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Graunt's life table
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2016
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page 60 note * Graunt, John, Natural and Political Observations, 1st ed., 1662, p. 69. (I cite throughout this paper the edition by Willcox, W. F., Baltimore, 1939.)Google Scholar
page 60 note † Greenwood, M., Graunt and Petty, J.R.S.S. Vol. xci, Part I, p. 82 (1928).Google Scholar
page 60 note † W. F. Willcox, ed. of Graunt, pp. xi—xii, suggests that Petty did the experimenting.
page 60 note § In any case, as is shown later, the ⅔ fraction does not reproduce Petty's results.
page 60 note ǁ Ptoukha, M., John Graunt, fondateur de la démographie, Congrès International de la Population, Paris, 1937, Vol. 2, pp. 71–72.Google Scholar
page 61 note * I am prepared to argue on behalf of King as an outstanding demographer, but this is obviously not the place to do so.
page 61 note † In Treasury bundle T. 64/302.
page 63 note * Hull, C. H., The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, Cambridge, 1899, Vol. 1, pp. 144–145.Google Scholar
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