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Blaise Pascal
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was born in Clermont France on June 19, 1623, and died in Paris on
Aug. 19, 1662. His father, a local judge at Clermont, and also a man with a
scientific reputation, moved the family to Paris in 1631, partly to presue his
own scientific studies, partly to carry on the education of his only son, wh ....
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repeated Torricelli's experiments, by which the pressure of the atmosphere could
be estimated as a weight, and he confirmed his theory of the cause of
barometrical variations by obtaining at the same instant readings at different
altitudes on the hill of Puy-de-Dôme. A strange thing about Pascal was that in
1650 he stoped all he reasearched and his favorite studies to being the study of
religion, or as he sais in his Pensees, "contemplate the greatness and the
misery of man." Also about this.... |
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