Tunstall

Cuthbert Tunstall

Born: 1474 in Hackforth, Yorkshire, England
Died: 18 Dec 1559 in Lambeth, London, England

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Tunstall was educated at Oxford, Cambridge and Padua and entered the Church, becoming Bishop of Durham in 1530. A conservative during the Reformation he was imprisoned in 1552 and deprived of his bishopric.

Reinstated the following year by Mary Tudor, Tunstall was deprived again in 1559 after refusing to swear the oath of supremacy under Elizabeth.

He wrote the first printed work published in England devoted exclusively to mathematics. It was an arithmetic book De arte supputandi libri quattuor (1522) based on Pacioli's Suma . Tunstall has the distinction of having the first printed edition of Euclid's Elements in Greek dedicated to him.

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Rice University, USA

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. C Sturge, Cuthbert Tunstall (New York, 1938). 
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