Classical Probability In The Enlightenment

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Classical Probability In The Enlightenment

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Author : Lorraine Daston
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1988

Classical Probability In The Enlightenment written by Lorraine Daston and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.

"This book presents a comprehensive, insightful survey of the history of probability, both in terms of its scientific and its social uses. . . . It represents a substantial contribution not only to the history of probability but also to our understanding of the Enlightenment in general".--Joseph W. Dauben, "American Scientist".

Lottery Fantasies Follies And Controversies

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Author : Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2025-12-04

Lottery Fantasies Follies And Controversies written by Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-12-04 with Sports & Recreation categories.

The volume explores the ways in which the lottery was imagined in early modern and long eighteenth-century Europe. It presents a series of interconnected case studies from Denmark-Norway, the German-speaking areas, Britain, the Low Countries, France, Italy, and Spain, which bring into dialogue a wide range of materials: lottery tickets and advertisements, pamphlets and periodicals, visual art, popular songs, poetry, prose fiction and plays, political, moral, and judicial treatises. This material suggests how lotteries were perceived as inviting fantasies, dreams, and daydreams; as engendering folly, superstition, and compulsive playing; as leading to social misery, bankruptcy, and suicide; as betraying questions of risk, trust, and fairness; and as being deeply embedded in the political and fi nancial development of an emerging modernity.

The Sciences In Enlightened Europe

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Author : William Clark
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1999-07

The Sciences In Enlightened Europe written by William Clark and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07 with History categories.

Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between "englightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academics and boisterous clubs, plans for violent wars and for universal peace, are all relocated in the landscape of enlightened Europe. The contributors show how changing forms of discipline, machinery, and instrumentation affected the emergence of new kinds of knowledge; consider how institutions of public rate taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional operations of scientific culture at the geographical fringes of Europe. Covering a wide range of scientific disciplines, both in the principal European countries and in areas peripheral to Europe, the book also includes ample illustrations and an extensive bibliography. Implicated in the rise of both fascism and liberal secularism, the moral and political values that shaped the Enlightenment remain controversial today. Through careful scrutiny of how these values influenced and were influenced by the concrete practices of its sciences, this book gives us an entirely new sense of the Enlightenment. -- from back cover.

The Empire Of Chance

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Author : Gerd Gigerenzer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1989

The Empire Of Chance written by Gerd Gigerenzer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.

Connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent applications in law, medicine, polling, and baseball as well as their impact on biology, physics and psychology.

Studies In Eighteenth Century Culture

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Author : Syndy M. Conger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Studies In Eighteenth Century Culture written by Syndy M. Conger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.

"The riches of this Miscellany (and what could be a more appropriate genre for eighteenth-century specialists to contrive together?) speak for themselves: a dozen disciplines dance in pairs or singly to offer new insights into the texts and contexts of eighteenth-century culture in America, Britain, and the European continent. Together they also shed light on some of the ideas that captured our society's collective imagination in 1995-96; in the order that they occur, pastoralism, letters in/and paintings, Augustanism, the aesthetic, hysteria, female alienation, German Enlightenment, libertinism, corporeal limitations, the limits of expression, knowledge, charity, the moral, wisdom, Gothicism. Since SECC readers selected these 16 essays from nearly 100 submissions to the annual last year, it is also fair to say that they also represent some of the best conference papers heard at regional and the national meetings during that time." -- from the Editor's Note

Historical Studies In The Physical And Biological Sciences

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

Historical Studies In The Physical And Biological Sciences written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biology categories.

The Reader S Adviser

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

The Reader S Adviser written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Best books categories.

Cornell International Law Journal

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Cornell International Law Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Electronic journals categories.

The Singular And The Making Of Knowledge At The Royal Society Of London In The Eighteenth Century

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Author : Palmira Fontes da Costa
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009

The Singular And The Making Of Knowledge At The Royal Society Of London In The Eighteenth Century written by Palmira Fontes da Costa and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.

The central subject of this book is the status of singular experiences in the making of natural knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the eighteenth century. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the importance of the reporting and display of extraordinary phenomena at the Royal Society in this period, and shows that the success of these practices was largely based on their multiple roles within the Society, where singular experiences not only promoted natural historical and medical knowledge but also played a social and epistemological role. However, singular experiences were problematic in terms of authentication and the book reveals how eighteenth-century literary satires made the Royal Society an easy and favoured target for their interest in them. The book demonstrates the variety and intricacy of elements involved in the making and circulation of natural knowledge in the period. It provides an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to the place of the singular in one of the oldest and most import scientific institutions in the world.

Esq

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Esq written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with American literature categories.