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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 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 as a method of freeing the mind from superstition?
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