Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687 / 2008-07-04 00:00:00

EBOOK, MANKIND AND POLITICAL ARITHMETIC ***


Transcribed from the Cassell & Co. edition by David Price, email
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ESSAYS ON MANKIND AND POLITICAL ARITHMETIC


Contents:
Introduction (by Henry Morley)
Another Essays
The stationer to the reader
The principal points of this discourse
Of the growth of the city of London
Further observation upon the Dublin bills
The stationer to the reader
A postscript to the stationer
Two essays in political arithmetic
To the king's most excellent majesty
An essay in political arithmetic
Five essays in political arithmetic
The first essay
The second essay
The third essay.
The fourth essay
The fifth essay
Of the people of England (by Gregory King)

INTRODUCTION.

William Petty, born on the 26th of May, 1623, was the son of a
clothier at Romsey in Hampshire. After education at the Romsey
Grammar School, he continued his studies at Caen in Normandy. There
he supported himself by a little trade while learning French, and
advancing his knowledge of Greek, Latin, Mathematics, and much else
that belonged to his idea of a liberal education. His idea was
large. He came back to England, and had for a short time a place in
the Navy; but at the age of twenty he went abroad again, and was
away three years, studying actively at Utrecht, Leyden, and
Amsterdam, and also in Paris. In Paris he assisted Thomas Hobbes in
drawing diagrams for his treatise on optics.
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