Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1: Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age
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Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1: Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age
Natural history; Science -- Early works to 1800; Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800
Thus it appears, that the whole People of _Breslaw_ does consist of
34000 _Souls_, being the Sum _Total_ of the Persons of all Ages in the
_Table_: The first use hereof is to shew the Proportion of _Men_ able to
bear _Arms_ in any _Multitude_, which are those between 18 and 56,
rather than 16 and 60; the one being generally too weak to bear the
_Fatigues_ of _War_, and the Weight of _Arms_; and the other too crasie
and infirm from _Age_, notwithstanding particular Instances to the
contrary. Under 18 from the _Table_, are found in this City 11997
Persons, 3950 above 56, which together make 15947, so that the Residue
to 34000 being 18053, are Persons between those _Ages_. At least one
half thereof are Males, or 9027: So that the whole Force this City can
raise of _Fencible Men_, as the _Scotch_ call them, is about 9000, or
9/34, or somewhat more than a quarter of the _Number_ of _Souls_; which
may parhaps pass for a Rule for all other places.
The _Second Use_ of this _Table_, is, to shew the differing degrees of
_Mortality_, or rather _Vitality_, in all _Ages_; for if the Number of
Persons of any _Age_ remaining after one Year, be divided by the
difference between that and the number of the _Age_ proposed, it shews
the _Odds_ that there is, that a Person of that _Age_ does not die in a
_Year_. As for Instance, a Person of 25 _Years_ of _Age_ has the Odds of
560 to 7, or 80 to 1, that he does not _die_ in a _Year_: Because that
of 567, living of 25 _Years_ of _Age_, there do die no more than 7 in a
_Year_, leaving 560 of 26 Years old.
So likewise for the _Odds_, that any Person does not die before he
attain any proposed _Age_: Take the _number_ of the remaining Persons of
the _Age_ proposed, and divide it by the difference between it and the
number of those of the _Age_ of the Party proposed; and that shews the
_Odds_ there is between the Chances of the Party's living or dying. As
for Instance; What is the _Odds_ that a Man of 40 lives 7 Years: Take
the number of Persons of 47 Years, which in the Table is 377, and
subtract it from the number of Persons of 40 Years, which is 445, and
the _difference_ is 68: Which shews that the _Persons dying_ in that 7
Years, are 68, and that it is 377 to 68, or 5½ to 1, that a Man of 40
does live 7 Years. And the like for any other _number_ of _Years_.
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