Robert Recorde, Record's Arithmetic (1615)

Date

1615

Author

Robert Record(alternate name for Robert Recorde ) Note: 13/10/2005
Robert Norton Note: 12/10/2005
John Mellis

Lexicon title

A briefe additioon of Interest. Definitions of Interest

Book title

Records Arithmeticke: Contayning the ground of Arts: In which is taught the generall parts, rules, and operations, of the same in whole Numbers and Fractions, after a more easie and exact methode then euer heretofore: First written by Robert Record, Doctor in Phisicke. Since corrected and beautified by many Notations, and augmented with most briefe rules of practise and others; necessarie in the trade of Merchandise. Whereunto is added certaine Tables of the valuation of all Coynes as they are currant at this present time, with diuers other Tables and their explication. Very profitable and delightfull vnto all Marchants, Gentlemen, and others, as by the contents of this booke doth appeare. By Iohn Mellis. Also the Art and application of Decimall Arithmeticke: A Table of Board and Timber measure, and the vse thereof. The Extraction and Demonstration of the Square and Cubicke roots, with necessary Questions and Tables for interest after ten in the hundreth is newly therevnto adioyned

Publication place

London

Printer

Thomas Snodham

Publisher

Roger Jackson

Transcription source

Henry E. Huntington 21808

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

mathematics

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

578-80

Word-group

type: topical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: PRincipal, is the summe from which the interest is reckoned. (p. 578)

Schafer

1615 N

STC

20806.5

Other editions

1646: Wing R640;
1648: Wing R642, -42a;
1652: Wing R643;
1654: Wing R644;
1658: Wing R645;
1662: Wing R646;
1668: Wing R647;
1673: Wing R648