1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005428770403321

Autore

Childe, Vere Gordon <1892-1957>

Titolo

The Danube in prehistory / by V. Gordon Childe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press, 1929

Descrizione fisica

XVIII, 479 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

ARCH. PR 024 8

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002498119707536

Autore

Berry, Brian Joe Lobley <1934- >

Titolo

Urban-rural duality in the regional structure of Andhra Pradesh : a challenge to regional planning and development / by Brian J. L. Berry and V. L. S. Prakasa Rao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner, 1968

Descrizione fisica

49 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Collana

Geographische Zeitschrift. Erdkundliches wissen, Schriftenfolge fur Forschung und Praxis ; 21

Altri autori (Persone)

Prakasa Rao, V. L. S.

Disciplina

915.4

Soggetti

Geografia - India - Andhra Pradesh

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00311181

Autore

JACKSON, Roy

Titolo

Nietzsche and Islam / Roy Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2007

ISBN

978-04-15-36855-1

Descrizione fisica

194 p. ; 24 cm

Classificazione

ARA VII A

Soggetti

ISLAM E FILOSOFIA TEDESCA - NIETZCHE

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963549703321

Autore

Campe Rüdiger

Titolo

The game of probability : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist / / Rüdiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2012]

ISBN

9780804784665

0804784663

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (503 pages)

Collana

Cultural memory in the present

Disciplina

809/.93384

Soggetti

European literature - 17th century - History and criticism

European literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Probability in literature

Probabilitat en la literatura

Literatura europea - S. XVII - Història i crítica

Literatura europea - S. XVIII - Història i crítica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in German under the title Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit."



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Part I.  Games for Example; 1. Theology and the Law: Dice in the Air; 2. Numbers and Calculation in Context: The Game of Decision-Pascal; 3. Writing the Calculation of Chances: Justiceand Fair Game-Christiaan Huygens; 4. Probability, a Postscript to the Theory of Chance: Logic and Contractual Law-Arnauld, Leibniz, Pufendorf; 5. Probability Applied: Ancient Topoi and the Theory of Games of Chance-Jacob Bernoulli; 6. Continued Proclamations: The Law of logica probabilium-Leibniz; 7. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or, The Improbability of Survival

Part II. Verisimilitude Spelled Out8. Numbers and Tables in Narration: Juristsand Clergymen and Their Bureaucratic Hobbies; 9. Novels and Tables: Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Schnabel's Die Insel Felsenburg; 10. The Theory of Probability and the Form of the Novel: Daniel Bernoulli on Utility Value, the Anthropology of Risk, and Gellert's Epistolary Fiction; 11. "Improbable Probability": The Theory of the Novel and Its Trope-Fielding's Tom Jones and Wieland's Agathon; 12. The Appearance of Truth: Logic, Aesthetics,and Experimentation-Lambert

13. "Probable" or Plausible": Mathematical Formula Versus Philosophical Discourse-Kant14. Kleist's "Improbable Veracities," or, A Romantic Ending; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet. Campe begs to differ. Mathematical probability, he argues, took over the role of the old probability of poets, orators, and logicians, albeit in scientific terms. Indeed, mathematical probability would not even have been possible without the other probability, whose roots lay in classical antiquity. The Game of Probability revisits the seventeenth and eighteenth-century ""probabilistic revolution,"" providing a history of the re