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between Hobbes andWallis
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999); Matthew L. Jones,
The
Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation ofVirtue
(Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2006); Helena M. Pycior,
Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric
Entanglements: British Algebra through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick
(Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
22. Albanese, “ Social Formation. ” Elsewhere, Albanese calls early modern mathematics “ a new
cultural dominant” (259).
23. Cuthbert Tunstall,
De arte supputandi libri quattuor
(London: Richard Pynson, 1522); English
translations from Charles Sturge,
Cuthbert Tunstall: Churchman, Scholar, Statesman, Administrator
(London: Longmans, Green, 1938), 71-78.
24. It is also true, though, that a book worth reading is itself a valuable commodity that may
be produced, priced, marketed, and sold with the aid of the mathematical techniques taught
therein.
25. On the editions of
De arte supputandi
, see Sturge ' s Appendix XXVI.
26. Contra Albanese, “ Social Formation, ” 263 - 264. Tunstall ' s text has never been thoroughly
examined. There is important work to be done on it, including how it may preserve for print
culture the preceding, and largely lost, manuscript tradition of mathematics instruction.
27. A fifth text authored by Recorde has also survived, a traditional Galenic treatise on uros-
copy:
The Urinal of Physick
(London: Reyner Wolfe, 1547).
28. Robert Recorde,
The Whetstone of Wit
(London: John Kingston, 1557), B3r.
29. Robert Recorde,
The Castle of Knowledge
(London: Reyner Wolfe, 1556), A1r.
30. Robert Recorde,
The Ground of Artes
(London: Reyner Wolfe, 1552),Y7v-8r. I have expanded
speech headings.
31. This is Ralph Robinson's translation from 1551, in Thomas More,
Utopia
, ed. Richard Marius
(London: Dent, 1994), 26. More's original Latin: “Oues inquam uestrae, quae tam mites esse,
tamque, exigeo solent alo, nunc (uti fertur) tam edaces atque indomitae esse coeperunt, ut
homines deuorent ipsos, agros, domos, oppida uastent ac depopulentur”; Thomas More,
The
CompleteWorks of St. Thomas More
, vol. 4, ed. Edward Surtz and J. H. Hexter (New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 1963), 64-66.
