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The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty. Together with the Observations upon the Bills of Mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt, ed. Charles H. Hull, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1899); another edn, ed. Augustus M. Kelley (New York, 1963).
The Advice of W. P. to Mr. Samuel Hartlib for the advancement of some particular parts of learning (1647).
‘A Declaration concerning the newly invented art of Double Writing: wherein are expressed the reasons for the author’s proceedings in procuring a priviledge for the same ... Whereunto is annexed a copie of an ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, approving the ... said invention, and allowing a priviledge to the inventor, for ... 14 years upon the penalty of one hundred pounds’ (1648).
A Treatise of Taxes, and Contributions (1662).
The Double Bottom, or Twin-Hulled Ship, of Sir Wm. Petty (1662–84); repr. and ed. by the Marquess of Lansdowne (1931).
‘The Discourse made before the Royal Society 26 November 1674, concerning the use of Duplicate Proportion ... together with a new hypothesis of springing or elastique motion’ (1674).
Five Essays in Political Arithmetick, with French trans. (1687).
Political Arithmetick, or a discourse concerning the value of lands, people, etc., with a dedicatory epistle by C. Petty, Baron Shelburne (1690).
‘A Treatise of Naval Philosophy ... ’, in Thomas Hale, ‘An account of several new inventions ... relating to building of our English shipping’ (1691).
The Political Anatomy of Ireland ... To which is added Verbum sapienti to an account of the wealth and expenses of England and the method of raising taxes in the most equal manner, ed. N. Tate (1691).
Quantulumcumque Concerning Money (1682; 1695).
Several Essays in Political Arithmetick (1699).
The History of the Survey of Ireland, commonly called the Down Survey, ed. Thomas A. Larcom (Dublin, 1851).
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Fitzmaurice, E.G.P., Baron, The Life of Sir William Petty 1623–1687 (1895).
Hull, Charles L., ‘Bibliography of William Petty’ in Notes and Queries (1895).
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (1968).
Kargon, Robert H., ‘William Petty’s Mechanical Philosophy’, Isis, vol. 56 (1965), pp. 63–6.
Keynes, Geoffrey L., A Bibliography of Sir William Petty, F. R. S., and of Observations on the Bills of Mortality, by John Graunt, F. R. S. (1971).
Lansdowne, Marquis of, The Petty Papers: Some Unpublished Writings (London and Boston, 1927).
—————, The Petty–Southwell Correspondence 1676–1687, ed. from the Bowood Papers (1928).
Strauss, Emil, Sir William Petty, Portrait of a Genius (London and Glencoe, Illinois, 1954).
Wolf, Abraham, A History of Science, Technology and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries (2nd edn, ed. Douglas McKie, New York, 1959).
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