Jessica Marie Otis (Assistant Professor of History and Director of

By the Numbers

Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

By the Numbers focuses the transformation of popular numerical practices in early modern England. It explores the material culture of popular numeracy, including how and why people began to use Arabic numerals, and analyzes how the print revolution changed the nature of English arithmetical education. It also demonstrates several of the ways that ordinary men and women began to use numbers and quantification to explain abstract phenomena in their everyday lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780197608784
• ISBN-10: 0197608787
• Artikelnr.: 68982057

Autorenporträt

Jessica Marie Otis is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* A Note on Style, Dating, Money, and References
* Introduction "Number, Weight and Measure": Numeracy in Early Modern
England
* Chapter 1 "The Dyuers Wittes of Man": The Multiplicity and
Materiality of Numbers
* Chapter 2 "Finding Out False Reckonings": Trust and the Function of
Numbers
* Chapter 3 "Set Them To the Cyphering Schoole": Reading, Writing, and
Arithmetical Education
* Chapter 4 "According To Our Computation Here": Quantifying Time
* Chapter 5 "It is Odds of Many To One": Quantifying Chance and Risk
* Chapter 6 "Davids Arithmetic": Quantifying the People
* Epilogue "Heau'ns Great Arithmetician": Living in a Numerical World
* Appendix Marginalia in Arithmetic Textbooks
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index