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In 1693, the astronomer Edmond Halley created a basis for underwriting life insurance by developing the first mortality table; unfortunately, his table used the same rate for all ages. Beginning with the second half of the seventeenth century and ending with the early twentieth, contributors (who work in economics and other fields in Europe and North America) discuss the contributions of Jacob Bernoulli, Isaac Le Maire, Joseph de la Vega, Jan de Witt, Edmond Halley, Abraham de Moivre, Thomas Simpson, John Law, Emmanuel-Etienne Duvillard, Henri Lefevre, Jules Regnault, Louis Bachelier, and Vincenz Bronzin. HOLLOW EARTH: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface DAVID STANDISH In 1692, Edmond Halley submitted a paper to the British Royal Society stating that Earth is hollow. |
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