DEPARCIEUX, Antoine

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DEPARCIEUX, Antoine
Essai sur les probabilités de la durée de la vie humaine ; d'où l'on déduit la manière de déterminer les rentes viagères, tant simples qu'en Tontines : précédé d'une courte explication sur les rentes à terme. Paris, Guérin brothers, 1746. In-4 (257 x 203 mm) of VI pp., 1 f.n.ch. (approval and errata), 132, XXII pp. of tables (8 of which on double page), 1 f.n.ch. (privilege). marbled calf, double cold fillet framing the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges (period binding). INED, 169; Einaudi, 1521; Goldsmiths, 8233; Kress, 4801; DSB, IV, 38-39. First edition of this important statistical treatise, the first French work concerning statistics and the calculation of probabilities in insurance and prevention. A supplement was published in 1760. Antoine Deparcieux (1703-1768) began his studies at the Jesuit college in Alès and moved to Paris in 1730 where he became a sundial builder. With a lively mind he became interested in hydraulics and conceived a project to bring water from the river Yvette to Paris; this project was executed after his death. In 1746 he was admitted to the Académie des Sciences de Paris. "After long investigations of tontines, individual families, and religious communities, Deparcieux published his results in the famous Essai sur les probabilités de la durée de la vie humaine, one of the first statistical works of its kind. It consists of treatises on annuities, mortality, and life annuities. Deparcieux showed a real progress in his theoretical explanation of the properties of the tables of mortality... His tables... were for a long time the only ones on life expectancies in France. He also made further inquiries on the concept of the mean life expectancy" (DSB). [Bound at the end:] THOMAS. Objections made to M. Deparcieux... on his book. Paris, November 1746. In-4, 16 pp. Some foxing and a few yellowed leaves, spine and corners skilfully restored.
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