Two Papers on the Degrees of Mortality of Mankind: I. An estimate of the degrees of the mortality of mankind, drawn from curious tables of the births and funerals at the city of Breslaw; with an attempt to ascertain the price of annuities upon lives (Philosophical Transactions of the royal Society of London, 1693). II. Some further considerations on the Breslaw bills of mortality (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1693). Edited with an Introduction by Lowell J. Reed.

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