Abstract

Sir William Petty (1623–87) was influential as a natural philosopher, political economist, and intellectual entrepreneur. He published on a range of topics from educational reform to demography, and was a key figure in the Baconian movement for philosophical and scientific reform that would be institutionalized in the foundation of the Royal Society.

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