📅 23 December 1763
Richard Price presented Thomas Bayes' posthumous essay on inverse probability to the Society.
📅 23 December 1763
The essay considered how observed outcomes could update beliefs about an unknown probability.
📅 23 December 1763
The event shows that mathematical authorship and survival often depend on editors, correspondents and institutions.
📅 23 December 1763
Modern statistics uses related ideas in science, medicine and computing, although current Bayesian theory extends far beyond the 1763 text.
