Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Wit (1557)
Date
12 November 1557
Author
Robert
Record(alternate name for
Robert
Recorde
)
Note: 13/10/2005
Book title
The whetstone of witte, whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike: containyng thextraction of Rootes: The Cossike practise, with the rule of Equation: and the woorkes of Surde Nombers
Publication place
London
Publisher
Iohn Kyngston
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
mathematics
Summary
Logical definitions in arithmetic
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Abstracte nombers are those, whiche haue no denomination annexed vnto them. And those that haue any denomination ioyned to theim, are called Contracte nombers. (a2v)
sample: Abstracte nombers are those, whiche haue no denomination annexed vnto them. And those that haue any denomination ioyned to theim, are called Contracte nombers. (a2v)
STC
20820
Other editions
1543-52: STC 20797.5, 20797.7, 20798, 20799.3 ("The grou[n]d of artes...");
1558: STC 20799.5;
1561: STC 20800 ("The grounde of artes...now of late ouerseen & augmented with new & necessarie additions");
1566-1575: STC 20800.2, 20800.4, 20800.6, 20800.8, 20801, 20801.3, 20801.7;
1582: STC 20802 ("The grounde of artes ... now lately diligently corrected & beautified with some newe rules and necessarie additions: and further endowed with a thirde part...whervnto are also added diuers tables & instructions");
1586-1610: STC 20802.5, 20803, 20803.5, 20804, 20804.3, 20804.7, 20805, 20806;
1615: STC 20806.5 ("Records arithmetike...corrected and beautified by many notations, and augmented...");
1618: STC 20807 ("The ground of arts...now diligently corrected, illustrated and inlarged...");
1623: STC 20808 ("The ground of arts...And now the second time diligently perused, corrected, illustrated and inlarged...");
1631-1640: STC 20808.8, 20809, 20810, 20811 ("The ground of arts");
1646?-73: Wing R641, R650, R642, R642A, R642B, R643, R643A, R644, R645, R646, R647, R648 ("Records arithmetick...";
1699: Wing R649 ("Arithmetick, or, The ground of arts...And now preused, corrected, new methodized, much improved; and thereto added...")
1558: STC 20799.5;
1561: STC 20800 ("The grounde of artes...now of late ouerseen & augmented with new & necessarie additions");
1566-1575: STC 20800.2, 20800.4, 20800.6, 20800.8, 20801, 20801.3, 20801.7;
1582: STC 20802 ("The grounde of artes ... now lately diligently corrected & beautified with some newe rules and necessarie additions: and further endowed with a thirde part...whervnto are also added diuers tables & instructions");
1586-1610: STC 20802.5, 20803, 20803.5, 20804, 20804.3, 20804.7, 20805, 20806;
1615: STC 20806.5 ("Records arithmetike...corrected and beautified by many notations, and augmented...");
1618: STC 20807 ("The ground of arts...now diligently corrected, illustrated and inlarged...");
1623: STC 20808 ("The ground of arts...And now the second time diligently perused, corrected, illustrated and inlarged...");
1631-1640: STC 20808.8, 20809, 20810, 20811 ("The ground of arts");
1646?-73: Wing R641, R650, R642, R642A, R642B, R643, R643A, R644, R645, R646, R647, R648 ("Records arithmetick...";
1699: Wing R649 ("Arithmetick, or, The ground of arts...And now preused, corrected, new methodized, much improved; and thereto added...")
Facsimiles
Recorde, Robert. The Whetstone of Witte. The English experience, no. 142. Amsterdam: Da Capo, 1969.
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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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Clarke, Frances Marguerite. "New Light on Robert Recorde." Isis 8.1, alt. no. 25 (1926): 50-70. view record
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 110. 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
Clarke, Frances Marguerite. "New Light on Robert Recorde." Isis 8.1, alt. no. 25 (1926): 50-70. view record
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 110. 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
