Blaise Pascal Death Anniversary Home Events Events on 19 August Blaise PascalDeath Anniversary Blaise Pascal died on 19 August, 1662 French mathematician, physicist and inventor famous for being one of the inventors of the mechanical calculator....
Blaise Pascal: Directed by Roberto Rossellini. With Pierre Arditi, Rita Forzano, Giuseppe Addobbati, Christian De Sica. Blaise Pascal struggles to understand the natural world around him, in addition to an inner quest for religious faith.
He also wrote on religion and philosophy, dedicating his later years to defense of a controversial Christian movement known as Jansenism. Pascal suffered from poor health for most of his life and died at the early age of 39 on August 19, 1662. Blaise Pascal 1623-1662...
Blaise Pascal was an influential mathematical writer, a master of the French language, and a great religious philosopher (a person who seeks wisdom). He began making contributions to mathematics at a very young age. The computer programming language "Pascal" is named after him. ...
Born in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France, Blaise Pascal lost his mother at the age of three. His mathematician father, Étienne Pascal (1588 - 1651), brought him up. Blaise Pascal was the brother of Jacqueline Pascal (1625 - 1661). ...
Blaise Pascal lost his mother, Antoinette Begon, at the age of three. His father, Étienne Pascal (1588–1651), was a local judge and member of the "noblesse de robe", who also had an interest in science and mathematics. Pascal had two sisters, the younger Jacqueline and the elder Gil...
Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Pascal’s father had a strong interest in science and mathematics and this may have had a great deal of influence on him. Even at a very young age, Pascal was showing quite a bit of talent for math and the science...
The horses were killed, but Pascal was unhurt. Convinced that it was God who had saved him, he reassessed how he was living. From then on, ‘From the age of thirty-one to the day of his death, at the age of thirty-nine, he had but one desire: he lived that he might turn the...
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter. —Blaise Pascal 1 The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally...
Constitutionally delicate, Pascal had injured his health by his incessant study; from the age of 17 or 18 he suffered from insomnia and acute dyspepsia, and at the time of his death he was physically worn out. He neither married nor had children, and at the end of his life he became an...