Robert Recorde, The Pathway to Knowledge (1551)
Date
1551
Author
Robert
Recorde
Note: 13/10/2005
Lexicon title
The definitions of the principles of Geometry
Book title
The pathway to Knowledg, Containing the First Principles of Geometrie, as they may moste aptly be applied vnto practise, bothe for vse of instrumentes Geometricall, and astronomicall and also for proiection of plattes in euerye kinde, and therefore much necessary for all sortes of men
Publication place
London
Publisher
Reynold Wolfe
Transcription source
Henry E. Huntington 12884; British Library; EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
mathematics
Summary
"The first booke declareth the definitions of the termes and names vsed in Geometry, with certaine of the chiefe grounds whereon the arte is founded. And then teacheth those conclusions, which may serue diuersely in al workes Geometricall" (¶ 1v)
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
A1r-C1r (17)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 113
sample: Geometry Teacheth the drawyng, Measuring and proportion of figures.
number: 113
sample: Geometry Teacheth the drawyng, Measuring and proportion of figures.
Schafer
1551 R
STC
20812
Other editions
1574: STC 20813;
1602: STC 20814
1602: STC 20814
Facsimiles
Recorde, Robert. The Pathway to Knowledg . Norwood, NJ, and Amsterdam: Walter Johnson / Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1974.
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Criticisms
Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14.
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Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 114. view record
Hüllen, Werner. English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 154-57. view record
Johnson, Francis R., and Sanford V. Larkey. "Robert Recorde's Mathematical Teaching and the Anti-Aristotelian Movement." Huntington Library Bulletin 7 (1935): 59-87. view record
Lloyd, Howell A. "`Famous in the Field of Number and Measure': Robert Recorde, Renaissance Mathematician." Welsh History Review 20 (2000): 254-82. view record
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 114. view record
Hüllen, Werner. English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 154-57. view record
Johnson, Francis R., and Sanford V. Larkey. "Robert Recorde's Mathematical Teaching and the Anti-Aristotelian Movement." Huntington Library Bulletin 7 (1935): 59-87. view record
Lloyd, Howell A. "`Famous in the Field of Number and Measure': Robert Recorde, Renaissance Mathematician." Welsh History Review 20 (2000): 254-82. view record
