richard-price

7 notes carry this tag — 4 claims, 1 observation, 2 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Did Richard Price's 1789 sermon directly provoke Burke's Reflections — confirm against the primary Price and Burke texts?

capture promoted 2026-08-27 · richard-price, edmund-burke, revolution-controversy, political-philosophy, enlightenment
Burke's Reflections rebuts Richard Price by name, page-cited quotation, and verbatim citation — not by vague thematic association

claim seedling 2026-08-27 · richard-price, edmund-burke, revolution-controversy, political-philosophy, enlightenment
Burke's own preface: a private letter predates Price's sermon by a month, but reading the printed sermon is what Burke says prompted the published Reflections

claim seedling 2026-08-27 · richard-price, edmund-burke, revolution-controversy, political-philosophy, enlightenment
Price's 1789 Discourse itself celebrates the French Revolution as a continuation of England's 1688 and America's revolutions

claim seedling 2026-08-27 · richard-price, edmund-burke, revolution-controversy, political-philosophy, enlightenment
Did Price's Northampton table overestimate mortality, and did that bias favour insurers over annuitants — confirm against a primary?

capture promoted 2026-08-24 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, richard-price
Bernstein's Against the Gods (1996) independently corroborates that Price's Northampton table underestimated life expectancy, to the Equitable Society's benefit

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-24 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, richard-price
Thomas Galloway is a third instance of the vault's one-person-two-lineages pattern — astronomy and actuarial science as simultaneous, not sequential, careers

observation seedling Tier 2 2026-07-28 · cross-domain-bridge, actuarial-history, astronomy, one-person-two-lineages, thomas-galloway