Authority Cited: Graunt
Author name and dates: John Graunt (1620-1674)
BKG Bio-tweet: London haberdasher; early demographer, epidemiologist; Royal Society; house destroyed in London 1666 Great Fire; died in poverty
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 45 Graunt cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 66 cites in vol. 2. No additional Graunt cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The approximately 67 headwords sampled, as listed below, are principally from the letters "A" through "F," "L," and "T" through "W." About 40% of the headwords sampled are cited only as "Graunt." "Graunt" cites verified as being from the title below are indicated in brackets. All such cites of Graunt appear to be from the title below. The edition used by SJ is unknown, but was after 1665, when the Appendix of the B. of M. first appeared (e.g., with forerun, theorem).]
Author name and dates: John Graunt (1620-1674)
BKG Bio-tweet: London haberdasher; early demographer, epidemiologist; Royal Society; house destroyed in London 1666 Great Fire; died in poverty
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 45 Graunt cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 66 cites in vol. 2. No additional Graunt cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The approximately 67 headwords sampled, as listed below, are principally from the letters "A" through "F," "L," and "T" through "W." About 40% of the headwords sampled are cited only as "Graunt." "Graunt" cites verified as being from the title below are indicated in brackets. All such cites of Graunt appear to be from the title below. The edition used by SJ is unknown, but was after 1665, when the Appendix of the B. of M. first appeared (e.g., with forerun, theorem).]
- Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the bills of mortality, by Capt. John Graunt, Fellow of the Royal Society, With reference to the Government, Religion, Trade, Growth, Air, Diseases and the several changes of the said City, The Fourth Impression. 1665, Printed by William Hall for John Martyn, and James Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society (3d ed., 1665. 1st ed. 1662. per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.153); [afflux]; algebraist; become; beggar (cited as Grant); bill; [breeder]; [burgh (burrough in text)]; casualty; [celibate]; chrisom; christening; clothier; commiseration; content; contribution; [defunct]; distinguishment; double; earn; easterly; elsewhere; emaciate; emasculate; enter; epidemical/epidemick; extant; [extend]; fecund; fifteenth; film; [forerun (quotation was found in the Appendix, which first appeared in the 3rd edition)]; ... lay; learner; [livergrown]; lodger; look; low; lunatick; make; male; ... [theorem (quotation was found in the Appendix, which first appeared in the 3rd edition)]; variation; uncleanness; unpleasantness; voluminous; wedding; westerly; [wholesomeness];
- Graunt (no work cited); conformity; countryman; emaciation; fornication; gallery; ... intemperate; labour; lose; ... sweep; take; tetchy; thirteenth; to; toll; tradesman; vender; unhealthful; wether;