Book ID: CBB000500063

Naissance de la Mortalité: L'origine Politique de la Statistique et de la Démographie (2000)

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Le Bras, Hervé (Author)


Gallimard, Seuil


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: 371 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: French

Description Focuses on William Petty, John Graunt, and Graunt's book, Natural and Political Observations.


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Essay Review Martin, Olivier (2002) À propos des origines et enjeux de la démographie (XVIIème-XVIIIème siècles). Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines (pp. 189-199). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Razzell, Peter E.
Buck, Peter
Courgeau, Daniel
Deutsch, Helen
Endres, A. M.
Erkoreka, Anton
Journals
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Medical History
Social History of Medicine
British Journal for the History of Science
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Publishers
Caliban
Institut National d'Études Démographiques
Oxford University Press
University of Toronto Press
Concepts
Mortality
Vital statistics
Demography; population research
Public health
Plague
Mathematics
People
Petty, William
Graunt, John
Chadwick, Edwin
Davenant, Charles
Laplace, Pierre Simon
Pascal, Blaise
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
20th century, early
19th century
16th century
20th century
Places
England
Great Britain
London (England)
British Isles
Ireland
Germany
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