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Choose another writer in this calendar blaise pascal (16231662) Mathematician, physicist, and theologian, inventor of first digital calculator, who is often thought as the norm of classic French prose. blaise pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne (now Clermont-Ferrand).
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Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
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Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.Thoughts. Chap. ii. 10. blaise pascal. blaise pascal. 1623
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Pascal
Biography of the genius mathematician provides information about his life and work, quotations, pictures, and links. blaise pascal was the third of Etienne pascal's children and his only son. blaise's mother died when he was only three
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Extractions: Blaise Pascal was the third of Etienne Pascal 's children and his only son. Blaise's mother died when he was only three years old. In 1632 the Pascal family, Etienne and his four children, left Clermont and settled in Paris. Blaise Pascal's father had unorthodox educational views and decided to teach his son himself. Etienne Pascal decided that Blaise was not to study mathematics before the age of 15 and all mathematics texts were removed from their house. Blaise however, his curiosity raised by this, started to work on geometry himself at the age of 12. He discovered that the sum of the angles of a triangle are two right angles and, when his father found out, he relented and allowed Blaise a copy of Euclid At the age of 14 Blaise Pascal started to accompany his father to Mersenne 's meetings.
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Extractions: "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him, the universe knows nothing of this. Pensees Pascal was a child prodigy, who was educated by his father. He was a mathematician of the first order. At 16 he wrote the Essai pour les coniques which was published in 1640. In 1642 he invented a calculating machine to help his father, who served as Royal Tax Commissioner at Rouen. Pascal is often credited with the discovery of the mathematical theory of probability, and he also made serious contributions to number theory and geometry. In 1646 Pascal learned of Toricelli's experiments with the barometer and the theory of air preassure. These experiments involved placing a tube of mercury upside down in a bowl of mercury. Pascal repeated Toricelli's experiments and did more work which led to the publication of Experiences nouvelles touchant le vide in 1647. Aristotle had argued against the atomists that nature abhors a vacume. This was a view still strongly held in the seventeenth century, even by such anti-Aristotelians as Descartes and Hobbes. In the
Pascal, Blaise
Catalog of the Scientific Community pascal, blaise. Sources L. Brunschvig,P. Boutroux, eds., Oeuvres de blaise pascal, 1, (Paris, 1923).
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Extractions: Pascal, Blaise Note: the creators of the Galileo Project and this catalogue cannot answer email on genealogical questions. 1. Dates Born: Clermont-Ferrand, 19 June 1623 Died: Paris, 19 August 1662 Dateinfo: Dates Certain Lifespan: 2. Father Occupation: Government Official Pascal's ancestors were rich merchants that attained the highest ranks of the burgess class. His father, Etienne, was a royal tax officer and a member of the petit noblesse. Although there is no explicit word about the financial status of the father, that ancestry of rich merchants, together with all the circumstances of Pascal's life, seem clearly to state that he grew up in wealthy circumstances. 3. Nationality Birth: French Career: French Death: French 4. Education Schooling: No University Pascal appears to have had no formal education. As a young child his father took charge of his education. He continued his education in the salons and scientific gatherings he attended with his father as a young man in Paris. 5. Religion
Provincial Letters By Blaise Pascal
1660 PROVINCIAL LETTERS. by blaise pascal translated by Thomas M'Crie. Search theProvinvial Letters. TABLE OF CONTENTS. LETTER I. LETTER II. LETTER III. LETTER IV.
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Pensees - Title
Contents Pensees. PENSÉES. by blaise pascal. 1660. translated by WF Trotter.
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Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biograph
pascal, blaise (16231662), French mathematician, philosopher, andreligious figure. He studied the region above the mercury in a
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Extractions: French mathematician, philosopher, and religious figure. He studied the region above the mercury in a barometer maintaining that it was a vacuum. In his investigations of the barometer he found that the height to which the mercury rose was the same regardless of shape. Based on his double vacuum experiment, he formulated Pascal's principle Pascal also designed and built mechanical adding machines, and incorporated a company in 1649 to produce and market them. Unfortunately, the machines were rather highly priced and had reliability problems. Only seven of Pascal's devices survive today. Pascal suffered from serious health problems, and spent most of his final years writing on religious philosophy.
Pascal, Blaise. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. pascal, blaise. (bl z päskäl´)(KEY) , 162362, French scientist and religious philosopher.
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Blaise Pascal - Introduction
Biographie et bibliographie.Category World Français Philosophie Philosophes pascal, blaise pascal est un génie.
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Extractions: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) " Tout cela sans projet , sans plan préconçu, sans vouloir rien publier ni laisser de traces, si ce n'est en se dissimulant derrière sept identités distinctes, chacune dotée de sa propre personnalité. Seulement pour relever les défis de l'intelligence que l'amitié et le hasard mettent sur sa route. Dans l'obsession de la pauvreté, du retrait, de l'anonymat, du salut. Un génie particulièrement français dans toutes ses dimensions : l'intellectuel, le marginal, le journaliste, le polémiste, le rebelle, l'homme d'action, soucieux d'universel, certes, mais aussi le délateur, l'arrogant, le jaloux, le menteur..." Jacques Attali Droit de reproduction interdit à lire : Jacques Attali : Blaise Pascal ou le génie français ( Fayard, 2000) Chateaubriand "Pascal brille dans la science, dans la polémique, dans la théologie, dans la philosophie. C'est un génie universel. Il est dépassé comme savant . Il est indépassable comme écrivain. Il a porté à l'incandescence la géométrie enflammée par l'amour de Dieu : sa place est immense dans cette littérature que son génie méprisait. Corneille est le créateur de notre vers classique. Pascal est le créateur de notre prose classique. A eux deux avec le Cid, avec les Provinciales et les Pensées, ils président à la naissance de ce que Thucydide appelait … , un trésor pour toujours : la langue française classique."
Pascal's Wager
Argument due to blaise pascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. From Category Society Philosophy Philosophy of Religion pascal's Wager is the name given to an argument due to blaise pascal for believing,or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. pascal, blaise. 1910.
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Extractions: OCT "Pascal's Wager" is the name given to an argument due to Blaise Pascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. The name is somewhat misleading, for in a single paragraph of his , Pascal apparently presents at least three We will begin with some brief stage-setting: some historical background, some of the basics of decision theory, and some of the exegetical problems that the Infinite-nothing a priori demonstrations that God exists. Pascal is apparently unimpressed by such attempted justifications of theism: "Endeavour ... to convince yourself, not by increase of proofs of God..." Indeed, he concedes that "we do not know if He is ...". Pascal's project, then, is radically different: he seeks to provide prudential reasons for believing in God. To put it crudely, we should wager that God exists because it is the
Blaise Pascal At Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
blaise pascal at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base. AITLC Guide for blaisepascal. From the Access Indiana Teaching and Learning Center. site Includes
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Extractions: by Peter Kreeft Blaise Pascal Texts: Blaise Pascal Texts: Pensees Used Books: Blaise Pascal ... Pascal Biography Site maintained by Ireland's Trinity College features a biography of the famous French mathematician. From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. Excerpt: Among the contemporaries of Descartes none displayed greater natural genius than Pascal, but his mathematical reputation rests more on what he might have done than on what he actually effected, as during a considerable part of his life he deemed it his duty to devote his whole time to religious exercises. Blaise Pascal Elements , a book which Pascal read with avidity and soon mastered.
Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662
Brief biography with excerpts from pascal's writings.
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Extractions: Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662 We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put some thing before us to prevent us seeing it. The French mathematician, theologian, physicist and man-of-letters, Blaise Pascal, was born June 19 at Clermont-Ferrand, the son of the local president of the court of exchequer. Pascal's mother died in 1630 and the family moved to Paris, where his father, a prominent mathematician, personally undertook his children's education. Unlike the famous education of John Stuart Mill, the young Pascal was not allowed to begin a subject until his father thought he could easily master it. Consequently it was discovered that the eleven year old boy had worked out for himself in secret the first twenty-three propositions of Euclid, calling straight lines "bars" and circles "rounds." At sixteen he published a paper on solid geometry which Descartes refused refused to believe was the handiwork of a youth. Father an son collaborated in experiments to confirm Torricelli's theory, unpalatable the the Schoolmen, that nature does, after all, not abhor a vacuum. These experiments, carried out by Pascal's brother-in-law, Florin Périer, consisted in carrying up the Puy de Dôme two glass tubes containing mercury, inverted in a bath of mercury and noting the fall of the mercury columns with increased altitude. Again, Descartes disbelieved the principle, which Pascal fully described in three papers on the void published in 1647, when he also patented a calculating machine, later simplified by Leibniz, which he had built to assist his father in his accounts. Pascal was also led to invent the barometer, the hydraulic press and the syringe.
Pascal, Blaise
pascal, blaise. The French thinker, mathematician, and scientist blaisepascal, b. June 19, 1623, d. Aug. 19, 1662, has been credited
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Extractions: Pascal, Blaise At the end of 1654, after several months of intense depression, Pascal had a religious experience that altered his life. He entered the Jansenist monastery at Port-Royal, although he did not take orders. He never published in his own name again. The Jansenists encouraged him in his mathematical studies, which he resumed. To assist them in their struggles against the Jesuits, he wrote, under a pseudonym, a defense of the famous Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, in the form of 18 epistles. Known as Lettres provinciales, they were likely responsible for the subsequent reputation of the Jesuits as hypocritical and casuistic. In 1658 he broke with the Jansenists and left the monastery. He continued mathematical study and worked on calculus and on probability theory with Pierre de Fermat. Pascal died at the age of 39 in intense pain after a malignant growth in his stomach spread to the brain. His most famous work is the Pensees (Thoughts), a set of deeply personal meditations in somewhat fragmented form on human suffering and faith in God. "Pascal's wager" expresses the conviction that belief in God is rational: if God does not exist, one stands to lose nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing. Author: Catherine Wilson Bibliography: Bishop, Morris, Pascal, the Life of Genius (1936; repr. 1968); Broome, Jack Howard, Pascal (1966); Conway, Richard, A Primer on Pascal (1976); Davidson, Hugh M., Blaise Pascal (1983); Fletcher, Frank Thomas Herbert, Pascal and the Mystical Tradition (1954); Hazelton, Roger, Blaise Pascal: The Genius of His Thought (1975); Mesnard, Jean, Pascal, trans. by Claude and Marcia Abraham (1969); Nelson, Robert J., Pascal (1982); Stewart, Hugh F., Blaise Pascal (1942; repr. 1977) and The Secret of Pascal (1941).
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Gedachten over de godsdienst.Category World Nederlands Christendom Theologie Theologenblaise pascal (1623 1662) Frans wiskundig genie, natuurkundige, polemist,wijsgeer en apologeet. pascal is een christelijk denker
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Extractions: Pascal is een christelijk denker en schrijver wiens grote aantrekkingskracht vooral ligt in zijn religieuze persoonlijkheid. Daarbij komt dat hij de gave bezat zijn religieus beleven zo direct uit te leggen dat ook wij nu nog bij het lezen worden ontroerd. Pascal is door deze existentiële houding actueel in onze tijd. De vader van Blaise Pascal, hoofd van het gerechtshof in Clermont-Ferrand, gaf zijn post op om zijn kinderen een betere opvoeding te gunnen en vestigde zich in Parijs. Hij was zelf een groot wiskundige en zag tot zijn genoegen dat de jonge Blaise zich in snel tempo op alle gebieden van de exacte wetenschap ontwikkelde; hij verwachtte niet ten onrechte dat zijn zoon hem op het terrein van de wiskunde, maar ook op dat van de filosofie, verre zou overtreffen. Een ongeluk dat de vader overkwam, leidde tot het contact van het hele gezin met het jansenisme (al ging Blaise Pascal daartoe pas later over): twee edellieden lieten hem en al de andere familieleden de geschriften van de godgeleerde Jansenius, Arnauld en de belangrijke theoretici van deze beweging lezen.
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