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ROBERT See also: family of See also: Tenby in See also: Wales
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He entered the university of See also: Oxford about 1525, and was elected See also: fellow of All Souls' See also: College in 1531
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Having adopted See also: medicine as a profession, he went to Cambridge, where he took the degree of M.D. in 1545
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He afterwards returned to Oxford, where he publicly taught See also: mathematics, as he had done See also: prior to his going to Cambridge
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It appears that he afterwards went to See also: London, and acted as physician to See also: Edward VI. and to See also: Queen Mary, to whom some of his books are dedicated
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He died in the See also: King's Bench prison,
See also: Southwark, where he was See also: con-fined for See also: debt, in 1558
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See also: Recorde published several See also: works upon mathematical subjects, chiefly in the See also: form of See also: dialogue between master and See also: scholar, viz.:—The Grounde of Artes, teachings the Worke and Practise of Arithmeticke, both in whole numbers and fractions (1540); The Pathway to Knowledge, containing the First Principles of See also: Geometry
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bothe for the use of Instrumentes Geometricall and Astronomicall, and also for See also: Projection of Plattes (London, 1551) ; The See also: Castle of Know-ledge, containing the Explication of the Sphere both Celestiall and Materiall, &c
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(London, 1556) ; The See also: Whetstone of Witte, which is the second See also: part of Arithmetike, containing the Extraction of Rootes, the Cossike Practice, with the Rules of Equation, and the Woorkes of Surde Numbers (London, 1557)
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This was the first See also: English See also: book on algebra
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He wrote also a medical See also: work, The Urinal of Physic (1548), frequently reprinted
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Sherburne states that Recorde also published Cosmographiae isagoge, and that he wrote a book De Arte faciendi Horologium and another De Usu Globorum et de See also: State temporum
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Recorde's chief contributions to the progress of algebra were in the way of systematizing its notation (see ALGEBRA,See also: History)
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