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Thomas Harriot—Sir Walter Ralegh's tutor—On population

Pages 205-212 | Published online: 22 Aug 2006

  • See Stangeland C.E. Pre Malthusian Doctrines of Population New York 1904 112 112 The locus in the Discourse quoted by Professor Stangeland comes from Works of Sir Walter Raleigh (ed. by T. Birch, London, 1751), vol. ii., p. 25. In the History Stangeland directs the reader to ‘especially bk. i, ch. viii, sec. 4’.
  • Strangeland . 1904 . Pre Malthusian Doctrines of Population 112 – 112 . New York
  • Bonar , J. 1931 . Theories of Population from Raleigh to Arthur Young 19 – 19 . London Bonar also claims that Ralegh's was ‘a bow drawn at venture’ (p. 23).
  • For discussions of Botero's views see Stangeland 105 107 and Bonar, pp. 16–17.
  • Brit. Mus. Add. , 6782 31 – 31 .
  • Davies G. The Early Stuarts Oxford 1959 261 261 in says we may assume there were between 4,000,000 and 4,500,000 inhabitants of England in the reign of James I.
  • Exactly such calculations are found in Brit. Mus. Add. 6788 537 537
  • It is found in an unfinished state in Add. 6788 f. 541 f. 541
  • Skellam , J.G. 1955 . “ The Mathematical Approach to Population Dynamics ” . In The Numbers of Man and Animals Edited by: Cragg , J.B. and Pirie , N.W. 32 – 32 . London

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