3. The fathers of demographic thought

2018 ◽  
pp. 14-23
Author(s):  
Sarah Harper
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
Life Tables ◽  
Analytical Reasoning ◽  
Thomas Malthus ◽  
Statistical Regularities ◽  
The Relationship

Demographic ideas can be traced back to antiquity, but it is generally accepted that demography originated in the middle of the 17th century with the English statistician, John Graunt (1620–74), and his primitive life tables, which were the first attempt to examine statistical regularities inherent within the numbers of births and deaths. ‘The fathers of demographic thought’ describes the diverse theorists who founded and developed the study of demography. It begins with Graunt and then outlines the input of Sir William Petty (1623–87), Edmund Halley (1656–1742), Richard Price (1723–91), and Thomas Malthus (1766–1834). Their foundations were central to developing the relationship between analytical reasoning, numerical problems, and arithmetical records.

scholarly journals The Revenge of Sovereignty on Government? The Release of Neoliberal Politics from Economics Post-2008

2021 ◽  
pp. 026327642199945
Author(s):  
William Davies
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Liberal Societies ◽  
Liberal Government ◽  
The Relationship

Liberal government, as analysed by Foucault, is a project of measured, utilitarian political activity, that takes ‘population’ as its object, dating back to the late 17th century. The rise of nationalism, authoritarianism and populism directly challenges this project, by seeking to re-introduce excessive, gratuitous and performative modes of power back into liberal societies. This article examines the relationship and tensions between government and sovereignty, so as to make sense of this apparent ‘revenge of sovereignty on government’. It argues that neoliberalism has been a crucial factor in the return of sovereignty as a ‘problem’ of contemporary societies. Neoliberalism tacitly generates new centres of sovereign power, which have become publicly visible since 2008, leading to a dramatic resurgence of discourses and claims to ‘sovereignty’.

scholarly journals Vanitas Obsolescentum An exhibition of images

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lianne Wing Yan Ho
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
North American ◽  
Art History ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
North American Society ◽  
Dutch Golden Age ◽  
American Society ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Vanitas Obsolescentum is a comment on the obsolescence of contemporary commodity. It draws from prominent theories of obsolescence and appropriates 17th century Dutch Vanitas paintings. This paper begins by addressing themes relevant to the conceptual development of the series, including theories of obsolescence as presented by Packard, Papanek and Slade, the relationship of Dutch Golden Age society to contemporary North American society, Dutch Vanitas paintings, and appropriation of the Vanitas genre in contemporary art history and within this series. It provides a rationale for the use of holography as medium to express concepts of transience and hyperreality. This paper concludes with a discussion of the specifics of Vanitas Obsolescentum, including the symbolism and meaning of each piece within the series.

scholarly journals Kunst og naturvidenskab under samme tag

1970 ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer ◽  
Hanne Teglhus
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Full Size ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
American Artist ◽  
Size Model ◽  
The Relationship

Kollokvium om at udstille kunst og naturvidenskab. Steno Museet, Danmarks Videnskabshistoriske Museum, Århus, 25. september 2006. In the fall of 2006, the Steno Museum (Aarhus, Denmark) exhibited the installation Room One created by the American artist Rosamond Purcell. This installation consists of a full-size model of Museum Wormianum, the Danish physician Ole Worm’s curiosity cabinet, dating from the 17th century. This is a work of art – yet it depicts a naturalist’s laboratory. When one adds that it has also been called the first museum in Denmark, it seemed an obvious step to make the artwork the occasion of a symposium on the relationship between art, science and museums. At this symposium, the artist, along with a number of science historians and museum curators, discussed the definitions of art and science then and now, and spoke about the attempts to transcend the disciplinary boundaries that take place within the museums. Different ways of exhibiting were brought into focus, and Purcell’s installation formed the basis for many interesting discussions about the museum as a place of learning and of aesthetic experience.

Jane Kamensky, Governing the tongue: The politics of speech in early New England. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 291. Hb $35.00.

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-144
Author(s):  
E. Jennifer Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Oxford University Press

In what she terms “an exercise in historical eavesdropping”, Kamensky explores the relationship between speech and society in 17th-century New England. In doing so, she places speech at center stage in the New England experience. Her insightful study floodlights the connections between gender and speech, speech and power, community cohesiveness and community deviance. Early New Englanders, she argues, believed “speech was conduct and conduct was speech” that is, in a culture that remained largely oral, they imbued speech with powers almost as great as those of actual deeds.

Neo-aristotelian grammar in 17th-century England

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Joseph L. Subbiondo
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Language And Thought ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Summary In his Herm’œlogium; or an Essay at the Rationality of Speaking of 1659 Basset Jones intended to supplement William Lily’s (c. 1468–1522) popular 16th-century grammar, which had received the endorsement of Edward VI. Written in English and Latin, Lily’s grammar through its many editions not only set the standard for Latin grammars, but it also established the style for the first and subsequent grammars of English. Jones realized that Lily’s grammatical model, with its emphasis solely on the classification and arrangement of material according to the classic paradigms for conjugation and declension, ignored the philosophy of grammar which was necessary for an understanding of the relationship of language and thought.

Decrement tables and the measurement of morbidity: II

1984 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Haberman
Keyword(s):  
Markov Chains ◽  
Life Tables ◽  
The Relationship

1.1. An earlier paper by the author has attempted to describe the theories of multi-state life tables and inhomogeneous Markov chains in their application to the study of morbidity as introduced by Pollard. It is the purpose of this paper to extend the model to describe the relationship between the incidence and prevalence of a disease. The implications of certain assumptions about the presence of mortality and of differentials in the level of mortality are also discussed.

Sesquisyllabicity, Chữ Nôm, and the Early Modern embrace of vernacular writing in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
pp. 251385021993735
Author(s):  
John D. Phan
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
East Asia ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Syllable Structure ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

In East Asia, the relationship between script and language is determined to a great extent by the typological character of the languages involved. This is particularly so because sinographic writing generally relies on the syllable as the smallest unit of sound expressible. However, many languages that have adapted Sinitic writing throughout history display complex syllable structure not easily expressible by the monosyllabically inclined sinograph. Moreover, some languages have even displayed changing syllable structure throughout documented history. This article examines the so-called “monosyllabicization” of the Vietnamese language, and its impact on the history of the sinographic vernacular script known as Chữ Nôm. I argue that by the 17th century, the emergent monosyllabic character of Vietnamese was remarked upon by elites as a new justification for embracing vernacular writing, previously considered uncouth.

How do writing systems shape reading and reading acquisition?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Rastle
Keyword(s):  
Text Comprehension ◽  
Reading Acquisition ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Writing System ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
Skilled Reading ◽  
Statistical Regularities ◽  
Reading System ◽  
The Relationship

Writing is a relatively recent cultural invention, and reading is a skill that requires years of instruction, dedication, and practice. My talk will consider how the nature of a writing system influences reading acquisition and skilled reading. I consider the nature of statistical regularities that characterize English orthography and show across several experiments that knowledge encoded in the skilled reading system mirrors these regularities. This analysis reveals that weaknesses in the relationship between spelling and sound give rise to powerful regularities between spelling and meaning that are critical for text comprehension. I conclude by thinking about how written language differs from spoken language and argue that these differences may be at the heart of human capacity for rapid, skilled reading.

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