Book ID: CBB000740239

Designing Experiments and Games of Chance: The Unconventional Science of Blaise Pascal (2003)

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Shea, William R. (Author)


Science History Publications


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xii + 354 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Dear, Peter (2005) Review of "Designing Experiments and Games of Chance: The Unconventional Science of Blaise Pascal". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (p. 478). unapi

Review Hon, Giora (2006) Review of "Designing Experiments and Games of Chance: The Unconventional Science of Blaise Pascal". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 334). unapi

Review Jones, Matthew L. (2006) Review of "Designing Experiments and Games of Chance: The Unconventional Science of Blaise Pascal". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 561). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Altashina, Veronika
Schuster, John
Chalmers, Alan Francis
Todhunter, Isaac
Saito, Fumikazu
Pastorino, Cesare
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Perspectives on Science
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Publishers
Springer
World Scientific
Thoemmes Press
Springer-Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Basic Books
Concepts
Mathematics
Physics
Probability and statistics
Experiments and experimentation
Methodology of science; scientific method
Fluid mechanics
People
Pascal, Blaise
Newton, Isaac
Fermat, Pierre de
Laplace, Pierre Simon
Kepler, Johannes
Malynes, Gerard de
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
16th century
20th century, early
Places
England
Great Britain
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