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Paper, 'On Kersseboom's 2nd & 3rd treatises on computing the population of Holland' by John van Rixtel

Reference number: L&P/1/154

Date: 27 January 1742

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Subject: Demography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract by John van Rixtel, F. R. S. of Mr. W. Kersseboom’s second and third treatise—confirming the manner how to know the probable quantity of people in the provinces of Holland and West-Friesland, besides a foundation on which to prove the probable lives of widows, and likewise a rule whereby to know the duration of marriages'

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L&P/1/154
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27 January 1742
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John van Rixtel, Paper, 'On Kersseboom's 2nd & 3rd treatises on computing the population of Holland' by John van Rixtel, 27 January 1742, L&P/1/154, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_154/paper-on-kerssebooms-2nd-3rd-treatises-on-computing-the-population-of-holland-by-john-van-rixtel, accessed on 11 February 2026

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