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Thomas Blundeville (c. 1522 – c. 1606) was an English humanist writer and mathematician. He is known for work on logic, astronomy, education and horsemanship, as well as for translations from the Italian. His interests were both wide-ranging and directed towards practical ends, and he adapted freely a number of the works he translated. Henry S. Turner writes that He was a pioneer writer in English in several areas, and inventor of a standard classroom geometrical instrument, the protractor. ==Life== He lived as a country gentleman on his estate at Newton Flotman, in Norfolk. He inherited from his father Edward Blundeville in 1568, having possibly studied at the University of Cambridge. He had connections with court circles, and London scientific intellectuals. He was an associate of Henry Briggs, at Gresham College, and enjoyed the patronage of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, among other aristocrats.〔Christopher Hill, ''Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, Revisited'' (1997), p. 36.〕 Other indications on his life are more tenuous. It has been plausibly suggested that as "T. B." he added a prefatory poem to John Studley's ''Agamemnon'';〔 〕 he was certainly alluded to by Jasper Heywood, in the preface to his ''Thyestes'' of 1560, as a translator of Plutarch.〔 From this it is argued that he had connection to the Inns of Court. He may have travelled to Italy, an inference from his familiarity with Italian literature. He was a mathematics tutor, to households including that of Nicholas Bacon and Francis Wyndham; and Cecil may have recommended Blundeville to Leicester.〔Henry S. Turner, ''The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580–1630'' (2006), pp. 56–7.〕〔http://www.shpltd.co.uk/neal-rhetoric.pdf, reading Francis Wyndham, dedicatee of ''Briefe Description of Universal Mappes'' per the DNB, for "Justice Windham".〕 W. W. Rouse Ball gives a date of death of 1595, and possible connections to mathematicians: "Thomas Blundeville was resident at Cambridge about the same time as Dee and Digges—possibly he was a non-collegiate student, and if so must have been one of the last of them."〔W. W. Rouse Ball, ''A history of the study of mathematics at Cambridge'' (1889), pp. 21–2, (online text ).〕 He married twice, and his male heir Andrew was killed in the Flemish wars.〔 His daughter Elizabeth married Rowland Meyrick, son of Sir Gelli Meyrick who was steward to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and caught up in his fall.〔John Burke, ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1836), p. 634.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Blundeville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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