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First among Equals: Robert Recorde and Innovative Publishing in the Sixteenth Century
- Journal of Scholarly Publishing
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 43, Number 4, July 2012
- pp. 381-394
- 10.1353/scp.2012.0021
- Article
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Abstract
Publishing is going through a period of tremendous change. The same was true in the sixteenth century. This article explores how the publication of Robert Recorde's The Whetstone of Witte in 1557, in which the equals sign was used for the first time, serves, along with his other mathematical books, as a model for innovation.
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