Toxophilus
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Toxophilus
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Toxophilus is a book about longbow archery by Roger Ascham, first published in London in 1545. Dedicated to King Henry VIII, it is the first book on archery written in English. Ascham was a keen archer and a lecturer at St John's College, Cambridge, and wrote Toxophilus or the Schole or Partitions of Shooting to defend archery against claims that it was a sport unbefitting a scholar. Toxophilus is written in the form of a dialogue between two characters, Philologus and Toxophilus, who is also a
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1545 book about archery by Roger Ascham
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