By the Numbers

Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvJessica Marie Otis,George Mason University) Otis, Jessica Marie (Assistant Professor of History and Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Assistant Professor of History and Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

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During the sixteenth and seventeenth 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 and 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 and the increasing availability of printed books revolutionized modes of arithmetical practice and education. Ordinary English people began to use numbers and quantification to explain abstract phenomena as diverse as the relativity of time, the probability of chance events, and the constitution of human populations. These changes reflected their participation in broader early modern European cultural and intellectual developments such as the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. By the eighteenth century, English men and women still believed they lived in a world made by God, but it was also a world made--and made understandable--by numbers.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-04-22
Mått226 x 160 x 27 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197608784

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AcknowledgmentsA Note on Style, Dating, Money, and ReferencesIntroduction "Number, Weight and Measure": Numeracy in Early Modern EnglandChapter 1 "The Dyuers Wittes of Man": The Multiplicity and Materiality of NumbersChapter 2 "Finding Out False Reckonings": Trust and the Function of NumbersChapter 3 "Set Them To the Cyphering Schoole": Reading, Writing, and Arithmetical EducationChapter 4 "According To Our Computation Here": Quantifying TimeChapter 5 "It is Odds of Many To One": Quantifying Chance and RiskChapter 6 "Davids Arithmetic": Quantifying the PeopleEpilogue "Heau'ns Great Arithmetician": Living in a Numerical WorldAppendix Marginalia in Arithmetic TextbooksNotesBibliographyIndex

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