Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6788

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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> This folio continues the calculations shown on Add MS
                <ref target="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/library/AYB35Z4D/&start=1070&viewMode=image&pn=1071"> f. </ref>
              , now up to 240 years. The suppositions underlying the model are set out in three numbered points.
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              This page appears to be the '
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              c' referred to in Add MS 6782
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              , where the same suppositions are given and the results are summarized. Unfortunately, Harriot's lettering of the page has been lost in the binding. </s>
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            one woman in 240 </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> [1]. That the first mand & woman
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            have a child every yeare, one
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            yeare male & another yere </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> 2. That the children when they are
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            20 yeres old & upward do also
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            every
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            beget a child, one yere
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            male & an other yere </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> 3. That all are living at the end
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            of 240 </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve">[
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> After adding the number of males and females, Harriot multiplies the total population by 3. This suggests that his calculations are related to the biblical chronology of some of the surrounding pages, the three pairs being the three sons of Noah (Shem, Ham, Japheth) and their wives.</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> In 240
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> males. </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> females. </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> persons. </s>
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