Miscellanea curiosaContaining a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age; being the most valuable discourses, read and delivered to the Royal Society, for the advancement of physical and mathematical knowledgeAs also a collection of curious travels, voyages, antiquities, and natural histories of countries; presented to the same society . w; with an Attempt to afcer-tain the Price of Annuities uponLives. By Mr. E. Halley\ THE Contemplation of the Mortality ofMankind, has befides the Moral, its Phyfi-cal and Political Ufes,
Miscellanea curiosaContaining a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age; being the most valuable discourses, read and delivered to the Royal Society, for the advancement of physical and mathematical knowledgeAs also a collection of curious travels, voyages, antiquities, and natural histories of countries; presented to the same society . w; with an Attempt to afcer-tain the Price of Annuities uponLives. By Mr. E. Halley\ THE Contemplation of the Mortality ofMankind, has befides the Moral, its Phyfi-cal and Political Ufes, both which have beenfome Years fince moft judicioufly conftderd bythe Curious Sir Hilliam Petty, in his Natural andpolitical Obferyations on the Bills of Mortalityof London, ownd by Captain John Graunt:And flnce in a like Treatife on the Bills of Mor-tality of Dublin. But the Deduction from thofeBills of Mortality feemed even to their Authorsto be defective : Firft, In that the Number ofthe People was wanting. Secondly, That theAges of the People dying was ^not to be Laftly, That both London and Dublin, byreafon of the great and cafual Acceffion of Stran-gers who die therein, (as appeared in both, bythe great Excefs of the Funerals above the Births)rendred them incapable of being Standards forthis purpofe ; which requires, if it were poffible,that the People we treat of, fliould not at all be. Hate 3.
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