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- ↑ "A Letter from the Late Reverend Mr. Thomas Bayes, F.R.S. to John Canton, M.A. and F.R.S." (PDF). 1763-11-24. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
- ↑ Bayes, Thomas (1764). "An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances. By the late Rev. Mr. Bayes, communicated by Mr. Price, in a letter to John Canton" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . 53. London: 370–418. doi: 10.1098/rstl.1763.0053 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-10. Retrieved 2011-10-15. Read December 23, 1763.
- ↑ McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch (2011). The Theory That Would Not Die . New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16969-0.
- ↑ Euler, L. (1763). "Theoremata arithmetica nova methodo demonstrata". Novi commentarii academiae scientiarum imperialis Petropolitanae. 8. Saint-Petersburg: 74–104.
- ↑ "An Account of the Success of the Bark of the Willow in the Cure of Agues. In a Letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, President of R.S. from the Rev. Mr. Edmund [sic.] Stone, of Chipping-Norton in Oxfordshire". Philosophical Transactions. 53. London: Royal Society. 1763.
- ↑ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.