By the numbers numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England Numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England Otis, Jessica Marie creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History nyu 2024 2024 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (x, 264 pages). "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"-- 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. Jessica Marie Otis. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk-en Numeracy England History To 1500 Numeracy Religious aspects Christianity Numeracy Numeracy Religious aspects Christianity England Sociology & anthropology Society To 1500 fast QA141.2 .O85 2024 513 By the numbers Otis, Jessica Marie. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024] (DLC) 2023036452 9780197608814 0197608817 9780197608807 0197608809 9780197608791 0197608795 9780197608777 9780197608784 2023036453 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/55305 DLC 231001 20260318170122.4 in00005698846 eng