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 1. About William Petty (1623-1687)

Early economist,
more accurately: predecessor of the classical political economists.

A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions (1662)

 

But Petty is also known as:

• physician, and Professor of Anatomy in Oxford (1650),
  and Professor of Music at Gresham College London;
• cartographer of Ireland: The Down Survey (1655-1656);
  and subsequently a (big) landowner in that country (about 270.000 acres at his death);
• writer of Advice to Hartlib, about education (1647);
• inventor of things like "Double Writing" and a double-bottom ship;
• inventor of "Political Arithmetic" (statistics), together with John Graunt;
• one of the founders of the Royal Society of London;
• etc. etc.

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