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By the numbers : numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024

1 online resource : illustrations.

Englisch

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)

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978-0-19-760881-4 (ebook)

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1093/oso/9780197608777.001.0001

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LOC-SH: Numeracy -- History -- To 1500 -- England ; Numeration, Arabic -- History -- England ; Numeracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity

Society ; Sociology & anthropology

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.