A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities

marquis de Pierre Simon Laplace

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

ERRATA.

PART I. A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY ON PROBABILITIES. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.

PART II. APPLICATIONS OF THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES. CHAPTER VI. GAMES OF CHANCE.

Transcriber's Note:

Apparent typographical errors have been corrected.

The corrections noted in the Errata section have been incorporated in the text. Three further corrections have also been made: 9/10 in place of 1/10, and 9/10 in place of 6/10, on page 110; and "ex voto" in place of "ex veto" on page 173.

A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY
ON
PROBABILITIES.

BY
PIERRE SIMON, Marquis de LAPLACE.

TRANSLATED FROM THE SIXTH FRENCH EDITION
BY

FREDERICK WILSON TRUSCOTT, Ph.D. (Harv.),
Professor of Germanic Languages in the West Virginia University,

AND

FREDERICK LINCOLN EMORY, M.E. (Wor. Poly. Inst.),
Professor of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics in the West Virginia
University; Mem. Amer. Soc. Mech. Eng.

FIRST EDITION.
FIRST THOUSAND.

NEW YORK:
JOHN WILEY & SONS.
London: CHAPMAN & HALL, Limited.
1902.

ROBERT DRUMMOND PRINTER, NEW YORK

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