Petty went to Ireland in 1652 as Physician to the Army, became very rich, and contributed to both science and politics in 17th-century colonial Ireland. Jordan (emeritus child development, U. of Missouri-St. Louis) offers a biography of him. Among his achievements were the down Survey of the middle 1660s, The Political Anatomy of Ireland and other works, and establishing the Dublin Philosophical Society. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This study portrays the life and times of Sir William Petty (1623-1687), a seventeenth-century physician who was intimately involved in the English colonial project.
