ISBN:
9780197608777
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 264 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48309410903
Keywords:
Society / ukslc
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Sociology & anthropology / thema
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Numeracy / England / History / To 1500
;
Numeration, Arabic / England / History
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Numeracy / Religious aspects / Christianity
Abstract:
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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