Artigo Revisado por pares

Robert Recorde's Whetstone of witte, 1557

1957; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; Volume: 50; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5951/mt.50.4.0258

ISSN

2330-0582

Autores

Vera Sanford,

Tópico(s)

Historical Studies of British Isles

Resumo

There is little that is original in the content of Robert Recorde's Whetstone of witte. Yet this book contains the “pair of twin paralleles of one lengthe” which Recorde used to mean “is equalle to.” This was his own invention

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