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Record ID 206933

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 35

Petty's Political Arithmetick

Borrowed: 1746/10/1 (Saturday). Returned: 1746/10/1 (Saturday).


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Robert Wight
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1684-1764.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


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Sir William Petty (Male, born 1623, died 1687)
Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy
Five essays in political arithmetick, Viz. I. Objections from the city of Rey in Persia, and from Monsr. Auzout, against two former essays, answered, and that London hath as many people as Paris, Rome and Rouen put together. II. A comparison between London and Paris in 14 particulars. III. Proofs that at London, within its 134 parishes named in the Bills of Mortality, there live about 696 thousand people. IV. An estimate of the people in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Rome, Dublin, Bristoll and Rouen, with several observations upon the same. V. Concerning Hollan and the rest of the VII United Provinces. By Sir William Petty, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Classmark: 8.7.20.

Borrowed: 1746/10/1 (Saturday). Returned: 1746/10/1 (Saturday).

Borrower: Robert Wight

Author: Sir William Petty (Male, born 1623, died 1687), Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy

Five Essays in Political Arithmetick

Record ID 206942

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 35

Borrowed: 1746/10/1 (Saturday). Returned: 1746/10/1 (Saturday).

Borrower: Robert Wight

Author: Alexander Henderson (Male, born c.1583, died 1646), Genre: Theology

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