Fale matriculated as a sizar of Caius College, Cambridge, in November 1578, removed to Corpus Christi College in 1582, went out B.A.
in 1597, and in 1604 had a license from the university to practise medicine.
[2] It is dedicated in Latin to all lovers of mathematics in the University of Cambridge.
There is also a prefatory letter to 'my loving kinsman,’ Thomas Osborne, who had invented the instrument mentioned in the beginning of the book 'for the triall of plats,’ dated from London, 3 January 1593.
The table of sines which it contains is probably the earliest specimen of a trigonometrical table printed in England.