William Petty
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Sir William Petty was an English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to s
c. 1650 portrait of Petty by Isaac Fuller
Portrait of Petty attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller
Mezzotint of Petty by John Smith after a John Closterman portrait
The Economic Writings, 1899
Anne Greene
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Anne Greene was an English domestic servant who was accused of committing infanticide in 1650. She is known for surviving her attempted execution by hanging, being revived by physicians from the Unive
William Petty
…instructor at Brasenose College, Oxford, as deputy to Thomas Clayton the younger. With a second doctor, Thomas Willis, Petty was involved in treating Anne Greene, a woman who survived her own hanging and was subsequently pardoned because her survival was widely held to be an act of divine intervention. The event…
Woodcut from A Wonder of Wonders (1651) depicting the hanging of Anne Greene
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