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💡 Halley's Law of Mortality: Edmond Halley publishes the first life table for insurance purposes (1693).
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Further Reading
A new look at Halley's life table (mcgill.ca)
Edmond Halley's Life Table and Its Uses* - DePaul University (depaul.edu)
Predictable You - Cabinet Magazine (cabinetmagazine.org)
Edmond Halley - Insurance Hall of Fame (insurancehalloffame.org)
Halley's life table (1693) - ResearchGate (researchgate.net)
Edmond Halley, An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of ... (pierre-marteau.com)
Halley's Life Table - R (github.io)
PAPP101 - s07: Life Tables (I) (iussp.org)
978-1-4684-1695-4.pdf (springer.com)
Social Science History: Society and Science History TimeLine (org.uk)