Robert Recorde

The enthralling biography of Robert Recorde, Tudor physician, mathematician, and learned savant.

This enthralling biography tells the complete story of one of Tudor England’s most enigmatic figures. A Welshman born in Tenby, south Wales, c.1512, Robert Recorde was educated at both Oxford and Cambridge. This book, a detailed biography of this Tudor scholar, reviews the many facets of his astonishingly wide-ranging career and ultimately tragic life. It presents a richly detailed and fully rounded picture of Recorde the man, the university academic and theologian, the physician, the mathematician and astronomer, the antiquarian, and the writer of hugely successful textbooks. Crown appointments brought Recorde into conflict with the scheming Earl of Pembroke, and eventually set him at odds with Queen Mary I. As an intellectual out of his depth in political intrigue, beset by religious turmoil, Recorde eventually succumbed to the dangers that closed inexorably around him.

Author’s Forward and AcknowledgmentsPrologueChapter 01 – Child of TenbyChapter 02 – Oxford ScholarChapter 03 – Cambridge SavantChapter 04 – Such is Your AuthorityChapter 05 – St Paul’s ChurchyardChapter 06 – Doctor RecordeChapter 07 – Antiquarian and MathematicianChapter 08 – No Mean DivineChapter 09 – Comptroller of the King’s MintsChapter 10 – The Muscovy CompanyChapter 11 – This Talk Delights Me MarvellouslyChapter 12 – Pedagogue and PoetChapter 13 – Surveyor of the Mines and MoniesChapter 14 – NemesisChapter 15 – A Heart So OppressedChapter 16 – An Unquiet MindChapter 17 – One of His Elect in GloryEpilogue