By the Numbers

By the Numbers

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

Otis, Jessica Marie

Oxford University Press Inc

04/2024

280

Mole

Inglês

9780197608784

15 a 20 dias

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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
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