Author: Jessica Marie Otis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197608779
Category : Numeracy
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"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"--
By the Numbers
Author: Jessica Marie Otis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197608779
Category : Numeracy
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"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"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197608779
Category : Numeracy
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"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"--
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, 1665-1882
Author: Henry Carrington Bolton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, 1665-1895
Author: Henry Carrington Bolton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals (1665 to 1882)
Author: Henry Carrington Bolton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Early English Books, 1641-1700
Author: University Microfilms International
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721011
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721011
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695: 1632-1663
Author: Anthony à Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Oxford Historical Society
Author: Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England)
Publisher:
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Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description