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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: and Professor of Music at Gresham College London; and subsequently a (big) landowner in that country (about 270.000 acres at his death);
 * physician, and Professor of Anatomy in Oxford (1650),
 * cartographer of Ireland: The Down Survey (1655-1656);
 * 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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