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| Named Person: | Gregory King; Gregory King |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John A Taylor |
| ISBN: | 0313313067 9780313313066 |
| OCLC Number: | 57208147 |
| Description: | x, 193 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preliminary remarks -- Mathematical probability and demographic prediction -- Gregory King : man of projects -- British empiricism and shop arithmetic -- Higher mathematics and seventeenth-century political economy -- Shop arithmetic, conversation, and projects -- Queen Anne's bounty -- Gregory King's methods of calculation -- What was political arithmetic, really? -- George Chalmers and the stagnation of political arithmetic -- Wobbles and perturbations. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of world history, no. 109 |
| Responsibility: | John A. Taylor. |
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