Format:
1 online resource
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9780197608814
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
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.
Note:
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)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780197608777
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780197608777
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780197608777.001.0001
