Arts of calculation : quantifying thought in early modern Europe

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Arts of calculation : quantifying thought in early modern Europe

edited by David Glimp and Michelle R. Warren

(Early modern cultural studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

1st ed

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Arts of calculation : numerical thought in early modern Europe

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The essays in this volume focus primarily on 16th and 17th century Europe and are broadly interdisciplinary. They answer questions such as: what kinds of cultural work do numbers do?; What roles does calculation play in colonial, imperial, and/or national projects or ideologies?; What are the relationships between aesthetic practices and bureaucratic modes of calculation (such as accounting, census taking, and demography)?; What kinds of agencies and subjectivities do numbers and numbering enable and foreclose?; How do different kinds of economic strategies (eg exchange, gift, capital, debt, interest) affect representational strategies and vice versa?; What cultural dynamics inform spatial measurements, such as cartagraphy?; and what do analyses of counting practices tell us about the production of knowledge more generally?

目次

  • PART I: GOVERNING NUMBERS Calculating Humans
  • T.Reiss Calculating Men
  • P.A.Cahill The Cultural Meaning of the Number Thirteen and the Liturgical Origins of Standardization
  • A.W.Ramsey Curiosity and Quantification in the Seventeenth-Century French Population Inquiries
  • R.Scafe PART II: MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE Renaissance Self-Fractioning
  • C.Mazzio Clavius's Number and its Early Modern Afterlife
  • C.Johnson Hobbes and the Pre-Modern Geometry of Modern Politics
  • G.Hull Mathamatics, Honnetete, and Political Power under the Sun King: The Case of Fontenelle
  • J.B.Shank PART III: ECONOMIES OF NUMBER Reflections of Bureaucratic Modes of Measurement in Medieval Natural Philosophy
  • J.Kaye Accounting for Generosity: Anton de Montoro's Poetic Invoicing
  • B.Liu The Commodification of Honor in Early Modern Spain: Francisco de Quevedo's 'To gold'
  • A.Sokol PART IV: TRANSCULTURAL EQUATIONS Crooked Figures: Hindu-Arabic Notation in Shakespeare's Henry V
  • E.Ostashevsky Hebrew and the Quatification of the Spoken Word
  • M.Saatjian Binary as Transcultural Technology: Liebnitz's Courting of the Kangxi Emperor
  • R.Batchelor

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