INED, 3221; Einaudi, 3956 (la seconde partie seule); Kress, B135; Goldsmiths, 11690.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition.<\/p>\n
It is sometimes attributed to Auget de Montyon, for whom Moheau worked as a secretary. Moheau (1745-1794), a French demographer, is considered one of the founders of demography. In his important work – which predates Thomas Malthus’s An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) by almost twenty years – he was the first to discuss the mortality differential between different social strata.<\/p>\n
“L\u2018originalit\u00e9 des Recherches et Consid\u00e9rations, r\u00e9side dans le fait que, pour la premi\u00e8re fois en France, la d\u00e9mographie, cessant d\u2019\u00eatre l\u2019annexe d\u2019une philosophie politique ou d\u2019un syst\u00e8me \u00e9conomique, devient un champ scientifique autonome. La Premi\u00e8re Partie est le fruit d\u2019un important travail statistique. Moheau a rassembl\u00e9 et soumis \u00e0 une nouvelle analyse une grande quantit\u00e9 de donn\u00e9es sur l\u2019\u00e9tat et le mouvement de la population fran\u00e7aise qui avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9labor\u00e9es par ses pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseurs (Deparcieux, Messance, d\u2019Expilly, Buffon, etc.). Il y a ajout\u00e9 des donn\u00e9es r\u00e9unies par ses propres soins. A l\u2019aide de calculs tr\u00e8s simples (proportions, moyennes), il cherche des r\u00e9gularit\u00e9s, sinon des lois” (INED online).<\/p>\n
A fine copy in its contemporary binding (one part missing in the white margin of a leaf, torn out during printing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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