By the Numbers - Jessica Marie (Assistant Professor of History and Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Otis - Bog

By the Numbers focuses the transformation of popular numerical practices in early modern England. It explores the material culture of popular numeracy, including how and why people began to use Arabic numerals, and analyzes how the print revolution changed the nature of English arithmetical education. It also demonstrates several of the ways that ordinary men and women began to use numbers and quantification to explain abstract phenomena in their everyday lives.