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Philosophia sobria, vol. I (Giessen, 1615), pp. 375–82; developed by his
student Matthias Butschky in a thesis, which belonged in a series of
anti-Calvinist controversy: Disputatio duodecima de choreis et comoediis
(Wittenberg: I. Gormannus, 1620).
5 Games and Law
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2. For updated introductions see: R.C. van Caenegem, An Historical Introduction
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