By the numbers: numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England

During the 16 & 17th centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men & women believed that God had made humans universally numerate, although numbers were not cent...

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1. Verfasser: Otis, Jessica Marie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:Oxford scholarship online
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Zusammenfassung:During the 16 & 17th centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men & women believed that God had made humans universally numerate, although numbers were not central to their everyday lives. Over the next two centuries, rising literacy rates & the increasing availability of printed books revolutionized modes of arithmetical practice & education. Ordinary English people began to use numbers & quantification to explain abstract phenomena as diverse as the relativity of time, the probability of chance events, & the constitution of human populations. These changes reflected their participation in broader early modern European cultural & intellectual developments such as the Reformation & the Scientific Revolution
Beschreibung:Also issued in print: 2024. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 264 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780197608814
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197608777.001.0001

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