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Hi,

This is the best book I have found on the foundations of inductive thought
and probability as used today  (in fact I thought it was so good I bought
my own copy!) :

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     LC Call Number: QA276.15 .S75 1986

             Author: Stigler, Stephen M.

              Title: The history of statistics : the measurement of uncertainty
                      before 1900 / Stephen M. Stigler.

   Publication Info: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University
                      Press, 1986.
  Phys. Description: xvi, 410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

              Notes: Bibliography: p. 374-398.
              Notes: Includes index.
           Subjects: Statistics--History.

     LC Card Number:    85030499
               ISBN: 0-674-40340-1 (alk. paper)


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Also, I have not read this one, but it came up when I tried to find Stigler:

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   Type of Material: Book

     LC Call Number: QA276.15 .P44 1978

             Author: Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936.

              Title: The history of statistics in the 17th and 18th centuries
                      against the changing background of intellectual,
                      scientific, and religious thought : lectures by Karl
                      Pearson given at University College, London, during the
                      academic sessions, 1921-1933 / edited by E. S. Pearson.

   Publication Info: London : C. Griffin, c1978.
  Phys. Description: xix, 744 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.


              Notes: Bibliography: p. 732-734.
              Notes: Includes index.

           Subjects: Mathematical statistics--History--17th century--Addresses,
                      essays, lectures.
           Subjects: Mathematical statistics--History--18th century--Addresses,
                      essays, lectures.

        Other Names: Pearson, E. S. (Egon Sharpe), 1895-

     LC Card Number:    79318701 //r85
               ISBN: 0-85264-250-4 :  7.50


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