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  1. Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal, 2010-03-07
  2. Pensées and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Blaise Pascal, 2008-07-15
  3. Pensées by Blaise Pascal, 2010-03-09
  4. A Piece of the Mountain:The Story of Blaise Pascal by Joyce Mcpherson, 1997-12-01
  5. Pensees (Thoughts) by Blaise Pascal, 2005-01-31
  6. Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees by Peter Kreeft, Blaise Pascal, 1993-10
  7. Pensees by Blaise Pascal, Roger Ariew, 2005-03-31
  8. Pascal's Pensees by Blaise Pascal, 2010-07-12
  9. The Mind on Fire (Victor Classics) by Blaise Pascal, 2006-02-01
  10. The Cambridge Companion to Pascal (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
  11. Making Sense of It All Pascal and the Meaning of Life by Thomas V. Morris, 1992-09
  12. Human Happiness (Penguin Great Ideas) by Blaise Pascal, 2009-10-27
  13. Pensamientos/ Thoughts (Spanish Edition) by Blaise Pascal, 2007-06-30
  14. The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal. A new translation with historical introduction and notes by Rev. Thomas M'Crie, preceded by a life of Pascal, a critical essay, and a biographical notice .. by Blaise Pascal, Thomas M'Crie, et all 2010-07-30

1. Blaise Pascal - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Born in ClermontFerrand, in the Auvergne region of France, Blaise Pascal lost his mother, Antoinette Begon, at the age of three. His father, Étienne Pascal
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Blaise Pascal Name Blaise Pascal Birth June 19 Death August 19 School/tradition Continental Philosophy , precursor to existentialism Main interests Theology Mathematics Notable ideas Pascal's Wager Influenced by Michel de Montaigne Blaise Pascal pronounced [blɛːz paskal] June 19 August 19 ) was a French mathematician physicist , and religious philosopher . He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators , the study of fluids , and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli . Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method Pascal was a mathematician of the first order. He helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory , strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science Following a mystical experience in late 1654, he abandoned his scientific work and devoted himself to philosophy and

2. Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was born at Clermont on June 19, 1623, and died at Paris on Aug. 19, 1662. His father, a local judge at Clermont, and himself of some
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Related Articles Related Resources Gordon Moore Related Topics Principal papers Les Pensées Letter to the Chancelor Hardware the pascaline Software See Also descartes Keywords pensees, pascaline Achievement Invented one of the first mechanical calculators: the pascaline Biography 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. His father, struck by this display of ability, gave him a copy of Euclid's Elements, a book which Pascal read with avidity and soon mastered. Before Pascal turned 13 he had proven the 32-nd proposition of Euclid and discovered an error in Rene Descartes geometry. At 16, Pascal began preparing to write a study of the entire field of mathematics, but his father required his time to hand total long columns of numbers. Pascal began designing a calculating machine, which he finally perfected when he was thirty, the pascaline , a beautiful handcrafted box about fourteen by five by three inches. The first accurate mechanical calculator was born. The Pacaline was not a commercial success in Pascal's lifetime; it could do the work of six accountants and people feared it would create unemployment.

3. Blaise Pascal --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Britannica online encyclopedia article on Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher, and master of prose.
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4. Blaise Pascal - Wikipédia
Translate this page Blaise Pascal (19 juin 1623, Clermont (Auvergne) - 19 août 1662, Paris) est un mathématicien et physicien, philosophe, moraliste et théologien français.
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Aller   : Navigation Rechercher Pour les articles homonymes , voir Pascal Blaise Pascal 19 juin Clermont Auvergne 19 ao»t ... Paris ) est un math©maticien et physicien philosophe moraliste et th©ologien fran§ais Enfant pr©coce, il est ©duqu© par son p¨re. Les tout premiers travaux de Pascal concernent les sciences naturelles Pascaline fluides . Il a clarifi© les concepts de pression et de vide , en ©tendant le travail de Torricelli . Pascal a ©crit des textes importants sur la m©thode scientifique g©om©trie projective , avec Pierre de Fermat   propos de la th©orie des probabilit©s , qui influencera fortement les th©ories ©conomiques modernes et les sciences sociales Apr¨s une exp©rience mystique   la fin de , il d©laisse les math©matiques et la physique et se consacre   la r©flexion philosophique et religieuse. Il ©crit pendant cette p©riode les Provinciales et les Pens©es , ces derni¨res n’©tant publi©es qu’apr¨s sa mort qui survient deux mois apr¨s son 39 e anniversaire, alors qu’il a ©t© malade toute sa vie (sujet   des

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Blaise Pascal was born in ClermontFerrand, Auvergne (now Clermont-Ferrand), a town on the slope of Puy de Dôme, an extinct volcanic peak.
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Mathematician, physicist, and theologian, inventor of the first digital calculator, who is often thought of as the ideal of classic French prose. Pascal lived in the time when Copernicus' discovery - that the earth moves round the sun - had made fallen human beings insignificant factors in the new order of the world. Facing the immensity of the universe, Pascal felt horror - "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me." For him the world seemed empty of ultimate meaning or significance without Christianity, which he defended against the assaults of freethinkers. While Montaigne lived at ease with skepticism, Pascal was tormented by religious doubt, and took the question Why are we here? "Pascal's disillusioned analysis of human bondage is sometimes interpreted to mean that Pascal was really and finally an unbeliever, who, in his despair, was incapable of enduring reality and enjoying the heroic satisfaction of the free man's worship of nothing. His despair, his disillusion, are, however, no illustration of personal weakness; they are perfectly objective, because they are essential moments in the progress of the intellectual soul; and for the type of Pascal they are the analogue of the drought, the dark night, which is an essential stage in the progress of the Christian mystic."

6. Blaise Pascal - Wikiquote
Blaise Pascal. From Wikiquote Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) French mathematician, physicist, and theologian. edit Sourced
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  • People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
    • The Art of Persuasion Entre nous, et l'enfer ou le ciel, il n'y a que la vie entre deux, qui est la chose du monde la plus fragile.
      • Discours sur les passions de l'amour Translation: Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world. Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
        • Literally: I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter. Translation: I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. Source: Provincial Letters: Letter XVI English Translation This quote has been also attributed to Mark Twain T.S. Eliot Cicero , and others besides L'homme n'est ni ange ni bªte, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la bªte.

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"Whoso takes this survey of himself will be terrified at the thought that is upheld in the material being, given him by nature, between these two abysses of the infinite and nothing, he will tremble at the sight of these marvels...
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in regard to the infinite, a whole in regard to nothing, a mean between nothing and the whole; infinitely moved from understanding either extreme. The end of things and their beginnings are invincibly hidden from him in impenetrable secrecy, he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing whence he was taken, and the infinite in which he is engulfed."
Biography Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 1623. His mother died when he was three-years-old, and he was educated by his father, Etienne, who had associations with the likes of Descartes, Mersenne, and Fermat. He developed what became known as Pascal's Theorem (a work on the projective geomertry of the cone) at the young age of sixteen. His other early accomplishments in mathematics included the development of probability theory and a method of infintesimal analysis. Pascal also made major contributions to physics, including a treatise on hydrostatics and experiments with his barometer to determine the cause of the mercury's suspension. With The Provincial Letters , Pascal earned fame as a rhetoritician/polemic stylist, which would thereafter greatly influenced French prose. In these letters, Pascal defended the Jansenists against attacks by the Jesuits and the Pope, although Pascal himself was not a Jansenist. Pascal's greatest mark upon philosophy comes from his

8. Blaise Pascal - LoveToKnow 1911
BLAISE PASCAL (16231662), French religious philosopher and mathematician, was born at Clermont Ferrand on the 19th of June 1623.
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BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662), French religious philosopher and mathematician, was born at Clermont Ferrand on the 19th of June 1623. His father was Etienne Pascal, president of the Court of Aids at Clermont; his mother's name was Antoinette Begon. The Pascal family were Auvergnats by extraction as well as residence, had for many generations held posts in the civil service , and were ennobled by Louis XI . in 1478, but did not assume the de. The earliest anecdote of Pascal is one of his being bewitched and freed from the spell. by the witch with strange ceremonies. His mother died when he was about four years old, and left him with two sistersGilberte, who afterwards married M. Perier, and Jacqueline. Both sisters are of importance in their brother's history, and both are said to have been beautiful and accomplished. When Pascal was about seven years old his father gave up his official post at Clermont, and betook himself to Paris . It does not appear that Blaise, who went to no school, but was taught by his father, was at all forced, but rather the contrary. Nevertheless he has a distinguished place in the story of precocious children, and in the much more limited chapter of children whose precocity has been followed by great performance at maturity, though he never became what is called a learned man, perhaps did not know Greek, and was pretty certainly indebted for most of his miscellaneous reading to Montaigne.

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Should we therefore wait until we are the oldest person on earth or the most educated person on earth to make up our mind whether we should be a creationist or an evolutionist? The obvious answer is no. God has created the world and our minds so that we use thought systems for interpreting the world around us. Each person, regardless of how old or how educated, stands equal before God. Each person is responsible for the world view he holds. Each person is responsible for interpreting the data. No one else has a right to do that for him. Each person adopts a world view based on faith. If he accepts creation, he does so by faith. If he rejects creation, he does so by faith. It is not in this manner that he chose to appear in the gentleness of his coming; because since so many men had become unworthy of his clemency, he wished them to suffer the privation of the good that they did not want. It would not have been right therefore for him to appear in a way that was plainly divine and absolutely bound to convince all mankind; but it was not right either that he should come in a manner so hidden that he could not be recognized by those who sought him sincerely. He chose to make himself perfectly knowable to them; and thus, wishing to appear openly to those who seek him with all their heart, he tempered the knowledge of himself, with the result that he has given signs of himself which are visible to those who seek him, and not to those who do not seek him (Pensees, #309).

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Blaise Pascal (16231662), a French thinker. His early scientific investigations led to invaluable contributions in mathematics and physics.
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), a French thinker. His early scientific investigations led to invaluable contributions in mathematics and physics. He is also remembered for his introspective religious and philosophical writings, most notably his Pensees, which focused on the power of divine faith.

13. Fermat's Last Theorem: Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was born in Clement, France in 1623. From an early age, he was identified as a prodigy. When he was eleven, he wrote an essay on the sounds of
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Blaise Pascal was born in Clement, France in 1623. From an early age, he was identified as a prodigy. When he was eleven, he wrote an essay on the sounds of vibrating bodies. His father did not take well to this and forbid him from studying mathematics. At 12, he came up with his own proof that the sum of the angles of a triangle add up to sum of two right angles. His was father was impressed with this and decided that it was ok if Pascal read Euclid's Elements. At the age of 16, Pascal wrote an essay on conic sections which included a result known today as Pascal's Theorem . At age 18, he created a mechanical calculator capable of addition and subtraction (he was the second person to do this; Wilhelm Schickard had built the first one in 1624).

14. Blaise Pascal - Britannica Concise
Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher.
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French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. The son of a mathematician, he was a child prodigy, earning the envy of with an essay he wrote on conic sections in 1640. In the 1640s and '50s he made contributions to physics (formulating Pascal's law ) and mathematics (working on the arithmetic triangle, inventing a calculating machine, and contributing to the advance of differential calculus). For work done in his early years, he is regarded as the founder of the modern theory of probability. At the same time, he became increasingly involved with Jansenism Les Provinciales were a series of letters defending Jansenism and attacking the Jesuit s. His great work of Christian apologetics, was never finished, but he put together most of his notes and fragments between 1657 and 1658; these were published posthumously as (1670). He returned to scientific work, contributing to the

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      Died: Paris, 19 August 1662
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  • 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.
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      Birth: French
      Career: French
      Death: French
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    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.
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      Affiliation: Catholic
    In 1646 he had his first conversion experience and was attracted to the teaching of Saint-Cyran whose views were close to Jansenism. Pascal kept his ties with the Port Royalists for the rest of his life. He even came to the aid of the Jansenists against the Jesuits.
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    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,
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    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. Mersenne belonged to the religious order of the Minims, and his cell in Paris was a frequent meeting place for Gassendi, Roberval, Carcavi, Auzout, Mydorge, Mylon, Desargues and others. Soon, certainly by the time he was 15, Blaise came to admire the work of Desargues. At the age of sixteen, Pascal presented a single piece of paper to one of Mersenne 's meetings in June 1639. It contained a number of projective geometry theorems, including Pascal's mystic hexagon.

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      Pascal stammte aus einer alten, in zweiter Generation amtsadeligen Familie der Auvergne . Sein Vater hatte in Paris Jura studiert und etwas sp¤ter das Amt des zweiten Vorsitzenden Richters am Obersten Steuergerichtshof der Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand gekauft. Die Mutter, Antoinette Begon, kam aus einer wohlhabenden Kaufmannsfamilie, die ebenfalls in den Amtsadel ( Noblesse de robe ) strebte. Pascal hatte zwei Schwestern, die drei Jahre ¤ltere Gilberte (die sp¤ter seine Nachlassverwalterin und erste Biographin wurde) sowie die zwei Jahre j¼ngere Jacqueline Pascal war von Kindheit an sehr kr¤nklich. Er wurde deshalb von seinem hochgebildeten und naturkundlich interessierten Vater selbst sowie von Hauslehrern unterrichtet. Bereits mit zw¶lf erwies er sein hervorragendes mathematisches Talent und fand dann ¼ber seinen Vater, der in Pariser Gelehrten- und Literatenzirkeln verkehrte, Anschluss an den Kreis von Mathematikern und Naturforschern um den P¨re Mersenne , wo er als 16-J¤hriger mit einer Arbeit ¼ber Kegelschnitte beeindruckte.

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    Blaise Pascal was the third Source: www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, theologian, and man of letters. He was born at Clermont-Ferrand on 19 June, 1623, and his mother died only three years later, leaving his father ‰tienne, an excellent mathematician himself, to raise and educate the family. They moved to Paris in 1631, and it became clear that Pascal was a mathematical prodigy, publishing at 16 an essay on conic sections that Ren© Descartes could not believe was the work of one so young. In 1646, Pascal converted to an austere and rigorous form of Roman Catholicism called Jansenism, accepting a doctrine that espoused absolute predestination, denied free will, and stated that only the grace of God rather than good works could bring salvation. 1651 saw the death of Pascal's father, and his sister, Jacqueline, consequently entered the Jansenist community at Port Royal. Pascal's subsequent correspondence with Pierre de Fermat laid the foundations for the mathematical theory of probability. Source: byzant.com

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    All the troubles of man stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room Blaise Pascal Contributed by: Jack . More quotes added by Bootsy from all sources Add Comment Print Send Permalink I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short. Blaise Pascal Contributed by: Dan . More quotes added by Dan from all sources Add Comment Print Send Permalink More quotes about: writing For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal Source: Unknown Contributed by: James Moog . More quotes added by James from all sources Add Comment Print Send Permalink More quotes about: life existence infinity nothingness Thou wouldst not have sought me hadst thou not already found me.

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