Pascal — Erosophia Encyclopedia

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Pascal — Mathematician, physicist and author of the Pensées, 1623–1662

Son of a president of a cour des aides, raised in Paris by his father who was his only teacher, he built a calculating machine, demonstrated the weight of the air, founded with Fermat the calculus of chances and withdrew into piety after 1654. The Provinciales appeared in his lifetime, the Pensées eight years after his death. He died at thirty-nine. (Editorial synthesis)

Pascal was born on 19 June 1623. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Pascal was born in Clermont. (source: Larousse)

Pascal died on 19 August 1662. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Pascal died in Paris. (source: Larousse)

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