As I've suggested before, his more conservative contemporaries were appalled by the proliferation of religious sects in mid-seventeenth-century England.

这如我以前所说，他的保守的同辈人,因17世纪中期英格兰迅速增多,的宗教派系而惊恐。

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Bisection methods were known to the ancient Greeks, and it is believed by many, even to the Babylonians.

二分法由古希腊人所发明,我以前也说过，一直到17世纪二分法都被。

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In the first place, by and until the twentieth century, I guess, human beings tended to stay put.

首先,我觉得,20世纪以前,人们都喜欢定居

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Ian Hacking, who wrote a history of probability theory, searched through world literature for any reference to a probability and could find none anywhere before 1600.

伊恩·哈金为概率论追根溯源,他查遍世界所有关于概率的文献,发现无法追溯到十七世纪以前

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London, already by the late sixteenth century, one-sixth of all the people, I think this is E.A. Wrigley who pointed this out a long time ago--one-sixth of all the people in England went to London frequently, because London was absolutely gigantic as a city.

伦敦,早在十六世纪后期,六分之一的人口,我想是E.A莱格力很久以前给出的这个数据,他指出,当时有六分之一的英国人,会经常去伦敦,因为伦敦当时是个巨型城市

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