XXXVI. A view of the relation between the celebrated Dr. Halley's Tables, and the notions of Mr. De Buffon, for establishing a rule for the probable duration of the life of man
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Read May 31, § j , 'A tWYf ituation in life not perI7S3‘ mitting me to look over the works of the learned, was the reafon, why I was not one of the firft, who perufed the General and cular Natural HiJtoryy &c,of Mr. de Buffon. How ever a little interval of leifure allowing me to look into it, I am at a ftand to find myfelf mention’d, in the fame breath with tbs celebrated Dr. Halley and others, to receive our condemnation on account or the tables for determining the degrees of probability of the duration of human life: and as this paffage is the occafion of my remarks, I will begin by citing it intirely here: