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RECORDE, Robert (ca. 1510-1558). The Castle of Knowledge. London: Reginald Wolfe, 1556.
2o (255 x 172 mm). Allegorical woodcut title showing the Castle of Knowledge containing the figures of Urania and Fortuna, woodcut of two astronomers on a8v, large wooduct initial on A1r, numerous diagrams in text. (Title lightly browned and soiled, small hole patched slightly affecting image, some minor worming occasionally touching letters, final 8 leaves waterstained and damaged with slight loss of text, colophon leaf laid down renewing gutter margin, small rusthole on E1 touching letters.) 18th-century calf gilt, edges gilt (rear joint cracked, covers worn), quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Anthony Higgins (contemporary inscription on title-page "Anth: Higgins"); Nicholas Anderson (inscription on upper title-page margins dated 1599); Ripon College Church Library (bookplate).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of the earliest major English astronomical treatise. Recorde's treatise on the construction and use of the sphere is based chiefly on Ptolemy, Proclus, Sacrobosco, and Oronce Fine, but is more than a synthesis of these earlier writers. "He devoted considerable space to a critical examination of the standard authorities, offering corrections of textual errors in the Greek authors and suggesting that the mistakes of Sacrobosco and others were caused by their lack of knowledge of Greek" (DSB). It also includes the first favorable reference to the Copernican theory in English. In addition, The Castle of Knowledge is one of the earliest English books written completely in the vernacular to have been printed in roman type (see Goldschmidt, The Printed Book of the Renaissance, p. 25). Dibner, Heralds of Science 104; Smith, p. 253; STC 20796; Norman 1807.
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VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of the earliest major English astronomical treatise. Recorde's treatise on the construction and use of the sphere is based chiefly on Ptolemy, Proclus, Sacrobosco, and Oronce Fine, but is more than a synthesis of these earlier writers. "He devoted considerable space to a critical examination of the standard authorities, offering corrections of textual errors in the Greek authors and suggesting that the mistakes of Sacrobosco and others were caused by their lack of knowledge of Greek" (DSB). It also includes the first favorable reference to the Copernican theory in English. In addition, The Castle of Knowledge is one of the earliest English books written completely in the vernacular to have been printed in roman type (see Goldschmidt, The Printed Book of the Renaissance, p. 25). Dibner, Heralds of Science 104; Smith, p. 253; STC 20796; Norman 1807.