References and further reading

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Bernoulli, D. (1760), ‘Essai d’une nouvelle analyse de la mortality causee par la petite verole, et des avantages de l’inoculation pour la prevenir’, in ‘Memoires de Mathematiques et de Physique tires des registres de l’Academie Royale des Sciences de l’annee 1760’, Histoire et Memoires de l’Academie Royale des Sciences de Paris, Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1766, pp. 1-45.

Daston, L. (1979), ‘D’Alembert’s critique of probability theory’, Historia Mathematica, 6 (3), 259-79.

Daston, L. (1980), ‘Probabilistic expectation and rationality in classical probability theory’, Historia Mathematica, 7 (3), 234 60.

Daston, L. (1988), Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Daston, L. (1989), ‘L’interpretation classique du calcul des probabilites’, Annales. Economies, Societes, Civilisations, 44 (3), 715-31.

Daston, L. (1994), ‘How probabilities came to be objective and subjective’, Historia Mathematica, 21 (3), 330-44.

Dutka, J. (1988), ‘On the St. Petersburg paradox’, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 39 (1), 13-39.

Faccarello, G. (2006), ‘An “exception culturelle”? French Sensationist political economy and the shaping of public economics’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 13 (1), 1-38.

Hacking, I. (1975), The Emergence of Probability. A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hald, A. (1990), History of Probability and Statistics and their Applications before 1750, Hoboken: Wiley.

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Jorland, G. (1987), ‘The Saint Petersburg paradox 1713-1937’, in L. Kruger, L. Daston and M. Heidelberger (eds), The Probabilistic Revolution, vol. I: Ideas in History, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 157-90.

Kohli, K. (1975), ‘Zur Publikationsgeschichte der Ars Conjectandi’, in B.L. van der Waerden (ed.), Die Werke von Jakob Bernoulli, vol. 3, Basel: Bikhauser, pp. 391-401.

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Yushkevich, A.P. (1987), ‘Nicholas Bernoulli and the publication of James Bernoulli’s Ars Conjectandi’, Theory of Probability and its Applications, 31 (2), 286-303.