By the numbers: numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England
"During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society and modes of thought. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women believed that God had made humans universally num...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
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British & Irish history
B MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy B 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.) B HIS015030 B Social & Cultural History B 16. Jahrhundert (1500 bis 1599 n. Chr.) B 1500 to c 1700 / Early modern history: c 1450 B Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte B MATHEMATICS / Arithmetic B Numeracy (England) History To 1500 B Numeracy Religious aspects Christianity B Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein B Europäische Geschichte B Literary studies: general |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Otis, Jessica Marie: By the numbers. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]. - 9780197608807 |
| Summary: | "During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society and modes of thought. 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 education, upended the balance between the multiple symbolic systems used to express popular numeracy, and contributed to a wider transformation in numbers as a technology of knowledge"-- 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0197608779 |