Classical probability in the Enlightenment
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Classical probability in the Enlightenment
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, 1995, c1988
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"Originally ... a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University"--Pref
Originally published 1988
Bibliography: p. 387-412
Includes index
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What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus," in Laplace's words. In terms that can be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.
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