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The probability of the future happiness of infants, who die in infancy, stated and considered. Contents. I. An introduction. II. Remarks on the different Opinions, of the Future State of Infants. III. Difficulties arising from the Case of Esau, and a notable Passage in Isaiah, removed. IV. Arguments, in Support of the Probability, of the Future Happiness of Infants, offered. V. Consolatory and cautionary Advice to Parents, who have been deprived of their Infant Offspring, given. VI. Observations from the whole. By Daniel Gillard.
Gillard, Daniel.Date: 1787- Books
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The case of Sir Jeremy Sambrooke, Baronet, fairly and impartially stated. Containing a full and exact account of the singular disorder in the eye of this gentleman. With A faithful Relation of the great Variety of uncommon Circumstances attending his Cure. And A clear Demonstration of the highest Probability of his Perfect Recovery. By J. Taylor, Doctor of Physick; Oculist to his Majesty; and Member of several of the Colleges of Physicians in Foreign Parts.
Taylor, John, 1703-1772.Date: 1743- Journals
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Combinatorics, probability & computing : CPC.
Date: c1992-- Books
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An answer to the letter addressed by Francis Riollay, Physician of Newbury, to Dr. Hardy, on the hints given concerning the origin of the gout, in his Publication on the Colic of Devon; In Which The several Objections made by Dr. Riollay are considered; and the Probability that the Gout originates from the Action of Mineral Substances, especially those conveyed into the Human System by the Medium of adulterated Wines, is more fully insisted on, by James Hardy, M.D.
Hardy, James, -1805.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Journals
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The annals of applied probability : an official journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Date: 1991-- Books
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Philosophical inquiries into the laws of animal life. In six chapters. By Hugh Smith, M. D. Of Hatton-Street. With a View to shew the Probability of Air being the first Cause of Motion in Animal Life; to point out the Mechanical Causes that concur in producing the Circulation of the Blood; and to explain the Laws of Respiration. These Inquiries are supported by Experiments, and founded on the Principles delivered in a Course of Philosophical Lectures, in the Beginning of the Year 1778. The Principles are set forth in the Author's Syllabus.
Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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A narrative of the remarkable affair between Mr. Simonds, The Polish Jew Merchant, and Mr. James Ashley, Merchant of Bread-Street, London. Wherein The Robbery at Cranford-Bridge, the several Trials at the Old-Bailey, King's-Bench; and Chelmsford, are particularly set forth. And An Impartial Enquity made into the Truth of the several Facts, sworn on both Sides; and the Whole of this intricate Business set in a clear and unprejudiced Light. Interspersed with Remarks on the Probability of Facts not yet discovered, and the Nature and Consequence of Perjury.
Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
The emergence of probability : a philosophical study of early ideas about probability, induction and statistical inference / Ian Hacking.
Hacking, Ian.Date: 1975- Books
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DeForest's formula for 'an unsymmetrical probability curve' / Shinkishi Hatai.
Hatai, Shinkishi.Date: 1910- Books
Classical probability in the Enlightenment / Lorraine Daston.
Daston, Lorraine, 1951-Date: [1988], ©1988- Books
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Classical probability in the Enlightenment / Lorraine Daston.
Daston, Lorraine, 1951-Date: [1988], ©1988- Books
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An enquiry into the nature and place of hell. Shewing I. The Reasonableness of a Future State. II. The Punishments of the next Life. III. The several Opinions concerning the Place of Hell. IV. That the Fire of Hell is not metaphorical, but real. V. The Improbability of that Fire's being in, or about the Center of the Earth. VI. The Probability of the Sun's being the Local Hell, with Reasons for this Conjecture; and the Objections from Atheism, Philosophy, and the Holy Scriptures, answered. By Tobias Swinden, M. A. Late Rector of Cuxton in Kent.
Swinden, Tobias, 1659-1719.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
Elementary principles of probability and information / R.F. Wrighton.
Wrighton, R. F.Date: [1973], ©1973- Books
Mathematical probability and the reasonable man of the eighteenth century / Lorraine J. Daston.
Daston, Lorraine J.Date: 1983- Books
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The spirit of popery displayed; or, the doctrine and discipline of the papal church, On the following several Heads of I. Unity of Doctrine, II. Blasphemy, III. Perjury, False-Witnessing, Equivocation, and Mental Reservation, IV. Idolatry and Irreligion, V. Robbery, Stealing, &c. VI. Murder, Vii. Parricide, &c. Viii. Treason and Re-Gicide, IX. Probability, X. Uncleanness, &c. XI. Prevarication of Judges, laid open and explained, in the very words of their most celebrated doctors and casuists. With a preface on the question, is faith to be kept with heretics? inscribed to the Respectable Associations in Britain, now United for the support of the Protestant Religion, by their affectionate brother, the editor.
Affectionate brother.Date: M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]- Books
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Remarks upon Capt. Middleton's defence: wherein his conduct during his late voyage for discovering a passage from Hudson's-Bay to the South-Sea is impartially examin'd; His Neglects and Omissions in that Affair fully Prov'd; The Falsities and Evasions in his Defence Expos'd; The Errors of his Charts laid open, and His Accounts of Currents, Streights, and Rivers, Confuted; Whereby it will appear, with the highest Probability, That there is such a Passage as he went in search of. With an appendix of original papers, and a map of the in-land and sea-coast of North-America in and about Hudson's-Bay. By Arthur Dobbs, Esq;
Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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The destiny of Rome: or, the Probability of the Speedy and Final Destruction of the Pope. Concluded Partly, from natural Reasons, and political Observations; and partly, on Occasion of the famous Prophesy of St. Malachy, Archbishop of Armagh, in the XIIth Century: Which Curious Piece, Containing Emblematical Characters of all the Popes, from his own Time to the utter Extirpation of them, is not only here entirely publish'd; but likewise set in a much clearer Light, than has ever hitherto been done. In a letter To a Divine of the Church of England, From a Divine of the Church of the First-Born.
Toland, John, 1670-1722.Date: 1718- Books
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The probability of reaching the North Pole discussed.
Barrington, Daines, 1727-1800.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
The Empire of chance : how probability changed science and everyday life / Gerd Gigerenzer [and others].
Date: 1989- Books
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The doctrine of chances: or, a method of calculating the probability of events in play / [Abraham de Moivre].
Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754.Date: 1756- Archives and manuscripts
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Typescript flow charts of 'probability round'and 'Elimination round'
Date: c.1960s-c.1970sReference: UGC 155/3/6/2/3/13Part of: Papers of Dr James Harrison Renwick, 1926-1994, geneticist, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Books
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The doctrine of chances: or, a method of calculating the probability of events in play / By A. De Moivre.
Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754.Date: 1718- Books
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A history of the mathematical theory of probability from the time of Pascal to that of Laplace / by I. Todhunter.
Todhunter, I. (Isaac), 1820-1884.Date: 1865- Books
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An epistle to Dr. Richard Mead, concerning the epidemical diseases of Virginia, particularly, a pleurisy and peripneumony: wherein is shewn the surprising efficacy of the seneca rattle-snake root, in Diseases owing to a Viscidity and Coagulation of the Blood; such as Pleurisies and Peripneumonies, these being epidemick, and very mortal in Virginia, and other Colonies on the Continent of America, and also the Lee-Ward Islands. To which is prefixt, A Cut of that most valuable Plant: And an appendix annexed, Demonstrating the highest Probability, that this Root will be of more extensive Use than any Medicine in the whole Materia Medica, and of curing the Gout, Rheumatism, Dropsy, and many nervous Diseases. By John Tennent.
Tennent, John, 1710-1748.Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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Reflections upon the constitution and management of the trade to Africa, through The whole Course and Progress thereof, from the Beginning of the last Century, to this Time. Wherein the nature and uncommon circumstances of that trade, are particularly consider'd; and all the Arguments urg'd alternately, by the Two contending Parties here, touching the different Methods now proposed by them, for carrying on the same, to a National Advantage, impartially stated and discussed. By all which, A clear View is given of such a Constitution, as (if establish'd by Act of Parliament) would, in all Probability, render the African Trade a permanent, creditable and advantageous Trade to Britain. Part III.
Davenant, Charles, 1656-1714.Date: [1709]