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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 |
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. |
DOI: | doi:10.1093/oso/9780197608777.001.0001 |
URL: | Resolving-System: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197608777.001.0001 |
| DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197608777.001.0001 |
Datenträger: | Online-Ressource |
Sprache: | eng |
Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe |
Sach-SW: | Society |
| Sociology & anthropology |
K10plus-PPN: | 1878775006 |
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Lokale URL UB: | Zum Volltext |
978-0-19-760881-4
By the numbers / Otis, Jessica Marie [VerfasserIn]; 2024 (Online-Ressource)
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