01324nam a2200241Ia 4500 CTU_116395 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 902000 510.22 G559 Glimp, David Arts of calculation : Quantifying thought in early modern Europe Edited by David Glimp, Michelle R. Warren New York Palgrave Macmillan 2004 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 powerful convergence of numerical thought across disciplinary and national boundaries. Mathematics,Numeration History,Social aspect,Social aspects Europe Hiếu Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ