Mr. Aecroid’s Tables: Economic Calculations and Social Customs in the Early Modern Countryside
In the 1610s and 1620s, a new computational technology took hold in England: printed mathematical tables for compound interest and discounting (“present value”) problems. Historians of finance and accounting have long recognized these paper tools as predecessors of essential modern techniques like “...
Main Author: | Deringer, William |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society |
Format: | Article |
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University of Chicago Press
2024
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153931 |
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