Blaise Pascal really was a gambler—at least when he was young. His highly devout parents, according to Antoine Compagnon in his short book “A Summer With Pascal,” were a bit worried when their ...
In an apostolic letter released on June 19, 2023, Pope Francis praised the “brilliant and inquisitive mind” of the influential French philosopher Blaise Pascal, born on that date 400 years ago. In ...
La longue série de fragments qu'on a pris l'habitude de nommer les Pensées ne sont que les ébauches, voire les brouillons, d'un ouvrage interrompu par la mort. Pascal y consacre les dernières années ...
Ismar David immediately felt Blaise Pascal’s compassion and purity of thought, reaching out from the seventeenth century to our time. “Reading Pascal, one is filled with the conviction that this man ...
On Aug. 19, 1662, French philosopher, mathematician and apologist Blaise Pascal died at just 39 years old. Pascal, despite his shortened life, is renowned for pioneering work in geometry, physics and ...
On the 400th anniversary of the birth of Blaise Pascal, the Vatican Library displayed first editions of some of his most famous works. Pope Francis published an apostolic letter earlier this week ...
Au bout d’une allée bordée de pâturages, où paissent paisiblement quelques vaches Aubrac, apparaît le château de Croptes, à Lezoux, près de Clermont-Ferrand, et sa vue imprenable sur le Puy de Dôme.
(The Conversation) — Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and a Catholic theologian, born 400 years ago, left a deep and lasting influence on the world that can be felt today. In fact, Pascal’s influence in ...
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