Art of Calculation

DAVID GLIMP is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami. He is the author of Making Populations: Governing Cultural Reproduction in Early Modern England. MICHELLE R. WARREN is Associate Professor of French and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Miami. The author of History on the Edge: Excalibur and the Borders of Britain (1100-1300), coeditor of Postcolonial Moves, Medieval to Modern (Palgrave Macmillan), she is currently working on the French colonial epic.

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