| Introduction |
| The Development of Mathematical Statistics in Astronomy and Geodesy before 1827 / Part 1： |
| Least Squares and the Combination of Observations Legendre in 1805 / 1： |
| Cotes's Rule Tobias Mayer and the Libration of the Moon Saturn, Jupiter, and Enter Laplace's Rescue of the Solar System |
| the Figure of the Earth Laplace and the Method of Situation / Roger Boscovich |
| Legendre and the Invention of Least Squares |
| Probabilists and the Measurement of Uncertainty / 2： |
| Jacob Bernoulli De Moivre and the Expanded Binomial Bernoulli's Failure De Moivre's |
| Inverse Probability Laplace and Inverse Probability / Approximation De Moivre's Deficiency Simpson and Bayes Simpson's Crucial Step toward Error A Bayesian Critique： |
| The Choice of Means |
| The Deduction of a Curve of Errors in 1772-1774 |
| Least Squares and the Combination of Observations Legendre in 1805 Cotes's |
| Rule Tobias Mayer and the Libration of the Moon Saturn, Jupiter, and Enter Laplace's Rescue of the Solar System |
| the Invention of Least Squares / Legendre |
| Probabilists and the Measurement of Uncertainty Jacob Bernoulli De Moivre and the Expanded Binomial |
| Bernoulli's Failure De Moivre's |
| Approximation De Moivre's Deficiency / Simpson ; Bayes Simpson's Crucial Step toward Error A Bayesian Critique |
| Introduction |
| The Development of Mathematical Statistics in Astronomy and Geodesy before 1827 / Part 1： |
| Least Squares and the Combination of Observations Legendre in 1805 / 1： |
| Cotes's Rule Tobias Mayer and the Libration of the Moon Saturn, Jupiter, and Enter Laplace's Rescue of the Solar System |
| the Figure of the Earth Laplace and the Method of Situation / Roger Boscovich |
| Legendre and the Invention of Least Squares |
