CMI Provided some Lifespans of the Past

1) Φιλολoγικά/Philologica : "in a time when most people died at an average age of 35" ; 2) What others have to say about Life Expectancy through history - and my take on that ; 3) Longevity in Selected Ancestry and Inlaws of Eleanor of Montfort ; 4) Tudor Times Demographical Stats ; 5) How Many Hours are we Talking About, and How Heavy? ; 6) New blog on the kid : When "Answers" Paint Middle Ages Black ; 7) Creation vs. Evolution : CMI Provided some Lifespans of the Past ; 8)Other list from CMI of lifespans ; 9) Φιλολoγικά/Philologica : Medieval and Early Modern Lifespans, Again: Berkeleys and Related ; 10) Story of a Cardinal's Title with Pre-Industrial Demographics

Scientists of the past believed in a Creator
http://creation.com/creation-scientists#pastsci

Omitting introductory texts on Medieval, and presentatory text on each.

• John Philoponus (c. 490 – c. 570) 1
• Bede, ‘The Venerable’ (672/673 – 26 May 735) 2
• Robert Grosseteste (1175–1253) 3
• Johannes de Sacrobosco (c. 1195 – c. 1256) 4
• Albertus Magnus (c. 1200–1280) 5
• Roger Bacon (c. 1214 – 1292) 6
• John Peckham (c. 1230 – 1292, Archbishop of Canterbury) 7
• Thomas Bradwardine (c. 1290 – 26 August 1349) 8
• Jean (John) Buridan (c. 1300 – after 1358) 9
• John of Dumbleton (ca.1310 – ca. 1349) 10
• William of Heytesbury (c. 1313–1372/1373) 11
• Richard Swineshead (fl. c. 1340–1354) not counted since only a floruit
• Nicole Oresme (c. 1320 – 1382, bishop) 12
• Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464, Cardinal) 13

39 58 59 60 61 62 62 62 63 78 78 80 80

Age minimal : 39, maximal : 80.
Median : 62
Lower quartile : 60
Higher quartile : 78

Two of the items died in 1349, a plague year, of which the one on age minimal.

Omitting presentatory texts on each of Renaissance and Age of Newton scientists.

• Francis Bacon (1561–1626) 1
• Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) 2
• Johann Kepler (1571–1630) 3
• Athanasius Kircher (1601–1680) 4
• John Wilkins (1614–1672) 5
• Walter Charleton (1619–1707) 6
• Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) 7
• Sir William Petty (1623 –1687) 8
• Robert Boyle (1627–1691) 9
• John Ray (1627–1705) 10
• Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) 11
• Nicolas Steno (1631–1686) 12
• Thomas Burnet (1635–1715) 13
• Increase Mather (1639–1723) 14
• Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712) 15

39 47 54 58 59 64 64 65 71 78 79 80 80 84 88

Age minimal : 39, maximal : 88
Median : 65
Lower quartile : 58/59
Higher quartile : 79/80

• Isaac Newton (1642–1727) 1
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646–1716) 2
• John Flamsteed (1646–1719) 3
• William Derham (1657–1735) 4
• Cotton Mather (1662–1727) 5
• John Harris (1666–1719) 6
• John Woodward (1665–1728) 7
• William Whiston (1667–1752) 8
• John Hutchinson (1674–1737) 9
• Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) 10
• Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778) 11
• Jean Deluc (1727–1817) 12
• Richard Kirwan (1733–1812) 13
• William Herschel (1738–1822) 14
• James Parkinson (1755–1824) 15
• John Dalton (1766–1844) 16
• John Kidd, M.D. (1775–1851) 17

53 55 63 63 65 69 70 71 73 76 78 78 79 84 85 85 90

Age minimal : 53, age maximal : 90
Median : 73
Lower quartile : 65
Higher quartile : 84

Omitting Just before Darwin, as this starts out to be within Industrial Revolution era, though some of previous also come to contemorary with these. And omitting the following ones.

So, minimal ages go 39, 39, 53. Rise 14 years. Maximal ages go 80, 88, 90. Rise 10 years. Median ages go 62, 65, 73. Rise 11 years. Lower quartiles go 60, 58/59, 65. A dip of 1/2 years before a rise of 6/7 years, a total rise of 5 years. Higher quartiles go 78, 79/80, 84. A rise of 6 years.

I think pre-industrial and medieval conditions were, materially speaking, though inferior to those of "age of Newton" at least not so bad. Which once again has been demonstrated by these stats.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St Bridget of Sweden, Widow
8-X-2015