• 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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    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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  • (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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    advance came in 1662 from a London draper, the father of demography, John Graunt, who showed that there were predictable patterns of longevity and death...
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    Journal of Demography, Vol. 9, No. 1 (June 2004), page 95 RB Campbell, John Graunt, John Arbuthnott, and the human sex ratio, Hum Biol. 2001 Aug;73(4):605-610...
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  • hence it would also be meaningless to ship coals there. In 1661–1662, John Graunt, in his work on the Bills of Mortality for London (published by the Royal...
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  • disease. Epidemiology entered a more systematic phase with the work of John Graunt, who in 1662 tried to quantify mortality in London using a statistical...
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    coursework and the nature and scope of a dissertation research project. John Graunt (1620–1674) was a British citizen scientist who laid the foundations...
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    risk management was being developed. In 1662, a London draper named John Graunt showed that there were predictable patterns of longevity and death in...
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    quantified probability. In the field of statistics and applied probability, John Graunt published Natural and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality...
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    earliest documented work on life expectancy was done in the 1660s by John Graunt, Christiaan Huygens, and Lodewijck Huygens. The longest verified lifespan...
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  • 1650 – Simonds d'Ewes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1602) 1674 – John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (b. 1620) 1689 – George Jeffreys...
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  • Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality. By Capt. John Graunt. The Fifth Edition. London, 1676. p. 314-345 Sir William Petty's Quantulumcunque...
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    Demography. 9 (1): 91–96. JSTOR 20853265. Campbell RB (August 2001). "John Graunt, John Arbuthnott, and the human sex ratio". Human Biology. 73 (4): 605–610...
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  • Physico-Mechanicall, Touching The Spring of the Air, and its Effects (Oxford). John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, publishes information about...
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    and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality (1662) by John Graunt, which contains a primitive form of life table. Among the study's findings...
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  • to this science. The birth of statistics is often dated to 1662, when John Graunt, along with William Petty, developed early human statistical and census...
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    of Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality by John Graunt. Early applications of statistical thinking revolved around the needs...
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    of the life-table for Breslau, which followed more primitive work by John Graunt, is now seen as a major event in the history of demography. The Royal...
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    case was in 17th-century London, where the first proper demographer, John Graunt, failed by just five years to see the last recorded death from plague...
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  • Spencer was the son of John Spencer of Hodnell and Wormleighton, Warwickshire, and Althorp, Northamptonshire, and his wife, Isabella Graunt. In the parish church...
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    St. John the Baptist and the Spencer coat of arms, now in a south window of the chancel, in memory of his father. Spencer married Isabella Graunt, daughter...
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  • first scientist who systematically tried to quantify causes of death was John Graunt in his book Natural and Political Observations made upon the Bills of...
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