By the numbers

• Verfasst von: Otis, Jessica Marie [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: By the numbers
• Titelzusatz: numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England
• Verf.angabe: Jessica Marie Otis
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• Illustrationen: illustrations.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: 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)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-760881-4
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197608777.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Society
• Sach-SW: Sociology & anthropology
• K10plus-PPN: 1878775006
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

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.