Letter 0601

Gibson encloses the ‘Calculations of Credibilities of Human Testimony’, which was sent to Gibson by a good friend. He writes that a good mathematician has endorsed the work, ‘but he will not be known in this particular’. Gibson would like it to be published in the Philosophical Transactions. He worries that a recent article in the Transactions propounds ‘a dangerous hypothisis that gives soe much advantage to Deists and Atheists.’ Edmund Gibson (bap. 1669, d. 1748) was a clergyman. He served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London (Stephen Taylor, Gibson, Edmund (bap. 1669, d. 1748), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10615, accessed 21 June 2013]).