| Contents |
Introduction. "Number, weight and measure" : numeracy in early modern England -- "The dyuers wittes of man" : the multiplicity and materiality of numbers -- "Finding out false reckonings" : trust and the function of numbers -- "Set them to the cyphering schoole" : reading, writing, and arithmetical education -- "According to our computation here" : quantifying time -- "It is odds of many to one" : quantifying chance and risk -- "Davids arithmetic" : quantifying the people -- Epilogue. "Heau'ns great arithmetician" : living in a numerical world. |
| Abstract |
"During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society and modes of thought. 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 education, upended the balance between the multiple symbolic systems used to express popular numeracy, and contributed to a wider transformation in numbers as a technology of knowledge"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-253) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023036452 |
| ISBN | 9780197608777 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780197608784 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
