By the numbers : numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197608814Subject(s): Numeracy -- England -- History -- To 1500 | Numeration, Arabic -- England -- History | Numeracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Society | Sociology & anthropologyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197608777DDC classification: 303.48309410903 LOC classification: QA141.2 | .O85 2024Online resources: Oxford Academic 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.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Also issued in print: 2024.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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