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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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford scholarship online
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| Further subjects: | B
Numeracy
History To 1500 (England)
B Sociology & anthropology B Numeration, Arabic History (England) B Numeracy Religious aspects Christianity B Society |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2024. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 15, 2023) |
| ISBN: | 0197608817 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197608777.001.0001 |