Miscellaneous Investigations 1801-1830
This period is marked by the publication of Laplace's Théorie Analytique des
Probabilités
in 1812 and followed shortly thereafter with the Essai
Philosophique sur les probabilités in
1814.
Documents are sorted by language and then year of
publication.
Publications in English
- [1800] Frederick Morton Eden.
An estimate of the number of inhabitants in Great Britain and Ireland.
London.
- [1807] Thomas Young (signed Hydrophilus)
"Example of a Calculation in the Doctrine of Chances; a Tide Table; and
Remarks on the breaking of Waves. In a Letter from a Correspondent," Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts. (Nicholson's) Vol. 18, pp. 116- 121.
- [1807] Daniel Boileau. An Essay on the Study of
Statistics. This is a syllabus for lectures intended to assist the
inquiries of inexperienced travelers.
- [1808] Opsimath. "Doubts respecting some of the received Doctrines of Chance. In a Letter from a Correspondent.
Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts (Nicholson's) Vol. 21. pages 66-68.
This is followed by a response "Some further Remarks on the Doctrine of Chance, in a Letter from a Correspondent. (B.H.)
Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts (Nicholson's) Vol. 21 pages 121-124.
The exchange continues with "Remarks on the Doctrine of Chance, in Answer to Opsimath, in a Letter from W. Saint, Esq."
Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts (Nicholson's) Vol. 21 pages 204-210.
The matter is finally laid to rest by the editor with "Further Remarks on the Doctrine of Chance" by Opsimath.
Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts (Nicholson's) Vol. 21 pages 210-214. Included here are the comments by the editor.
- [1808] Nathaniel Bowditch. "Solution of Mr. Patterson's Prize Question for
correcting a survey proposed in No. II, page 42, No. III. page 68." The Analyst;
or Mathematical Museum 1.4 pp. 88-94. This may have prompted Adrain to write his
article.
- [1808] Robert Adrain "Research concerning the
probabilities of the errors which happen in making observations, &."
The
Analyst or Math. Museum 1. pp. 93-109. This paper is difficult to
locate, but was partially reprinted by Cleveland Abbe in the
American Journal of Science (1871), Vol. 101, pp. 411-415 and in
Mansfield Merriman
A List of Writings Relating to the Method of Least Squares (1877),
pp. 163-165. This latter is an extract from
The Transactions of the Connecticut Academy, Vol. IV, 1877.
- [1813] Francis Bailey.
The Doctrine of Life-Annuities and Assurances.
- [1814] William Rouse The Doctrine of Chances or the
Theory of Gaming. This is a
very elementary text that presents a short history of gambling
instruments and of solves various problems concerning the games of
Whist, dice, an interesting dice game called "The Game of Points",
Lotteries, horse racing. It terminates with several miscellaneous
problems and tables to assist the gambler.
- [1815] Joshua Milne.
A treatise on the valuation of annuities and assurances on lives and
survivorships. London.
- [1817] John Leslie.
The philosophy of arithmetic...one hundred. Edinburgh. 2nd
edition., enlarged (1820))
- [1817-18] Benjamin Gompertz. The principles and
applications of imaginary quantities (Book
I, to which are added some observations on porisms; and Book II, derived
from a particular case of functional projections). London.
- [1818] Robert Adrain "Investigation of the Figure of the Earth and of the Gravity in different Latitudes,"
Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., Vol. 1, pp. 119-135.
This includes an application of the method of least squares to find a
formula for the length of the seconds pendulum.
- [1818] Robert Adrain "Research concerning the mean diameter of the Earth,"
Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., Vol. 1, pp. 353-336.
- [1818] Adam Seybert.
Statistical annals, embracing views of the populations, commerce,
navigation, fisheries,... of the United States of America founded on
official documents. Philadelphia.
- [1819] Thomas Young
"Remarks on the probabilities of error in physical observations, and on
the density of the earth, considered, especially with regard to the
reduction of experiments on the pendulum.' Phil. Trans. for 1819, pp. 70-95.
A portion of this article is devoted to the theory of errors. Also see Volume II
of collected works.
- [1820] Benjamin Gompertz. "A
sketch of an analysis and notation applicable to the value of life
contingencies." Phil. Trans. 110, 214-94. (Errata
(1825): 115, 584-5.)
- [1822]
George Harvey. "On the Method of Minimum Squares, employed in the
reduction of experiments, being a translation of the Appendix to an
Essay of Legendre's entitled: 'Nouvelles Methodes pour la Determination des Orbites des Cometes,' with remarks."
The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 7, pp. 292- 301.
- [1823] Charles Babbage. "An examination of some questions connected with games
of chance". Transactions of the Royal
Society of Edinburgh, Vol. IX. Pages 153-177. The paper concerns the betting system known as the martingale. It was
read March 21, 1820.
- [1825] Benjamin Gompertz. "On
the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality; and on
a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies. In a letter to
Francis Bailey." Phil. Trans., 115, 513-83.
- [1825] James Ivory. "On the Method of Least Squares", Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine, Vol. LXV, pp. 3-10, 81-86, 161-168
- [1826] James Ivory, "On the Method of Least Squares", Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine, Vol. LXVIII, pp. 161-165.
- [1826] Thomas Young. "A
formula for expressing the decrement of human life (in a letter addressed to
Sir E.H. East, Bart, M.P. F.R.S.)" Phil. Trans., 116
(3), 281-303.
- [1827] Thomas Young (signed a Correspondent) "Practical Application of the Doctrine of Chances, as it regards the Subdivision of Risks," Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts 22, pp. 84-94.
Also see Volume II of collected works.
- [1828] Dugald Stewart.
On the calculus of probabilities, in reference to the preceding argument for
the existence of God from final causes. The philosophy of the active
and moral powers of man. (2 vol. Edinburgh & London), 2,
pp. 107-19.
Volume I and
Volume 2.
- [1829] Samuel Bailey.
Essays on the pursuit of truth, on the progress of knowledge and on the
fundamental principle of all evidence and expectation. London.
- [1829] John Finlaison. Report of John Finlaison,
Actuary of the National Dept., on the evidence and elementary facts on which
the Tables of Life-Annuities are founded. (Ordered by the House of Commons
to be printed 31 March, 1829.)
- [1830] John William Lubbock and John Elliot Drinkwater-Bethune.
On Probability. This work appeared as part of the Library of Useful Knowledge. It contains a discussion of inverse probability.
- [1830] J.W. Lubbock. ``On the calculation of annuities, and on some questions in the theory of chances." Read May 26, 1828.
Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 3, Part 1. Pages 141- 154 with several pages of life tables following.
Publications in French
See separate pages for Adrien-Marie
Legendre, Simon Denis
Poisson, and Joseph Fourier.
- [1801] Sébastien Antointe Parisot.
L'art
de conjecturer à la loterie.
This is based on the Genoise lotto and the Lottery of Paris.
- [1801] C. Gardon. Antipathies des 90 nombres,
probabilités et observations comparative, sur les loteries de France et de
Bruxelles. Paris.
- [1801]
Josef Niklas
Windisch-Graetz. Refutation
of the errors of d'Alembert. D'Alembert
wrote extensively on what he thought were problems with
the foundations of the theory. See also Niklaus Bernoulli and Daniel Bernoulli.
-
[1802] Andre-Marie Ampere.
Considerations
sur la théorie mathématique du jeu. In
this work, Ampere argues for the certainty of gambler's ultimate ruin.
For English see Considerations of the mathematical theory of the game.
-
[1804]
Gaspar Riche de Prony.
Recherches physico-mathématiques sur la théorie des eaux courantes.
Paris.
- [1803] Daniel Encontre. "Mémoire sur la théorie des probabilités". Receuils Bulletin de Montpelier.
Vol. 1. pp. 9-13. Encontre
takes exception to the solutions presented by Cousin in his calculus
text. He solves Mairan's problem of even and odd and the
division
of stakes.
- [1803] Jacques Lablée.
Des jeux de hasard au commencement du 19éme siècle. Paris.
- [1805] Daniel Encontre. "On différens Problèmes relatifs à la théorie des combinaisons". Recueil Bulletins Montpelier Vol. 2
pp. 68-76. This paper is in the form of a letter to an unknown
Professor of Mathematics regarding the probability that the partners in
the game of Sizette are seated contiguously. A description of the game
may be found in the game section of the Encyclopédie Methodique
attached to volume 3. This game is played by 6 people sitting in a
circle.
-
[1805] Louis Puissant Traité de Géodésie,
Volume 1,
Volume 2. Second edition in 1819:
Volume 1,
Volume 2; Third edition in 1842:
Volume 1,
Volume 2.
-
[1805] C. Gardon. Traité élémentaires des probabilités,
etc. Paris.
- [1805] Jons Svanberg Exposition des opérations faites en Lapponie, pour la détermination d'un arc du méridien en 1801, 1802, et 1803,... (Stockholm)
- [1805] Denis François Donnant.
Théorie élémentaire de la statistique. Paris.
- [1806-10] Jean Baptiste Delambre (ed.) Base
du Systême Métrique Décimal, ou Mesure de l'Arc du Méridien Compris
entre les Parallèlles de Dunkerque et Barcelone, Executée in 1792 et
Années Suivantes, par MM. Méchain et Delambre. Vol. 1, 1806; Vol. 2, 1807; Vol. 3, 1810.
- [1810] Seb.-Ant. Parisot.
Traité du calcul conjectural, ou l'art de raisonner sur les choses futures
et inconnues. Paris.
- [1812]
François Corbaux.
Essais
métaphysiques et mathématiques sur le Hasard, Volume I The topic is the game of Twenty-one. The author
promised to complete his work in a second volume but I have seen no
evidence of it.
- [1813] Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana "Mémoire sur divers problèmes de probabilité". Mémoires de
l'Académie Impériale des Sciences Turin, for the years
1811-1812, Pages 355-408. Plana concerned himself with the approximation of functions developed by
Laplace in
"Mémoire
sur les approximations des formules qui sont fonctions de
très-grands nombres," Mém.
Acad. R. Sci. Paris, 1782 (1785), p. 1-88.
- [1813] Jean Baptiste Delambre. Abrégé d'Astronomie, ou Leçons Élémentaire d'Astronomie Théorique et Pratique. (Paris)
- [1813-14] Claude Louis Mathieu."Sur les expériences du
pendule, faites par les navigateurs espagnols, en différens points du
globe," Connaissance des Tems pour 1816, pp. 314-332.
- [1814-16] Charles Julien Brianchon. "Recherches sur un jeu des combinaisons" Correspondance sur École Royale Polytechnique 3 (Jan. 1814-Jan 1816), pp. 387-392. We have here a combinatorial magic trick.
- [1815-16] Joseph Diaz Gergonne. "Application de la méthode des
moindres quarrés à l'interpolation des suites."
Annales de mathématiques pures et appliquées 6 pp.
242-252.
- [1816] Sylvestre Lacroix.
Traité
élémentaire du calcul des probabilités.
This
work follows the desire of Condorcet to introduce the applications of
the theory to the social sciences in the schools. It includes
Bernoulli's Theorem, development of inverse probability, treatment of
annuities, and the analysis of testimony and decisions by
electorate. 2nd edition 1822; 3rd ed. 1833; 4th ed. 1864. German
translation 1818, Erfurt: von E.S. Unger.
- [1818] C.F. de Nieuport.
Un
peu de tout, ou Amusemens d'un sexagénaire, depuis 1807 jusqu'en 1816
by . On pages 67 - 147the author engages in conversation with abbé on the nature
of probability and an attempt to resolve the Petersburg Paradox.
- [1820] C. F. de Nieuport. "Mémoire sur un cas de la théorie des probabilités au jeu". Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles. Vol. 1 (1789-1820) pages 89-99.
- [1820] James Smyll. Tactique des jeux de hasard.
(Atlas) 2 parts.
- [1821-1822] Subscriber. "Probabilités. dissertation sur la recherche du
milieu
le plus probable, entre les résultats de plusieurs observations ou
experiences". Annales
de Mathématiques pures et appliquées, T.
12, pages 181-204. As the title indicates, this concerns the
most probable mean. It investigates the various methods used to find it.
- [1821] G. Graberg de Hemsö. Théorie de la statistique.
Trans. (1835):
Theorie der Statistik. Aachen und Leipzig.
- [1824] Louis Puissant "Application de la methode la plus avantageuse à la determination
de l'aplatissement du sphéroide osculateur en France, par le comparaison
d'un arc de méridien avec un arc de paralléle."
Férussac's Bulletin Sci. Math., vol. 1, pp. 271-274.
Also "Supplément à la détermination des longitudes terrestres par les
observations azimutales,"
Connaissances des Tems for 1827, pp. 230-232.
- [1825] Luis Marie Prospeu Coste.
Des déviations ou de la probabilité du tir des projectiles. Paris.
- [1826] C. F. de Nieuport. "Mémoire sur une question relative au calcul des probabilités."
Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles. Vol. 3, pages 141-152.
- [1827]
A. Bourvard. "Mémoire sur les observations météorologiques, faites à
l'Observatoire Royal de Paris,"
Mém. Acad. R. Sci. Inst. Fr.
7, pp.
267-343.
- [1828] Le Brun. Manuel des jeux de calcul et de
hasard. (1832
edition.)
- [1828] R. Lobatto. "Additon à la solution du problème sur les valeurs moyennes des
nombres." Corréspondance math. phys. (Bruxelles),
4, 233-4.
- [1828] Adolfe Quetelet.
Instructions Populaires sur le calcul des probabilités.
Bruxelles.
- [1828] Bobillier.
Sur les valeurs moyennes des nombres. Corresp. Math. Phys.
(Bruxelles), 4, 172-3.
- [1829] Antoine Augustin Cournot."Solution d'un problème d'analyse combinatoire,"
Bulletin des sciences mathématiques, physiques et chimiques. 11, pp. 93-97.
- [1829] L.R. Villermé. "Mémoire sur la taille de 'homme en France."
Annales d'hygiène publique et de médicine légale 1. pp. 351-399.
- [1829] J.J. Weih.
Traité des jeux de la Roulette et du Trente-un, ou de la Rouge et Noire.
A Bade. (French and German)
- [1830] Louis-Benjamin Francoeur.
Astronomie pratique: Usage et composition de la connaissance des tems.
See the section entitled "De la composition des formules astronomiques, et
de la détermination des constantes; Équations de condition; Méthodes de
Tobie Mayer et des moindres carrés," pp. 412-431. Ivory's proof is
given.
Publications
in German
- [1804] Johann Georg Meusel.
Lehrbuch der Statistik. 4th edition.
- [1805] Franz Xavier von Zach. "Versuch einer auf Erfahrung gegrundeten Bestimmung terrestrischer Refractionen," Monatliche Corresponenz 11, pp 389-415, 485-504.
- [1805] Leopold Krug. Betrachtungen über den
National-Reichum des preuzischen Staates. 2 vol. Berlin.
Erster Theil und
Zweiter Theil.
- [1805] Ignaz Niederhuber.Beiträge
zur Kultur der medicinischen und bürgerlichen Bevölkerungs-Policei.
- [1806] Franz Xavier von Zach.
"II Comet vom Jahr 1805."
Monatliche Corresponenz 14, pp. 181-186.
- [1806] Kammer-Roth von Lindenau. "Über den Gebrauch der Gradmessungen zur Bestimmung der Gestalt der Erde. Monatliche Corresponenz 14, pp. 113-158.
Application of Gauss' method of elimination to estimate elements and their
probable errors.
- [1806] Hans Ernst von Globig.
Versuch einer Theorie der Wahrscheinlichkeit, Vol. 1. This
is a work on law.The first volume develops the theory. The second
apparently suggests application toward correcting evidence.
- [1817] August Ferdinand Lueder.
Kritische Geschichte der Statistik.
- [1818] Bernhard von Lindenau
"Versuch einer Bestimmung der wahrscheinlichsten Bahn des Cometen von
1680, mit Rücksicht auf die planetarischen Störungen während der Dauer
seiner Sichtbarkeit,"
Zeitschrift für Astronomie, Vol. VI, pp. 27-120, 129-208.
- [1818] Joseph Johann von Littrow "Ueber die gerade Aufsteigung der vornehmsten Fixsterne," Zeitschrift für Astronomie, Vol. VI, pp. 1-26.
- [1818] Joseph Johann von Littrow "Anwendung der
Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung auf geodätische Operationen von Laplace."
Zeitschrift für Astronomie, Vol. V, pp. 2-24.
- [1818] Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana
"Allgemeine Formeln, um nach der Methode der kleinsten Quadrate die
Verbesserungen von 6 Elementen zu berechnen, und zugleich das jeder
derselben zukommende Gewicht zu bestimmen.
Zeitschrift für Astronomie und verwandte Wissenschaften 6, pp. 249-270.
- [1819] Magnus Georg von Paucker Ueber die Anwendung der methode der kleinsten
Quadratssumme auf physikalischen Beobachtungen. Mitau, 32 pages. This
was published as a Gymnasium Programme. This paper concerns
application of the method of least squares. The article 'Beobachtung' in
Gehler's Physicalisches Wörterbuch 2nd ed. Vol. 1 (1825) pp. 884-912
contains material from 1823 Gauss and Paucker.
- [1819] Friedrich Wilhelm Tönnies.
Philosophischer Versuch über die Wahrscheinlichkeit with a forward by
Karl Christian von
Langsdorf. This is a translation the 3rd edition of Laplace's Essai
Philosophique sur les probabilités.
- [1820-8] August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome.
Geographisch-statistisch Darstellung der Staatskräfte von den sämtlichen,
zum deutschen Staatenbunde gehörigen Ländern, mit einer grossen
Verhältnisscharte von Deutschland. 4 Parts. Leipzig.
I Theil,
II Theil,
III Theil,
IV Theil.
- [1822] August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome.
Handbuch der Statistik des Grossherszogthums Hessen. Part I.
Darmstadt.
- [1822]
Johann Franz Encke
Die Entfernung der Sonne von der Erde aus dem Venusdurchgange von 1761, (Gotha) pp. 179. Part II entitled
Der Venusdurchgang von 1769 .... (Gotha, 1824) pp. 112.
The method of least squares is applied to the reduction of observations from the
transit of Venus. Encke computes the most probable distance of the Sun from the
Earth.
- [1822] Johann Helarich Elias Meyer. Allgemeine
Anleitung zur Berechnung der Leibrenten und Anwartschaften. Kopenhagen.
Erster Theil and
Zweiter Theil.
- [1825] G.W. Muncke. "Beobachtung,"
Gehler's Physikalisches Wörterbuch, 2nd ed. (Leipzig) Vol. 1, pp. 884-912.
- [1825] Johann Ludwig Casper II.
Beiträge zur medicinischen Statistik und Staatsarzneikunde. 2
Bd. Berlin.
- [1827] . "Über
die Gesetze der Bevölkerung und Sterbleikeit oder die Verhältnisse des
physischen Lebens der Einwohner Württembergs." Württembergische
Jahrb. f. vaterlandische Geschichte, Georg. Statist. u. Topogr.
- [1827] Rosenberger
"Ueber die, auf Veraustaltung der französischen Academie, während der
Jahre 1736 und 1737 im Schweden vorgenommene Gradmessung,"
Astron. Nachr., Vol. VI, col. 1-32. See
Hansen (1831) and
Abhandlungen von Bessel,
Bd. III, pp. 16-19.
- [1827] ________ Uber die Theorie der
Zuverlässigkeit Beobachtungen und Versuche und der von derselben abhängigen
Bestimmungen des Mittels aus gegebenen Zahlen. (Berlin) Merrimann lists
this anonymous work. This has not
been found.
- [1827] Nürnberger. "Betrachtungen über die Methode der kleinsten Quadrate,"
Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Görlitz
1, pp. 22-31.
- [1828]
Gustav Adolf Greisinger. "Berechnung der Vortheile des Banquiers im
Pharaospiele." [Computation of the advantages to the Banker in the Game of Pharaon]
Zeitschrift für Physik und Mathematik
4, pages
210-227.
- [1830] C. von Riese. '[Eine Recension.]'
Jahrbücher für Wissenschaftliche Kritik, 1 (1), col. 269-284.
This is but a review of Gauss' memoirs Theoria combinationis and Supplementum theoriae. It includes a discussion of the method of
Gauss.
- [1830] Carl Friedrich Hauber "Ueber die Bestimmung der Genauigkeit der Beobachtungen," Baumgartner's Zeitschrift für Physik und Mathematik
7, pp. 286-314.
- [1830] Carl Friedrich Hauber "Verallgemeinerung der
Poisson'schen Untersuchungen über die Wahrscheinlichkeit der mittlern resultate der Beobachtungen in den
Additions à la Connaiss. des tems de 1827,"
Zeitschrift für Physik und Mathematik
7, pp. 406-429.
- [1830-1832] Carl Friedrich Hauber "Theorie der mittleren Werth,"
Zeitschrift für Physik und Mathematik
8, pages 25-56 (sections 1-16), 147-178 (sections 17-27), 295-315 (sections 28 - 31), 443-455 (sections 32 - 34);
Zeitschrift für Physik und Mathematik
9, pages 302- 322 (sections 35 - 37); Zeitschrift für Physik und Mathematik
10, pages 425 - 457 (sections 38 - 44).
- [1830] Peter Andreas Hansen
Commentatio de gradus precisionis computatione.
(Gotha) See "Darlegung einer neuen Methode, bei Anwendung der Methode
der kleinsten Quadrate, die Gewichte der unbekannten Grössen zu
berechnen,"
Astron. Nachr. 8, col. 463-468, and
Encke in
Berlin Astron. Jahrbuch for 1835, p. 297.
He discusses the finding the weights of values determined by the method of
least squares.
- [1831] Peter Andreas Hansen
"Darlegung einer neuen Methode, bei Anwendung der
Methode der kleinsten Quadrate, der unbekannten Groössen zu berechnen,"
Astronomische
Nachrichten 8,
pp. 463-468. This paper is a simplification of Gauss' method of 1823 for
computing weights. It differs from his 1830 paper. See also 1832
Encke.
- [1831] Peter Andreas Hansen "Ueber die Anwendung der
Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung auf geodätische Vermessungen im Allgemein,
und über die Maupertuis'sche
Gradmessung. " Astronomische
Nachrichten 9,
pp. 189-204, 237-252. Gauss' method of correlatives (1828) is used. He gives the
algorithm in full and also introduces a new method.
Publications in
Italian
- [1806] Francesco Mario Pagano.
Logica de' probabili. Milano. The Bibliography of Statistics
gives Napoli.
- [1808] Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi. Elementi dell' Arte
Statistica. 2 parts.
Parte seconda.
- [1808] Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi. Saggio sulla
popolazione del Regno di Napoli. Naples.
- [1809] Melchiorre Giola.
Indole, estensione e vantaggi della statistica.
- [1811]
Giovanni Angelo de Cesaris. "Sul limite degli errori probabili
nelle osservazioni astronomiche." Milano,
Effemeridi Astronomiche, pp.
102-111.
- [1818] Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana "Soluzione generale di un problema di probabilità," Memorie di mathematica e di fisica della Società italiana delle Scienze Modena 18,1. pp. 31-45.
- [1819] Antonio Padovani. Introduzione alla scienza
della statistica. Pavie.
Primo Tomo
- [1822] Paolo Ruffini. Riflessioni Critiche sopra il Saggio Filosofico intorno alle probabilità del Sig. C. Laplace
fatte dal Dott. Paollo Ruffini Professore di Clinica Medica, di
Medicina pratica, e di Mathematica applicata nella R. Università di
Modena, Rettore della medesima, ec. Modena (1821)
Nuovo Giornale de'Letterati
1, pp. 201-212. The topic is Laplace's
Philosophical Essai.
- [1820] Luigi Rangoni. "Nuove considerazioni intorno ad un problema di probabilità,"
Memorie della Società Italiana della scienze Moderna,
18, Part 2, pp. 518-554.
- [1820, 1839] Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi. Saggio sulla
popolazione del Regno di Puglia ne'passati tempi e nel presente. 2
parts. Napoli.
Parte Prima and
Parte Seconda.
- [1821] Dottor Paolo Ruffini. Riflessioni Critiche sopra Il Saggio Filosofico intorno alle probabilità del Sig. Conte Laplace (Modena)
- [1821] Conte Pietro Abbati Marescotti. "Sopra un
Problema die Signori Daniele Bernoulli e De la Grange." Memorie di
matematica e di fisica della Società Italiana delle scienze, T.
19, pp. 385-480.
- [1822] Pietro Abbati Marescotti. "Sopra un Problema dei Signori Daniele Bernoulli, e de la Grange,"
Memorie della Società Italiana delle Scienze Modena
19 (fasic 2 matematica). pp. 385-480.
- [1822] Giuseppe Bianchi. "Riflessioni Critiche sopra il Saggio Filosofico intorno alle probabilità del Signor Marchese LAPLACE fatte dal Dott. Paolo RUFFINI."
Memorie di Religione, di Morale, e di Letteratura
1, pp. 57- 83, 181-209.
-
[1824] Antonio Padovani. Delle scienze statistiche.
Pavie.
-
[1824] Antonio Quadri.
Storia della statistica dalle sue origini sino alla fine del secolo XVIII...
Prospetto Statistico delle Provincie Venete. Venice.
- [1827] G. Bravi. Teorica e pratica del probabile. 2 vol.
Milano. 2nd ed.
Tomo I (1840) and
Tomo II (1840).
- [1829] Prospero Balbo. Saggi di aritmetica
politica.
- [1829-30] Melchiorre Giola. Filosofia della
statistica...opere dell'autore. 4 vols. Milano.
Tomo Primo,
Tomo Secondo,
Tomo Terzo,
Tomo Quarto.
Publications in Latin, &c.