Het oudste gedrukte Nederlandse Rekenboekje en zijn vertalingen

Abstract

SUMMARY:In some Dutch arithmetics of the 16th century, f. e. in the Cijferbouck by the Bruges schoolmaster Adriaen vander Gucht (Bruges 1569), we clearly notice the influence of the first printed Dutch arithmetic: Die Maniere om te leeren cijffren na die rechte consten Algorismi (see Scientiarum historia, pp. 53-71). Of Die Maniere a French translation entitled La maniere pour aprendre a cyfrer et compter par plumes et gectz was published in 1529 at Antwerp. The first arithmetic printed in English : An Introduction for to lerne to recken with the pen (St. Albans 1537, London 1539, and several other editions) seems to be a translation and compilation of Die Maniere and of another French anonymous work : La vraye Maniere pour pprendre a Chiffrer et compter par plumes et gacts, printed in Lyon between 1530 and 1537.