:<i>John Dee: The Limits of the British Empire</i>

Dee, John; MacMillan, Ken; Abeles, Jennifer

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“…Dee was almost certainly William Shakespeare's model for Prospero in The Tempest. That play may be the best introduction to this extraordinary man, and many other books are also a lot of fun to read (Dee, 2004;Hooper, 2011;Yates, 1983).…”

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Was seventeenth-century British political arithmetic a precursor of nineteenth-century economic science?

Taylor

2023

Terra Econ.

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The 19th-century English economist W.S.Jevons revisited the work of Gregory King. A seventeenth-century follower of Sir Francis Bacon, King had described in a brief empirical observation how price correlated with supply. The history of seventeenth-century commercial mathematics, this essay suggests, provides essential background for understanding the empirical observation which Jevons received from King. The 17th century was the pivot time during which new techniques appeared in higher mathematics, calculus and mathematical probability among them. Higher mathematics incorporated innovations which had previously appeared in commercial mathematics, Arabic numerals, pen and paper calculations, new notations, etc. At the same time, ancient Greek higher mathematics continued for a while, and Gregory King also borrowed some calculations from James Ussher who used ancient Greek higher mathematics. King learned Bacon's empirical method from John Graunt and Sir William Petty, and all three represented a stage of political arithmetic which was midway between Bacon's simple empiricism on the one hand and later mathematical probability and random sampling on the other hand. In this midway stage, statesmen made policy while taking care to obtain data from professional advisors whom they employed. The advisors based their advice at first on a combination of observation, skill, and intuition, but then later they added commercial arithmetic.

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Section: Miscellaneous Remarks In Closingmentioning

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Was seventeenth-century British political arithmetic a precursor of nineteenth-century economic science?

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2023

Terra Econ.

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John Dee’s ideas and plans for a national research institute

Clulee

2012

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect

Orford

2011

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The idea that states and the international community have a responsibility to protect populations at risk has framed internationalist debates about conflict prevention, humanitarian aid, peacekeeping and territorial administration since 2001. This book situates the responsibility to protect concept in a broad historical and jurisprudential context, demonstrating that the appeal to protection as the basis for de facto authority has emerged at times of civil war or revolution - the Protestant revolutions of early modern Europe, the bourgeois and communist revolutions of the following centuries and the revolution that is decolonisation. This analysis, from Hobbes to the UN, of the resulting attempts to ground authority on the capacity to guarantee security and protection is essential reading for all those seeking to understand, engage with, limit or critique the expansive practices of international executive action authorised by the responsibility to protect concept.

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:John Dee: The Limits of the British Empire

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Was seventeenth-century British political arithmetic a precursor of nineteenth-century economic science?

Was seventeenth-century British political arithmetic a precursor of nineteenth-century economic science?

John Dee’s ideas and plans for a national research institute

International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect

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