Title page of Desparcieux's Addition a l'essai sur les probabilités
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Antoine Deparcieux Issues the First "Correct" Life Tables

1746 to 1760
Title page of Deparcieux's book on probabilities
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In 1746 French mathematician and statistician Antoine Deparcieux issued in Paris Essai sur les probabilités de la durée de la vie humaine. He published a supplement to this work entitled Addition à l'Essai sur les probabilités de la durée de la vie humaine in 1760. These works on annuities and mortality were the first correct "life tables."

J. Norman (ed) Morton's Medical Bibliography, 5th ed. (1991) no. 1691.1

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