• 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...
    15 KB (1,710 words) - 07:16, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Draper
    successful businesswoman with Coade stone John Graunt, founder of the science of demography Antonie van Leeuwenhoek John Spedan Lewis William McGregor (1846–1911)...
    4 KB (437 words) - 19:29, 2 March 2024
  • (lawyer) Jørgen Pedersen Gram (actuary) Hermann Grassmann (school teacher) John Graunt (haberdasher) George Green (miller) Aubrey de Grey (gerontologist) André-Michel...
    6 KB (513 words) - 22:42, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Life table
    population's longevity. Tables have been created by demographers including John Graunt, Reed and Merrell, Keyfitz, and Greville. There are two types of life...
    21 KB (2,610 words) - 13:11, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Petty
    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...
    38 KB (5,001 words) - 08:46, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Plague of London
    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...
    46 KB (6,369 words) - 13:20, 13 November 2024
  • Close Rolls, 35 Ed. 1. m6d Calendar of Patent Rolls, 13 Ed. 1.ml8d. Graunt, John; Petty, William (1662), Natural and political observations mentioned...
    13 KB (1,492 words) - 21:22, 6 September 2024
  • 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...
    3 KB (249 words) - 16:43, 16 June 2024
  • 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...
    42 KB (4,219 words) - 20:54, 8 October 2024
  • 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...
    7 KB (854 words) - 15:57, 9 October 2024
  • economic statistician", as Richard Stone calls him, came a generation after John Graunt and William Petty and continued their work. Their work was mainly published...
    10 KB (1,263 words) - 23:13, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Missing women
    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...
    68 KB (8,903 words) - 22:07, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Public health
    coursework and the nature and scope of a dissertation research project. John Graunt (1620–1674) was a British citizen scientist who laid the foundations...
    126 KB (14,412 words) - 12:59, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Life expectancy
    earliest documented work on life expectancy was done in the 1660s by John Graunt, Christiaan Huygens, and Lodewijck Huygens. The longest verified lifespan...
    110 KB (10,745 words) - 18:27, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Actuary
    risk management was being developed. In 1662, a London draper named John Graunt showed that there were predictable patterns of longevity and death in...
    61 KB (5,718 words) - 03:39, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Actuarial science
    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...
    33 KB (3,815 words) - 01:52, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty
    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...
    16 KB (1,572 words) - 16:39, 4 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Epidemiology
    find the initial cause of the smallpox fever he researched and treated. John Graunt, a haberdasher and amateur statistician, published Natural and Political...
    73 KB (8,616 words) - 06:58, 10 November 2024
  • 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...
    10 KB (1,117 words) - 20:03, 25 August 2024
  • 1650 – Simonds d'Ewes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1602) 1674 – John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (b. 1620) 1689 – George Jeffreys...
    42 KB (4,000 words) - 11:37, 4 October 2024
  • 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...
    11 KB (1,214 words) - 20:29, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1620
    April 21 – Salvatore Castiglione, Italian painter (d. 1676) April 24 – John Graunt, English demographer (d. 1674) May 3 – Bogusław Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian...
    24 KB (2,579 words) - 08:25, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ars Conjectandi
    quantified probability. In the field of statistics and applied probability, John Graunt published Natural and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality...
    31 KB (3,967 words) - 18:40, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Demography
    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...
    43 KB (5,053 words) - 23:56, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1662
    volumes in Latin). Milton, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town. John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, publishes statistical information...
    25 KB (3,090 words) - 12:45, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Spencer (1455–1522)
    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...
    7 KB (788 words) - 18:47, 30 August 2024
  • 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...
    63 KB (7,628 words) - 17:51, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sex-selective abortion
    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...
    147 KB (16,253 words) - 05:33, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Statistics
    of Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality by John Graunt. Early applications of statistical thinking revolved around the needs...
    77 KB (8,712 words) - 01:48, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wrocław
    fathers led to the use of their data for analysis of mortality, first by John Graunt and then, based on data provided to him by Breslau professor Caspar Neumann...
    190 KB (15,848 words) - 21:36, 13 November 2024