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4 unusual facts about John Arbuthnot


Fortunato Felice

There he became friends with the Prince Raimondo di Sangro who aided him in his translation of the physicist John Arbuthnot's works from Latin.

John Tutchin

(He was, for example, a friend to John Arbuthnot, who was an avowed enemy of Tutchin.) Tutchin was found guilty, but the conviction was overthrown on a technicality, as the evidence had been improperly presented.

Principle of indifference

As observed some centuries ago by John Arbuthnot (in the preface of Of the Laws of Chance, 1692),

Three Hours After Marriage

Three Hours After Marriage was a restoration comedy, written in 1717 as a collaboration between John Gay, Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot.



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