ISBN:
9780197608814
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
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Illustrations.
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
DDC:
303.48309410903
Keywords:
Numeracy History To 1500
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Numeration, Arabic History
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Numeracy Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Society
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Sociology & anthropology
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.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2024
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780197608777.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197608777.001.0001
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