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	Blaise Pascal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623–August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher.
		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's last major achievement, returning to his mechanical genius, was inaugurating perhaps the first bus line, moving passengers within Paris in a carriage with many seats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blaise_Pascal (3478 words)

	Blaise Pascal - MSN Encarta
		Pascal proved by experimentation in 1648 that the level of the mercury column in a barometer is determined by an increase or decrease in the surrounding atmospheric pressure rather than by a vacuum, as previously believed.
		Pascal's writings urging acceptance of the Christian life contain frequent applications of the calculations of probability; he reasoned that the value of eternal happiness is infinite and that although the probability of gaining such happiness by religion may be small it is infinitely greater than by any other course of human conduct or belief.
		Pascal was one of the most eminent mathematicians and physicists of his day and one of the greatest mystical writers in Christian literature.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570097/Pascal_Blaise.html (691 words)

	Blaise Pascal at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
		Pascal was kept at home in order to ensure his not being overworked, and with the same object it was directed that his education should be at first confined to the study of languages, and should not include any mathematics.
		Pascal, stimulated no doubt by the injunction against reading it, gave up his play-time to this new study, and in a few weeks had discovered for himself many properties of figures, and in particular the proposition that the sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles.
		The French mathematician, theologian, physicist and man-of-letters, Blaise Pascal, was born June 19 at Clermont-Ferrand, the son of the local president of the court of exchequer.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~modern/html/modern_blaise_pascal.htm (964 words)

	Pascal's Wager - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blaise Pascal argued that it is a better "bet" to believe in God than not to do so.
		Pascal argues that it is always a better "bet" to believe in God, because the expected value to be gained from believing in God is always greater than the expected value resulting from non-belief.
		Pascal specifically aimed the argument at such persons who were not convinced by traditional arguments for the existence of God.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pascal's_wager (2761 words)

	Blaise Pascal, Scientist, Religious Writer
		Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand (45:47 N 3:05 E), France, on 19 June 1623.
		Pascal as a physicist was concerned chiefly with the pressures of liquids and gasses.
		Pascal (whose sister was a nun at Port Royal) was a zealous writer on behalf of the Jansenists.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/bio/233.html (1932 words)

	Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
		Pascal's arithmetical triangle, to any required order, is got by drawing a diagonal downwards from right to left as in the figure.
		Pascal used the triangle partly for this purpose, and partly to find the numbers of combinations of m things taken n at a time, which he stated, correctly, to be (n+1)(n+2)(n+3)...
		Pascal's own solutions were effected by the method of indivisibles, and are similar to those which a modern mathematician would give by the aid of the integral calculus.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /pub/HistMath/People/Pascal/RouseBall/RB_Pascal.html (1872 words)

	Pascal, Blaise. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		As a young man, Pascal came under the influence of Jansenism, and in 1651 his sister Jacqueline, who had also embraced Jansenist beliefs, entered the convent at Port-Royal, the center of the movement.
		As a result of the death of his father and of his own narrow escape from death, Pascal in 1654 experienced what he called a “conversion” and thereafter turned much of his attention to religion.
		Pascal’s religious writings were posthumously published as Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets (1670).
	www.bartleby.com /65/pa/Pascal-B.html (361 words)

	Blaise Pascal: An Apologist for Our Times
		Pascal was a rather sickly young man, and in the latter part of his short life he suffered from severe pain.
		Pascal is appalled that people think this way, and he wants to shake people out of their stupor and make them think about eternity.
		Pascal began his apologetics with an analysis of the human condition drawn from the experience of the new, modern man. He showed what a terrible position man is in, and he argued that man is not capable of finding all the answers through reason.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/probe/docs/pascal.html (3829 words)

	Great creation scientist: Blaise Pascal (1623—1662)
		Blaise Pascal was born one of three children on 19 June 1623, in the town of Clermont-Ferrand in rural France.
		Pascal’s experiments with the barometer proved the now familiar facts that atmospheric pressure (as shown by the height of the mercury in the barometer) decreases as altitude increases, and also changes as the weather changes.
		Pascal is famous for the statement known as Pascal’s Wager in which he applied his thinking in terms of probabilities to the question of salvation.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v20/i1/scientist.asp (1481 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Blaise Pascal
		From the fourth to the sixteenth Pascal censures the Jesuit moral code, or rather the casuistry, first, by depicting a naîf Jesuit who, through silly vanity, reveals to him the pretended secrets of the Jesuit policy, and then by direct invective against the Jesuits themselves.
		Condorcet, on the advice of Voltaire, attempted, in 1776, to connect Pascal with the Philosophie party by means of a garbled edition, which was opposed by that of the Abbe Bossuet (1779).
		Another curious argument of Pascal's is that which is known as the argument of the wager.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11511a.htm (1660 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Mathematician and inventor Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont, France on June 29, 1623.
		Pascal's invention of the mechanical calculator in 1641 was borne out of a desire to help his father in collecting taxes.
		In 1654, Pascal was spared in a near-deadly horse and carriage accident and became extremely religious.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/pascal.html (556 words)

	little blue light - Blaise Pascal
		Blaise Pascal was born June 19, 1623 to Etienne Pascal, a tax judge - important, imperious, educated and religious - and his wife, Antoine, a pious and kind woman who suffered from poor health.
		Pascal also began formal experiments to investigate the existence of a vacuum, a controversial topic that originally attracted his attention during a mercury experiment he conducted with his father several years before.
		Meanwhile, Blaise's niece was miraculously cured of an eye ailment after she kissed a thorn of Christ's crown, a blessing Pascal took as a confirmation of his efforts against the Jesuits.
	www.littlebluelight.com /lblphp/intro.php?ikey=22 (2009 words)

	Apologetics.org - Introduction to Blaise Pascal by Bill Tsamis
		Nevertheless, Etienne Pascal was a capable father who, with the help of his daughters, Gilberte and Jacqueline, would sustain the young Blaise and then impel him into a career of intellectual magnificence.
		Whether or not the story is true, that the twelve-year-old Blaise discovered complex geometrical principles on his own, it is certain that the young Pascal was a child prodigy and savant who excelled in the disciplines of mathematics and physics.
		And during this period in his life, "Pascal the mathematician and physicist" would become "Pascal the apologist and philosopher." Though he never abandoned his scientific experiments, he nevertheless consecrated his work to the glory of God and began to focus his penetrating mind on philosophical and theological pursuits.
	www.apologetics.org /articles/pascal.html (2373 words)

	Blaise Pascal
		At the age of sixteen, Pascal presented a single piece of paper to one of Mersenne's meetings in June 1639.
		Pascal had to solve much harder technical problems to work with this division of the livre into 240 than he would have had if the division had been 100.
		Wren had been working on Pascal's challenge and he in turn challenged Pascal, Fermat and Roberval to find the arc length, the length of the arch, of the cycloid.
	www.mathematik.ch /mathematiker/pascal.php (1621 words)

	History of Computing Science: Blaise Pascal
		For reason of his own, Étienne decided that Pascal was not to study mathematics prior to the age of fifteen.
		Pascal, an understandly curious adolescent about this restriction, started working on geometry himself at the age of twelve.
		Thereafter, it was impossible to restrain Pascal any longer and his father gave in when Pascal disocvered the sum of the angles of a triangle are two right angles.
	www.eingang.org /Lecture/pascal.html (417 words)

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		A prodigy in mathematics, Pascal had mastered Euclid's Elements by the age of 12.
		Pascal died at the age of 39 in intense pain after a malignant growth in his stomach spread to the brain.
		"Pascal's wager" expresses the conviction that belief in God is rational: if God does not exist, one stands to lose nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.
	www.phy.hr /~dpaar/fizicari/xpascal.html (371 words)

	Blaise Pascal
		Pascal became involved with a religious movement in France know as Jansenism after its founder Cornelis Jansen (1585-1636) in 1646 when Pascal's father had an accident and was cared for by Jansenists.
		Pascal goes on to propose his famous wager to show that it is reasonable to believe in God.
		Blaise begins to work on his calculating machine to assist his father in the computation of taxes.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/philosophers/pascal.html (851 words)

	The Classical Library - Blaise Pascal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Etienne Pascal waited to teach the children geometry until they were old enough to appreciate it; but at age 11, young Blaise worked out some of Euclid's geometric propositions for himself.
		In 1647, observing the difficulty his father was having with tax calculations, Pascal invented a calculating machine that used a series of rotating discs, a system that has been the basis of calculating machines up to modern times.
		One of his discoveries, known in physics as Pascal's Law, states that when pressure is applied to any part of an enclosed liquid the pressure is distributed equally to all parts of the liquid.
	www.classicallibrary.org /pascal (388 words)

	Amazon.com: Pensees (Penguin Classics): Books: Blaise Pascal,A. J. Krailsheimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pascal intends here to walk a fine line between what he believed to be the logical absurdity of faith in complete contradiction to reason, but also of the bankruptcy as he saw it of reason alone becoming the basis for our faith.
		Pascal's science is embarassing to defenders of prevalent Darwinian atheistic science because of his zeal for the Christian faith.
		Pascal made some important discoveries but he "abandoned science for religion" and for that reason is tagged as an historical anachronism - he like many of the scientists of the 17th century were heavily tainted with `folk belief' and superstitions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140446451?v=glance (3279 words)

	Blaise Pascal - Pascal's Wager
		It was on this date, June 19, 1623, that French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal was born at Clermont-Ferrand.
		(2) Pascal's Wager amounts to a choice between Roman Catholicism and Atheism, as evidenced by Pascal's assumption that God has prepared a place of torment for non-believers, which was not a part of his original premise.
		Never a picture of good health, Pascal died in Paris on 19 August 1662, probably from a combination of tuberculosis and stomach cancer, at the age of 39.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0619b-almanac.htm (601 words)

	Pascal's Wager
		Pascal addresses this at once in his second argument, which we will discuss only briefly, as it can be thought of as just a prelude to the main argument.
		Pascal's guiding insight is that the argument from expectation goes through equally well whatever your probability for God's existence is, provided that it is non-zero and finite (non-infinitesimal) — "a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss".
		Pascal presumably had in mind the Catholic conception of God — let us suppose that this is the God who either ‘exists’ or ‘does not exist’.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/pascal-wager (5545 words)

	Blaise Pascal
		Pascal began designing a calculating machine, which he finally perfected when he was thirty, the pascaline, a beautiful handcrafted box about fourteen by five by three inches.
		In 1650, when in the midst of these researches, Pascal suddenly abandoned his favorite pursuits to study religion, or, as he says in his Pensées, "contemplate the greatness and the misery of man''; and about the same time he persuaded the younger of his two sisters to enter the Port Royal society.
		Pascal was dismayed and disgusted by society's reactions to his machine and completely renounced his interest in science an mathematics, devoting the rest of his life to God.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/pascal_blaise.html (1036 words)

	Glimpses bulletin #2: Blaise Pascal, scientist and Christian
		Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), the French genius who in his brief lifetime made numerous world-changing discoveries, knew there was much, much more.
		Yet, though Pascal knew very well the power of the mind and the potential of human reason, he also knew that people cannot solve the deepest mysteries and needs of life with their minds alone.
		Pascal is considered to have invented the wristwatch.
	chi.gospelcom.net /GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps002.shtml (1140 words)

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