PPN: | 514869879  |
Titel: | By the numbers : numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis |
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Erschienen: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024 |
Vertrieb: | Oxford : Oxford University Press |
Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource : Illustrations. |
Serie: | Oxford scholarship online |
Anmerkung: | Also issued in print: 2024 Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-760881-4 ; 978-0-19-760877-7 |
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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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