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The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science
came with accelerated calculators.
* Print assured the victory of numbers or visual position
early in the sixteenth century. By the later sixteenth century
the art of statistics was already growing. Dantzig writes (p.
16):
The late sixteenth century was the time when in Spain
figures were printed giving the population of provinces
and the population of towns. It was the time when the
Italians also began to take a serious interest in
population statistics in the making of censuses. It was
the period when in France a controversy was carried on
between Bodin and a certain Monsieur de Malestroict
concerning the relations of the quantity of money in