The Ground of Arts

The Ground of Arts

Robert Recorde's Arithmetic: or, The Ground of Arts was one of the first printed English textbooks on arithmetic and the most popular of its time. The Ground of Arts appeared in London in 1543, ^[1] and it was reprinted around 45 more editions until 1700. ^[1] Editors and contributors of new sections included John Dee, John Mellis, Robert Hartwell, Thomas Willsford, and finally Edward Hatton.

The text is in the format of a dialogue between master and student to facilitate learning arithmetic without a teacher.

References

1. Johnston, Stephen (2004). "Recorde, Robert (c.1512–1558)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23241 . Retrieved 26 January 2012.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

• Bregman, Alvan (1 July 2005). "Alligation Alternate and the Composition of Medicines: Arithmetic and Medicine in Early Modern England". Med. Hist. 49 (3): 299–320. doi:10.1017/s0025727300008899. PMC   1172291 . PMID   16092789.
• Karpinski, Louis (1925). The history of arithmetic. Rand McNally. LCC   QA21.K3.
• Recorde, Robert (1543). The Grounde of Artes. London: Reynold Wolff. LCC   QA33.R3 1542a.
• Recorde, Robert (1699) [1543]. Edward Hatton (ed.). Arithmetick, or, The ground of arts. London: J.H. for Charles Harper.

Further reading

• John Denniss & Fenny Smith, "Robert Recorde and his remarkable Arithmetic", pages 25 to 38 in Gareth Roberts & Fenny Smith (editors) (2012) Robert Recorde: The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician, Cardiff: University of Wales Press ISBN   978-0-7083-2526-1