Arts of calculation : numerical thought in early modern Europe / edited by David Glimp and Michelle Warren.

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Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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245 0 0 |a Arts of calculation :  |b numerical thought in early modern Europe /  |c edited by David Glimp and Michelle Warren. 
260 |a New York :  |b Palgrave Macmillan,  |c 2004. 
300 |a xxix, 255 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 22 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |t Introduction /  |r David Glimp and Michelle R. Warren --  |g 1.  |t Money and administrative calculation as reflected in scholastic natural philosophy /  |r Joel Kaye --  |g 2.  |t What does an escudo buy? : gold and money in Francisco de Quevedo's sonnet "To gold ..." /  |r Alina Sokol --  |g 3.  |t The three-dimensional self : geometry, melancholy, drama /  |r Carla Mazzio --  |g 4.  |t Clavius's number and its early modern afterlife /  |r Christopher Johnson --  |g 5.  |t Fontenelle's calculus : the cultural politics of mathematics in Louis XIV's France /  |r J. B. Shank --  |g 6.  |t Hobbes and the premodern geometry of modern political thought /  |r Gordon Hull --  |g 7.  |t Calculating humans : mathematics, war, and the colonial calculus /  |r Timothy J. Reiss --  |g 8.  |t Killing by computation : military mathematics, the Elizabethan social body, and Marlowe's Tamburlaine /  |r Patricia Cahill --  |g 9.  |t Accounting for generosity : Anton de Montoro's poetic invoicing /  |r Benjamin Liu --  |g 10.  |t Crooked figures : zero and Hindu-Arabic notation in Shakespeare's Henry V /  |r Eugene Ostashevsky --  |g 11.  |t Binary as transcultural technology : Leibniz, Mathesis Universalis, and the Yijing /  |r Robert Batchelor. 
520 1 |a "Though the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have long been recognized as watershed moments of scientific discovery in Western Europe, recent work in "historical epistemology" has underscored the complexity and unevenness of the transition from older to newer forms of knowing and acting upon the world. Building on these insights, the essays that make up Arts of Calculation extend our understanding of how people come to count - how numbers create forms of agency, objects of inquiry, and kinds of cultural authority. This multidisciplinary collection traces a convergence of numerical thought across disciplinary and national boundaries."--BOOK JACKET. 
650 0 |a Mathematics  |x Social aspects  |z Europe  |x History. 
650 0 |a Numeration  |x Social aspects. 
700 1 |a Glimp, David. 
700 1 |a Warren, Michelle R.,  |d 1967- 
991 |a 2004-06-21 
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