Jessica Marie Otis

By the Numbers (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

During the sixteenth and seventeenth 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 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 practice and education. Ordinary English people began to use numbers and quantification to explain abstract phenomena as diverse as the relativity of time, the probability of chance events, and the constitution of human populations. These changes reflected their participation in broader early modern European cultural and intellectual developments such as the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. By the eighteenth century, English men and women still believed they lived in a world made by God, but it was also a world made--and made understandable--by numbers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197608791
• Artikelnr.: 69529801

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