The game of probability : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist

Content: Introduction
 Part I. Games for Example
 1. Theology and the Law: Dice in the Air
 2. Numbers and Calculation in Context: The Game of Decision-Pascal
 3. Writing the Calculation of Chances: Justiceand Fair Game-Christiaan Huygens
 4. Probability, a Postscript to the Theory of Chance: Logic and Contractual Law-Arnauld, Leibniz, Pufendorf
 5. Probability Applied: Ancient Topoi and the Theory of Games of Chance-Jacob Bernoulli
 6. Continued Proclamations: The Law of logica probabilium-Leibniz
 7. Defoe\'s Robinson Crusoe, or, The Improbability of Survival. Part II. Verisimilitude Spelled Out8. Numbers and Tables in Narration: Juristsand Clergymen and Their Bureaucratic Hobbies
 9. Novels and Tables: Defoe\'s A Journal of the Plague Year and Schnabel\'s Die Insel Felsenburg
 10. The Theory of Probability and the Form of the Novel: Daniel Bernoulli on Utility Value, the Anthropology of Risk, and Gellert\'s Epistolary Fiction
 11. \"Improbable Probability\": The Theory of the Novel and Its Trope-Fielding\'s Tom Jones and Wieland\'s Agathon
 12. The Appearance of Truth: Logic, Aesthetics, and Experimentation-Lambert. 13. \"Probable\" or Plausible\": Mathematical Formula Versus Philosophical Discourse-Kant14. Kleist\'s \"Improbable Veracities,\" or, A Romantic Ending
 Conclusion
 Notes
 Bibliography.