See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

ROBERT See also:

• ROBERT RECORDE (c. 1510-1558)

RECORDE (c. 1510-1558)  , Welsh physician and mathematician, was descended from a respectable See also:

• FAMILY

family of See also:

• TENBY

Tenby in See also:

• WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales . He entered the university of See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford about 1525, and was elected See also:

• FELLOW

fellow of All Souls' See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College in 1531 . Having adopted See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine as a profession, he went to See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, where he took the degree of M.D. in 1545 . He afterwards returned to Oxford, where he publicly taught See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics, as he had done See also:

• PRIOR (from Lat. prior—former, and hence superior, through O. Fr. priour)
• PRIOR, MATTHEW (1664-1721)

prior to his going to Cambridge . It appears that he afterwards went to See also:

• LONDON

London, and acted as physician to See also:

• EDWARD

Edward VI. and to See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary, to whom some of his books are dedicated . He died in the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King's See also:

• BENCH (an O.E. and Eng. form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Bank, Dan. baenk and the Eng. doublet " bank ")

Bench See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison, See also:

• SOUTHWARK

Southwark, where he was See also:

• CON

con-fined for See also:

• DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt, in 1558 . See also:

• RECORDE, ROBERT (c. 1510-1558)

Recorde published several See also:

• WORKS

works upon mathematical subjects, chiefly in the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

• DIALOGUE

dialogue between See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master and See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, viz.:—The Grounde of Artes, teachings the Worke and Practise of Arithmeticke, both in whole See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers and fractions (1540); The Pathway to Knowledge, containing the First Principles of See also:

• GEOMETRY

Geometry . bothe for the use of Instrumentes Geometricall and Astronomicall, and also for See also:

• PROJECTION

Projection of Plattes (London, 1551) ; The See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

Castle of Know-ledge, containing the Explication of the See also:

• SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

Sphere both Celestiall and Materiall, &c . (London, 1556) ; The See also:

• WHETSTONE, GEORGE (1544?-1587?)

Whetstone of See also:

• WITTE, SERGE JULIEVICH, COUNT (1849— )

Witte, which is the second See also:

• PART

part of Arithmetike, containing the Extraction of Rootes, the Cossike Practice, with the Rules of See also:

• EQUATION (from Lat. aequatio, aequare, to equalize)

Equation, and the Woorkes of Surde Numbers (London, 1557) . This was the first See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• BOOK

book on See also:

• ALGEBRA (from the Arab. al-jebr wa'l-mugabala, transposition and removal [of terms of an equation], the name of a treatise by Mahommed ben Musa al-Khwarizmi)

algebra . He wrote also a medical See also:

• WORK

work, The Urinal of Physic (1548), frequently reprinted . 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
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

State temporum .

Recorde's See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief contributions to the progress of algebra were in the way of systematizing its notation (see ALGEBRA, See also:

• HISTORY

History) .