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Renaissance men and women was transformed to the extent that more of them than ever before came to understand reality, and fundamental reality at that, in terms of uniformly measurable quanta. That process, hesitant enough at the time, tortuous and imperfect subsequently, has none the less informed the modernization of the western world, has induced-ultimately-that world's secularization, and meanwhile has facilitated its expansion over the globe and, by now, beyond. Little understood, it is a process which relies upon the work of teachers of mathematics; and it flourishes in the hands of those responsive to change and development not only in their own subject, but also in cognate disciplines. This said, and having called upon R. T. Jenkins for the first word, we may properly return to him for the last on our Renaissance man, physician, Protestant, commonwealthman, would-be reformer of the coinage and so much else: 'Gweddus hefyd yw cofio am Robert Recorde o Sir Benfro, a wnaeth enw mawr iddo'i hun ym meysydd rhif a mesur'.91 Let that portentous summation stand as a sufficient epitaph. HOWELL A. LLOYD Hull 91 'It is also appropriate to remember Robert Recorde from Pembrokeshire, who made himself a great name in the fields of number and measure' (see above, n.3).