Books in the Scientists of Wales series

This authoritative biography of the Welsh man of science, William Robert Grove, places him at the heart of Victorian scientific culture.

This enthralling biography tells the complete story of one of Tudor England's most enigmatic figures. A Welshman born in Tenby, south Wales, c.1512, Robert Recorde was educated at both Oxford and Cambridge. This book, a detailed biography of this Tudor scholar, reviews the many facets of his astonishingly wide-ranging career and ultimately tragic life. It presents a richly detailed and fully rounded picture of Recorde the man, the university academic and theologian, the physician, the mathematician and astronomer, the antiquarian, and the writer of hugely successful textbooks. Crown appointments brought Recorde into conflict with the scheming Earl of Pembroke, and eventually set him at odds with Queen Mary I. As an intellectual out of his depth in political intrigue, beset by religious turmoil, Recorde eventually succumbed to the dangers that closed inexorably around him.

This book discusses the significance of Lhwyd's discoveries in the fields of botany, palaeontology, epigraphy, antiquarian studies and linguistics.The book places Lhwyd's contribution in the context of recent work in these fields.This book provides links to websites for readers to follow up for further study.