Richard Benese (14..-1546)
Arsmetrie, or the Art of numbring:
printed in an old black letter about Henry VIII. The author’s name I doe not remember—quaere in Duck lane.
The next old mathematicall booke in English that I have seen hath this title, viz:—
This booke sheweth the manner of measuring of all manner of land, as well of woodland as of lande in the felde, and comptinge the true nombre of acres of the same.
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Newlye invented and compiled by Syr Rycharde Benese, chanon of Marton Abbay besyde London.
¶ Printed in Southwarke in Saint Thomas hospital by me James Nicolson.
’Tis a quarto.
: quaere Absolom Leech for it—’tis about physick.
Notes
370I did see, many yeares since, in a countrey-man’s house, a little booke in 8vo in English, called
371This Sir Richard Benese was also author of a little booke, in 8vo, called....