Reviews : Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink, Theodore Porter, Lorraine Daston, John Beatty and Lorenz Kruger, The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, £30.00, xvii + 340 pp [Book Review]

History of the Human Sciences 3 (2):279-286 (1990)
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