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By the numbers : numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) QA141.2 .O85 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Otis, Jessica Marie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Numeracy--England--History--To 1500.
- Numeracy.
- Numeracy--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- x, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society and modes of thought. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and 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 and the increasing availability of printed books revolutionized modes of arithmetical education, upended the balance between the multiple symbolic systems used to express popular numeracy, and contributed to a wider transformation in numbers as a technology of knowledge"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. "Number, weight and measure" : numeracy in early modern England
- "The dyuers wittes of man" : the multiplicity and materiality of numbers
- "Finding out false reckonings" : trust and the function of numbers
- "Set them to the cyphering schoole" : reading, writing, and arithmetical education
- "According to our computation here" : quantifying time
- "It is oddes of many to one" : quantifying chance and risk
- "Davids arithmetick" : quantifying the people
- Epilogue. "Heau'ns great arithmetician" : living in a numerical world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-253) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Otis, Jessica Marie. By the numbers
- ISBN:
- 9780197608777
- 0197608779
- 9780197608784
- 0197608787
- OCLC:
- 1394973499
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