Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
By the Numbers : Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England, Hardback Book

By the Numbers : Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England Hardback

Hardback

Out of stock

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.

Information

£71.00

Out of stock
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information