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	John Graunt Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		John Graunt (1620-1674) is considered by many historians to have founded the science of demography, the statistical study of human populations.
		John Graunt was born in London, England, on April 24, 1620, to Henry Graunt, a storekeeper in Hampshire, and his wife, Mary.
		Using this method Graunt was able to predict the number of persons who would survive to each successive age on his chart and the life expectancy of the groups from year to year.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-graunt (1421 words)

	John_Graunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		April 1674 in London) leistete einen erheblichen Beitrag zur systematischen Datenerfassung und Datenauswertung und gilt als ein wichtiger Wegbereiter der modernen Statistik.
		Graunt berechnete im Jahre 1662 die erste Sterbetafel und war damit einer der Begrunder der Demographie.
		Graunt, John Graunt, John Graunt, John Personendaten NAME Graunt, John ALTERNATIVNAMEN KURZBESCHREIBUNG Wegbereiter der modernen Statistik GEBURTSDATUM 24.
	www.news-from-newspapers.com /de/Wikipedia.org/2005/02/04/John_Graunt.html (64 words)

	Graunt, John: Encyclopedia of Public Health
		Graunt was interested in the fluctuations in epidemics, especially the plague, and how these caused the numbers of deaths, and the age at death, to vary from one year to another.
		Graunt influenced, and was influenced by, Sir William Petty (1623–1687), author of Political Arithmetic and other works that analyzed available facts in a number of areas, including life expectancy and earning capacity, emphasizing their economic and fiscal implications.
		Both deserve to be remembered, but of the two, John Graunt, though he had less formal education, was probably the more creative and innovative.
	health.enotes.com /public-health-encyclopedia/graunt-john (321 words)

	John_Graunt - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
		John Graunt (April 24,1620-April 18, 1674) was one of the first demographers, though by profession he was a haberdasher.
		Graunt died, reportedly of jaundice and liver disease, in April 1674 in London.
		Graunt is also considered as one of the first experts in Epidemiology, since his famous book was concerned mostly with public health statistics.
	www.thewordbook.com /John_Graunt (345 words)

	John Graunt's Life
		John Graunt was born between seven and eight o'clock, the morning of 24 April 1620, apparently the eldest of seven or eight children.
		He was a friend of the miniaturist Samuel Cooper and of the portrait painter John Hayls (Hales).
		John Graunt died 18 April 1674 of jaundice.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~stephan/Graunt/grauntbio.html (1080 words)

	PCGS - Queries
		I have heard that John Wells died in August of 1909, but there is an index on Ancestry that William Mayhall's paper, The Bowling Green Times reported his death the 21 of April 1909 in the April 29, 1909 issue.
		I understand from a lovely lady in AZ that "John was killed by a shotgun blast by a John Burgez" however we have been unable to find John's parents.
		John's daughter Elma was married to my grandfather James Monroe Hill (Ralls, I think)and died after the birth of my mother.
	www.pcgenweb.com /pcgs/queries/queries.htm (4620 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		His book Natural and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality (1662) used analysis of the mortality rolls in early modern London as Charles II and other officials attempted to create a system to warn of the onset and spread of bubonic plague in the city.
		The erudition of the Observations led Graunt to the Royal Society, where he presented his work and was subsequently elected a fellow.
		Chapter 7, John Graunt and the Observations upon the Bills of Mortality, 1662.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=John_Graunt (300 words)

	Famous Grants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From Brittania.com: "John Grant was the son of Thomas Grant of Norbrook and Alice Ruding.
		John Grant's part was to carry out a kidnapping in his part of the conspiracy.
		Born in London, John Graunt was an English statistician, generally considered to be the founder of the science of demography, the statistical study of human populations.
	www.clangrant-us.org /famous.htm (1174 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Graunt is known for his sole published work, his Observations on the bills of mortality, 1662, a work which first established the uniformity and predictability of many important biological phenomena when taken in large numbers-- such things as the greater number of female babies, the longer lifespans of females, the high mortality among infants.
		Note that Graunt was a prominent and influential man in London.
		Ian Sutherland, "John Graunt, a Tercentenary Tribute," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 126A (1963), 537-56.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/graunt.html (529 words)

	History of Science: Origins of Modern Probability Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Graunt's method, which provided figures for the number of survivors per decade, drew no significant probability conclusions from the study, but mathematicians were quick to use Graunt's data in applying theories of probability to life expectancy.
		Graunt's immediate successor in England was his contemporary William Petty (1623-1685), professor of anatomy at Oxford and a professor of music at Gresham College.
		Graunt's results from a study of birth statistics which revealed that more males were born than females were often used in defenses of the Argument from Design.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/darwin/sect4.htm (9704 words)

	gacetilla matematica John Graunt
		Fué John Graunt quien puso las bases de un estadística científica, realizando un trabajo a partir de las Tablas de Mortalidad de la ciudad de Londres.
		La obra alcanzó varias ediciones y Graunt nunca fue consciente de la importancia que tuvo.
		John Graunt murió de ictericia en 1674 y está enterrado en la iglesia de St. Dunstan.
	www.arrakis.es /~mcj/graunt.htm (648 words)

	John Graunt's Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From Aubrey's Brief Lives - biography by a friend of Graunt's
		Portrait of "John Graunt" - well, very nearly a portrait of him
		Portraits from Graunt's time - people mentioned at this site.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~stephan/Graunt/graunt.html (135 words)

	Keynes (1971) A bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the bills of mortality by John Graunt ...
		Keynes (1971) A bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the bills of mortality by John Graunt F.R.S
		A bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the bills of mortality by John Graunt F.R.S
		To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box.
	www.getcited.org /?PUB=101569542&showStat=Ratings (105 words)

	Keynote address: key issues in public health surveillance for the 1990s - speeches by Jaime Sepulveda, Malaquias ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Graunt and William Petty, his friend and junior by 3 years, are well remembered not only as pioneers of epidemiology and demography, but also for the application of numerical methods to the study of social phenomena.
		Graunt's famous book Natural and Political Observations made upon the Bills of Mortality was published in 1662--330 years ago.
		Graunt's pioneering mortality calculations were not based on this principle, but Petty was able to make extensive use of them as if they had, in fact, been life tables.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0906/is_nSUP_v41/ai_13827976 (908 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John Graunt (1620-1674) a London merchant haberdasher, was an amateur scientist, an early Fellow of the Royal Society.
		He was interested in the impact of epidemics, especially the plague, and how plague caused the numbers of deaths, and the age at death, to vary from one year to another.
		John Graunt demonstrated the importance of gathering facts in a systematic manner, to identify, characterize and classify health conditions of public health importance.
	www.pitt.edu /afshome/s/u/super1/public/html/lecture/lec12981/007.htm (151 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Living on the Edge
		John Graunt (Brad Rouse) examines the Bills of Mortality and compiles statistics which he believes will help combat the plague.
		Sir John is purportedly one who profits from others' misfortunes and yet his character is too loosely constructed to deal with this paradox.
		As Graunt puts in in his closing speech, "What Newton found [on vacation during the plague]: the world would fly to pieces, but for a great force, a power in every single body in the world, which pulls it ceaselessly toward every other body." Unfortunately, not even Newtonian physics can hold the play together.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=239453 (821 words)

	Unit One: Cancer Registration/A Brief History
		Around 1665 a London businessman, John Graunt, created medical history by subjecting decades of mortality data to critical and mathematical analysis.
		Graunt also was the first person to use mortality statistics to project population survival, probably by crudely fitting data samples to a logarithmic curve.
		For his efforts John Graunt became the first non-scientist appointed to the Royal Academy.
	training.seer.cancer.gov /module_cancer_registration/unit1_history.html (508 words)

	Amazon.com: Graunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John Graunt, John Arbuthnott, and the Human Sex Ratio.: An article from: Human Biology by R. Campbell (Jul 28, 2005)
		The earliest classics: Natural and political observations made upon the bills of mortality (1662) [by] John Graunt; Natural and political observations...
		Graunt or Petty?: The authorship of the observations upon the bills of morality by Charles Henry Hull (Unknown Binding - 1896)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Graunt&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (701 words)

	What statistical technique will be most valuable in my work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		His name was John Graunt, and he lived from 1620 to 1674.
		Graunt's most famous work is Natural and political observations...
		A look at Graunt's survival table from 17th century England quantifies the benefit: Of 100 people born in 1600, 64 lived to age 6, 40 to age 16 years, 25 to age 26 years.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/gerstman/hs167/what_statistical_technique_will_.htm (459 words)

	Decision Line / March 1997 / 28(2)
		Meanwhile, John Graunt, a well-to-do English merchant, is analyzing records of births and deaths in London with the goal of determining average life expectancies.
		Graunt's work, and that of Edmund Halley (of comet fame) provided the beginnings for actuarial science and the insurance industry.
		Economists Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes emphasize the role of uncertainty in decision-making.
	www.decisionsciences.org /decisionline/vol28/28_2/books.htm (1084 words)

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		Graunt perceived greater value in these numbers than merely an indication of the virulence of the plague at any one time.
		Graunt found that most people worry about dying from causes that actually are not very likely to kill them.
		Graunt noted that the number of plague deaths seesawed abruptly from one week to another.
	www.columbia.edu /~dj114/ross01.doc (3812 words)

	Heather's Howell Family - pafg22 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		John DEEBLE was born about 1505 in St. Germans, Cornwall, England.
		John GRAUNT [Parents] was born about 1505 in Roxby North Riding, Yorkshire, England.
		William GRAUNT was born about 1479 in Roxby North Riding, Yorkshire, England.
	members.cox.net /hbrush2/howellfamily/pafg22.htm (161 words)

	THE JOHN & SARA-Ship's Passenger List
		London This 11th of November, 1651; Captain John Greene; "Wee whose names are under written freighters of your shipe the John & Sara doe order yow forthwith as winde & weather shall permitt to sett sajle for Boston in New England & there deliver our Orders and Servants to Tho.
		Jn the Jno & Sara of London John Greene mr for New England: Rob't Rich mrt Jronworke household stuffe & other provisions for Planters and Scotch prisoners free by ordnance of Parliament dat 20th of October 1651.
		John Bradley Sr wth ye Armes of ye Comonwealth.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/colonial/main/john&sara.html (318 words)

	GROWTH AND - Online Information article about GROWTH AND
		Population Following on his calculations from 1509, when the in 16th population may be supposed to have been about 50,000, and 17th r Creighton carries on his numbers to the Restoration centuries.
		privilege, which, however, was recalled in the reigns of Henry H. and Richard I., to be restored by John in 1199.
		He was originally a king's officer and the office was probably instituted soon after the Conquest.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GRA_GUI/GROWTH_AND.html (5865 words)

	Southwark Deaths
		In regard to deaths in general, he quotes John Graunt, a 17th-century statistician, on the procedure used in reporting deaths:
		When anyone died, then, either by telling, or ringing a bell, or by bespeaking of a grave of the Sexton, the same is known to the Searchers corresponding with the same Sexton.
		Graunt, John (1662) Natural and Political Observations made upon the Bills of Mortality, London.
	home.comcast.net /~adhopkins/swkqdeath.htm (425 words)

	Ethics of Speculation and Risk: Our Slavery to Defunct Economic Theories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The discovery of sampling is credited to an Englishman, John Graunt, who in 1603 took a strange fascination in compiling a book, “Bills of Mortality,” that contained the births and deaths in London.
		This was the year in which London suffered one of the worst infestations of the plague and John Graunt took a strange delight in analyzing the causes of peoples’ death.
		Graunt realized that the statistics he had gathered in his book represented only a fraction of all the births and deaths that had ever occurred in London.
	www.helleniccomserve.com /ethicsofspeculation.html (3847 words)

	Data Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"John Graunt (1620-1674) was an English haberdasher who studied birth and death records and discovered that more boys were born than girls.
		He also found that, because men were more subject to death from occupational accidents, diseases, and war, the number of men and women of marriageable age were about equal.
		Graunt's work led to the development of actuarial science, which is used by life insurance companies"
	mathcentral.uregina.ca /RR/database/RR.09.97/maeers5.html (2085 words)

	Combs-Fleet Connections
		Their daughter, Judith m (1) Thomas SCOTT of Colchester, Essex, and (2) John VASSALL whose grandson, John had also lived in Old Rappa Co VA area.
		Codicil 28 Dec 1618: my Grandchilde Anne ACTON at age of 17, Godsonne, John ACTON, dau Anne ACTON, her other two children, to be paid at age of twentie and one yeres, granchilde, John FLEETE, to be paid at age, sonne in lawe Mr.
		Note that among the names in the above will are John FLEET'S "brother Edward BOUGHTON of Little Lawford, Warwickshire" and his "nephew Thomas NASHE." The Visitations and Records of Warwickshire and Worcestershire document at least two marriages of Edward BOUGHTONS to Combs, as well as identifying that the Warwickshire Combs also held land in Worcester.
	www.combs-families.org /combs/assoc/fleet.htm (2011 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		These are old English words used by John Graunt that do not have good translations in modern English.
		Infant in Graunt's time meant a child who could not take care of himself (perhaps up to 4 years old).
		A chrisome was even younger than an infant in Graunt's terminology.
	www.pitt.edu /AFShome/S/U/SUPER1/public/html/lecture/lec7261/008.htm (142 words)

	The Living at the Colony Theatre: Review
		Sir John Lawrence (John Ross Clark), a merchant with the until-then honorary title of Lord Mayor, was left to assume control of the city.
		It is Graunt who tells the tale, and the widow Sarah Chandler (Alison Shanks) who humanizes the story.
		And at the end of it all, it is Graunt who finally reaches out to make a single gesture of humanity no one else had dared.
	www.colonytheatre.org /shows/reviews/TheLivingReview.html (495 words)

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