Although Blaise Pascal can be seen in retrospect as an important scientist in his time, he was a controversial figure to his contemporaries. There is no doubt that Pascal was of a superior intelligence, but he was a modest man, embarrassed by his own...

The French scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a precocious and influential mathematical writer, a master of the French language, and a great religious philosopher. Blaise Pascal was born at Clermont-Ferrand on June 19, 1623. He was...

In his short life, Blaise Pascal was able to make major contributions to many of the fields of science that were rapidly developing in the seventeenth century, including projective geometry probability theory, and hydraulics. He also developed one of...

Mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, religious thinker, and writer, Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on June 19, 1623, the second of three children of Étienne Pascal, a government official and...

French Philosopher and Scientist 1623–1662 Blaise Pascal, who was born in 1623 in central France and died in Paris in 1662, made significant contributions to physics, mathematics, and philosophy during his short life. At the time of...

1623-1662 French Mathematician and Philosopher Amathematical prodigy who first made a name for himself at age 16, Blaise Pascal had a meteoric career that concluded before he was 40. His efforts were further curtailed by his growing interest in a...

French Mathematician and Philosopher 1623–1662 Blaise Pascal's work on binomial...

Blaise Pascal (pronounced [blɛːz paskal]), (June 19 1623 – August 19 1662) 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...

On a September morning in 1647 (Louis XIV, aged nine, was king), a carriage drew up before the Paris house of the Pascal family, and M Rene Descartes got out. He looked like a crafty peasant. In fact, at 51, he was the most...

Hugo only refers to Pascal by name in the opening chapters of Les Miserables, in the course of his description of Monseigneur Myriel, the Bishop of Digne.(1) Here, Hugo ambivalently calls the seventeenth-century Jansenist both a genius and a madman, a thinker devoted...

Today is Monday, May 28, the 148th day of 2007. There are 217 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance.Today's Highlight in History:On May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets _ Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne _ were born to Elzire...

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Below, Mesnard examines Pascal's life and career as a scientist, thinker, theologian, and artist.

In the following excerpt, Kolakowski examines several key aspects of Pascal's theology, including his concepts of heart, free will, truth, faith, knowledge, and reason.

In the following essay, which originally appeared in Pascal and Theology in 1969, Miel emphasizes the historical nature of Pascal's vision of humanity as well as his theological basis for nearly all his thought.

A comparative essay considering the viewpoints of three philosophers Montaigne, Descartes, and Pascal.

Blaise Pascal's & Pensees