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Sign In or Create an Account. Sign In. Advanced Search. Search Menu. Article Navigation. Close mobile search navigation Article Navigation. Volume M ichael E. Consequently some historical episodes, such as ics. A touch of teleology no direct referent. The square of time, for example, is a is perhaps unavoidable in a book of such sweep, as his- meaningless expression that does not correspond to tory rarely offers us the clean breaks we would wish anything in the world.

But Galileo ultimately realized for. The implications were far-reaching: Previously the But there is no denying its power. After reading it, sci- purpose of knowledge had been to correctly assign ence, religion, and the origins of modernity will never words, and the things to which they correspond, to seem the same.

Reassessing the Radical ing temper was replaced by the quest for discovery. New York: Routledge, His narrative compellingly brings together such disparate themes as the evolution of alphabetic scripts, The Radical Enlightenment has been the topic of a great the abacus schools of medieval Europe, the discovery deal of analysis over the past forty years, but there is of linear perspective, and the Gregorian reform of the still no scholarly consensus about what it means.

Stef- calendar. Finally, with others, including each other. Harvey a deep seismic shift in the European cognitive terrain. Hobart looks for the origin of this difference in the work of Renaissance thinkers who invented a revolutionary mathematical system—relational numeracy.

By creating meaning through numbers and abstract symbols rather than words, relational numeracy allowed inquisitive minds to vault beyond the constraints of language and explore the natural world with a fresh interpretive vision. The Great Rift is the first book to examine the religion-science divide through the history of information technology.

Hobart follows numeracy as it emerged from the practical counting systems of merchants, the abstract notations of musicians, the linear perspective of artists, and the calendars and clocks of astronomers. Trouble signing in? Retrieve credentials. Sign Up. Because of math. Page Count: Publisher: Harvard Univ. Review Posted Online: April 24, No Comments Yet. Pub Date: Sept. Page Count: Publisher: Viking. Show comments. More by Robert Greene.