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The Pathway to Knowledge (Paperback)
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The first edition of Robert Recorde's The Pathway to Knowledge was
printed in London, at the sign of the Brazen Serpent, by Reynold
Wolfe in 1551. This book is the earliest work on geometry in the
English language and was used as a standard textbook well into the
middle of the seventeenth century. Recorde's prose is delightfully
rhythmical and his poetical phrasing perhaps made learning less of
a chore than otherwise for his studious readers. That he well knew
this book, although modelled after Euclid, was breaking new ground
is evidenced by his statement in the preface to the theorems: 'For
nother is there anie matter more straunge in the english tongue,
than this whereof never booke was written before now, in that
tongue, and therefore oughte to delite all them, that desire to
understand straunge matters, as most men commonlie doo'. Recorde
encountered an unexpected difficulty when setting out to teach
Euclidean geometry to English readers. He found that the English
language did not (at that time) have a sufficiency of technical
terms. But rather than use longstanding Latin or Greek words, he
invented his own English equivalents. So for example, obtuse angles
are 'blunt corners', an equilateral triangle is a 'threelike' and a
square is a 'likeside'. Unfortunately, Recorde's terminology was
not taken up and did not survive the passage of time. Hence
schoolchildren in geometry lessons today have to wrestle with
difficult Latin words like tangent, instead of Recorde's much more
homely and easily understood 'touch line'. The mathematical text
itself is extremely lucid in both exposition and diagrams,
proceeding from a list of definitions through forty-six
constructions and seventy-seven theorems. At the start of the
definitions is the statement that 'Geometry teacheth the drawyng,
measuring and proporcion of figures' and history produced no finer
or more eloquent tutor in the subject than Robert Recorde.
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Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2013 |
First published: |
2013 |
Authors: |
Robert Recorde
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
200 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4820-8238-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Mathematics >
Geometry >
General
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LSN: |
1-4820-8238-1 |
Barcode: |
9781482082388 |
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