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The anonymous writer, who, in 1692, published the first English essay "Of the Laws of Chance," thought it necessary to protest in his preface that the design of his book was "not to teach the art of playing at dice, but to deal with them as with other epidemic distempers, and perhaps persuade a raw squire to keep his money in his pocket."

John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune

John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune

John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune

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Born: 1801

Died: August 12, 1851 (aged 50)

Bio: John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, previously John Elliot Drinkwater, a barrister and law member of the Governor-General's Council, was an Anglo-Indian lawyer and a pioneer in promoting women's education in 19th-century India.

Known for:

The life of Galileo Galilei
On Probability (1830)

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