• John Graunt (24 April 1620 – 18 April 1674) has been regarded as the founder of demography. Graunt was one of the first demographers, and perhaps the first...
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    successful businesswoman with Coade stone John Graunt, founder of the science of demography Antonie van Leeuwenhoek John Spedan Lewis William McGregor (1846–1911)...
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  • (lawyer) Jørgen Pedersen Gram (actuary) Hermann Grassmann (school teacher) John Graunt (haberdasher) George Green (miller) Aubrey de Grey (gerontologist) André-Michel...
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    population's longevity. Tables have been created by demographers including John Graunt, Reed and Merrell, Keyfitz, and Greville. There are two types of life...
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    this figure, and the best contemporary count comes from the work of John Graunt (1620–1674), who was one of the earliest Fellows of the Royal Society...
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    publications by William Petty (and John Graunt), the general introduction to the life and work of Petty and Graunt, and the short introductions to the...
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  • Close Rolls, 35 Ed. 1. m6d Calendar of Patent Rolls, 13 Ed. 1.ml8d. Graunt, John; Petty, William (1662), Natural and political observations mentioned...
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    analysis. Petty's work in political arithmetic, along with the work of John Graunt, laid the foundation for modern census techniques. This work in statistical...
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  • Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV of France (d. 1660) 1620 – John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (d. 1674) 1706 – Giovanni Battista...
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    find the initial cause of the smallpox fever he researched and treated. John Graunt, a haberdasher and amateur statistician, published Natural and Political...
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