Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623–August 19,1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal 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 and the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by expanding the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote powerfully in defence of the scientific method.

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• {{note|sickness}} Sainte-Beuve, Port-Royal, I, 89.
• {{note|M93}} Muir, 93.
• {{note|Sappho}} Pascal, Pensées, Havet ed. Introd., p. civ.
• {{note|marriage}} Mesnard, Pascal, 57.
• {{note|EP52}} Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 52.
• {{note|OC618}} Oeuvres complètes, 618.
• {{note|VoltaireLetters}} Voltaire, Age of Louis XIV 424, 358.
• {{note|BossuetLetters}} Voltaire, Age of Louis XIV 359.
• {{note|ThornMiracle}} Sainte-Beuve, Port-Royal, III, 173f.; Beard, Charles, Port-Royal, I 84.
• {{note|peity}} Pascal, Pensées, Introduction, p. xxviii; Mesnard, Pascal, 137-138.
• {{note|finest}} Sainte-Beuve, Seventeenth Century, 174.
• {{note|eloquent}} Durant, The Age of Louis XIV, 66.
• {{note|M103}} Muir, 103.
• {{note|M104}} Muir, 104.