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  1. Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College by John Venn, Ernest Stewart Roberts, 2010-01-12
  2. Tracts on the Teaching of the Bible (Volume 5); Respecting the Way of Obtaining Eternal Life by John Venn, 2010-07-24
  3. On some of the characteristics of belief: scientific and religious by John Venn, 2010-08-05
  4. St. Paul's Three Chapters on Holiness; Or an Attempt to Ascertain the Exact Meaning of the 6th, 7th, and 8th Chapters of St. Paul's Epistle to by John Venn, 2010-07-24
  5. Admissions to Gonville and Caius College in the University of Cambridge March 1558-9 to Jan. 1678-9 by John Venn, 2010-01-02
  6. The Annals of Gonville and Caius College by John Caius, John Venn, 2010-08-29
  7. The Welsh Revival: Its Origin And Development by Thomas Phillips, 2010-09-10
  8. The Principles of Inductive Logic (AMS Chelsea Publishing) by John Venn, 1973-01-01
  9. VENN, JOHN(18341923): An entry from Gale's <i>Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i> by P. Heath, 2006
  10. John Venn and the Friends of the Hereford Poor by Jean O'Donnell, 2006-04
  11. John Venn's opposition to probability as degree of belief [An article from: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science] by B.E. Wall, 2006-12-01
  12. John Venn's Evolutionary Logic of Chance Preprint 91 by Berna Kilic Eden, 1998-01-01
  13. Reflections in this season of danger. A sermon preached in the parish church of Clapham, in the county of Surrey, on Sunday, April 15, 1798. ... By John Venn, ... by John Venn, 2010-05-29
  14. Earnest persuasions to receive the Lord Jesus Christ, and become subject to him. Extracted from a late treatise of the Rev. John Rawlet, B.D. By H. Venn, ... by John Rawlet, 2010-06-24

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venn, john, 18341923.Logic of chance an essay on the foundations and provinceof the Principles of empirical or inductive logic / by john venn.
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    by William Dunham In the mid-nineteenth century, John Venn (1834-1923), a Fellow of Cambridge University, devised a scheme for visualizing logical relationships. Venn was a cleric in the Anglican Church, an authority on what was then called "moral science," and the compiler of a massive index of all Cambridge alumni. He was not terribly outstanding in mathematics. But, for better or worse, a single contribution has made him immortal. That contribution is the Venn diagram. It is as much a fixture of' today's textbooks as the title page or table of contents. A Venn diagram is simply a field within which circular areas represent groups of items sharing common properties. For instance, within the universe of all animals (the large rectangle in Figure V. 1), region C represents the camels, region B the birds, and region A the albatrosses. A glance at the diagram reveals that
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    If the anglo-catholic movement takes its name from Oxford, the evangelical revival ought to be named for Cambridge, where almost all its leaders were educated - including the Venns. Instead, a geographical quirk has bequeathed us 'the Clapham sect.' The Venns are an incredible family. The elder Henry Venn (1725-1797) was the son of a high church parson, and became an evangelical only after his marriage in 1750. He was a curate at Clapham from 1754, then vicar of Huddersfield from 1769 till 1771, when he moved to Yelling in Huntingdon, close enough to Cambridge to inspire such young men as Charles Simeon. His influential writing and preaching show that he was no gloomy Calvinist. His son, John Venn (1759-1813), was rector of Clapham from 1792 until his death, and was a central figure in the Clapham sect which gathered round his famous parishioner William Wilberforce. He played an active part in the anti-slavery campaign, and was one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society in 1797.

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    Born into a yeoman family of Somerset, Venn was apprenticed to the Merchant Taylors' Company in London in 1602 and established himself as a successful merchant trading in wool and silk during the 1620s. He became a founding member of the Massachusetts Bay Company, and was appointed one of its governors in 1629. A devout Puritan Trained Bands by 1642. It was Venn's association with the militia that first brought him to prominence in London politics when he campaigned in a disputed Artillery Company election in 1631. By 1638, he was a member of the Common Council of London and active on several influential committees. Venn emerged as a leader of the Puritan militants of London during 1640-1. He helped organise the petition sent to King Charles at York in September 1640 calling for a new Parliament, and the Root and Branch Petition for religious reform in December. In cooperation with his colleague Isaac Penington , Venn led the campaign demanding the prosecution of the Earl of Strafford, and mobilised demonstrations against the power of Archbishop Laud and the supposed influence of the Catholics. When the London MP Matthew Cradock died in June 1641, Venn was elected to the Long Parliament in his place. He was accused of mobilising apprentice riots at Westminster during Parliament's debates on the

    58. Biografia De Venn, John
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