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Blaise Pascal - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. |
 | | Pascal's most influential theological work, the Pensées, was unfinished by his death, but a version of his notes for that book appeared in print in 1670, eight years after, and it soon became a classic of devotional literature. |
 | | Pascal died in Paris on August 19, 1662 and is buried there in the St. Étienne-du-Mont cemetery. |
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