Galileo Galilei
15 February 1564
8 January 1642
Only a short work on dice, Sopra
le
Scoperti dei Dadi, available at the York
site and in Appendix 2 of Gods,
Games and Gambling by F.N. David, , need be mentioned here.
According to David it was written between 1613 and 1623 but was not
published until 1718 as part of his collected works.