By the Numbers
Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 April 2024
- ISBN 9780197608784
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 160x226x27 mm
- Weight 386 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 black and white halftones 481
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Jessica Otis's brilliant study brings to light a hidden subterranean stream that runs beneath the surface reality of early modern England. By revealing the quiet growth and evolution of popular numeracy over the span of two centuries, Otis adds a new dimension to our understanding of every other aspect of this period.
Table of Contents:
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
