Miscellaneous Investigations
to 1700
- [1592] Giovanni Botero. La relationi universali di Giovanni Botero ... Da lui corrette, & ampliate... Prima Parte. Ferrara. Edition of 1595
- [1619] Thomas Gataker. On the nature and use of lots. London.
This concerns lotteries.
- [1622] Richard Crakanthorp. "De syllogismo probabili." Logicae libri quinque...
Londini: Ex officina Iohannis Legati, impensis Iohannis Teage. 2nd. ed. (1641) ... Huic accessit introoductio in metaphysicam; et tractatus de providentia Dei... Editio secund priori auctrior et emedatior. Londini: Typis & impensis Roberti Young. 3rd ed. (1677) Oxonii.
- [1661] M. Thubeuf. Les éléments et principes de la
royale et véritable arithmétique aux jettons & à la plume, etc. Paris.
- [1665] John Bell. London
Remembrancer: or, a true accompt of every particular weeks christnings
and mortality in all the years of pestilence within the cognizance of
the Bills of Mortality, etc. London: E. Cotes.
- [1668] Nicholaus Mercator. Logarithmo-technia;
sive methodus construendi logarithmos nova, accurata, et facilis...
Cui... accedit vera quadratura hyperbole, et inventio summae
logarithmorum; huic etiam jungitur Michaelis Angeli Ricii exercitatio
goemetrica de maximis et minimis. Londinii.
- [1670] Juan Caramuel, Mathesis Biceps: Kybeia.
- [1670 - 1705] Gottlieb Leibniz.
Miscellaneous manuscripts and letters associated with the theory of
probability.
- [1675] Frenicle de Bessy, Abrégés des Combinaisons.
Frènicle died in 1675. The work was printed in 1729. However, it
clearly must have been composed prior to 1675.
- [1679] Joseph Sauveur, Supputation des Avantages du Banquier dans
le Jeu de la Bassete.
- [1682] Ismaël Boulliau. Ismaelis
Bullialdi opus novum ad arithmeticam infinitorum libris sex
comprehensum, in quo plura à nullis hactenus edita demonstrantur. Lutetiae Parisorium: Sumptibus viduae J. Pocquet.
A new work on the arithmetic of the infinite in six books.
- [1685] Isaac Vossius. Variarum Observationum Liber. London: R. Scott.
A book of various observations.
- [1686] Jean Baptiste Thiers.
Traité des jeux et des divertissemens, qui peuvent être permis, ou qui
doivent être défendus aux Chrêtiens, selon les règles de l'Église et le
sentiment des Pères. Paris: Antoine Dezallier.
- [1694] Thomas Hyde. Mandragorias,
seu historia Shahiludii... De ludis Orientalium libri primi pars prima,
quae est Latina... De ludis Orientalium libri primi pars 2de, quae est
Hebraica ... Praemittuntur de Shahludio prolegomena curiosa &
materiarum elenchus. 3 pt. Oxonii: E. Theatro Sheldonanio. This is a treatise on chess.
- [1699] John Craig and
George Hooper, On the
Credibility of Testimony.