The Ground of Arts

Short description: English arithmetic textbook

The Ground of Arts

First edition title page

Author| Robert Recorde
Genre| Mathematics

Publication date

| 1614
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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Johnston, Stephen (2004). "Recorde, Robert (c.1512–1558)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23241. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23241. Retrieved 2012-01-26. (Subscription 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. 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). Edward Hatton. ed. Arithmetick, or, The ground of arts. London: J.H. for Charles Harper. https://books.google.com/books?id=i8NJomIVzlgC&pg=PA9.

## 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

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