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• ... that polymath '''[[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]]''' published his translation of Christiaan Huygens's ''De ratiociniis in ludo aleae'' as "Of the Laws of Chance" in 1692 (the first work on [[Probability (nonfiction)|probability]] published in English), and that in 1701, Arbuthnot wrote another mathematical work, ''An essay on the usefulness of mathematical learning'', in a letter from a gentleman in the city to his friend in Oxford, in which Arbuthnot praises [[Mathematics (nonfiction)|mathematics]] as a method of freeing the mind from superstition?
• ... that mathematician and politician '''[[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]]''' observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which now known as eddy current?

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• ... that mathematician and politician François Arago observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which now known as eddy current?

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