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Louis Frédéric Ancillon

b. 1740
d. 1814

Ancillon has left some writings on the philosophy of religion and on sacred literature besides diverse memoirs inserted into the publications of the Berlin Academy. We have one memoir bearing on probability published in Mémoires de l'Acad... Berlin for the years 1794 and 1795, pages 3-32, in the portion devoted to speculative philosophy. It is "Doutes sur les bases du calcul des probabilités.