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Blaise Pascal - College Essays

Blaise Pascal

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, who
had already displayed exceptional ability. Blaise was kept at home in order to
ensure his not being overworked, and it was directed that his education should
be at first confined to the study of languages, and should not include any
mathematics. Young Pascal was very curious, one day at the age of twelve while
studying with his tutor, he asked about the study of geometry. After this he
began to ...

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of sixteen he wrote an essay on conic
sections; and in 1641 at the age of 18 he construced the first arithmetical
machine, an instrument with metal dials on the front on which the numbers were
entered. Once the entries had been completed the answer would be displayed in
small windows on the top of the device. This device was improved eight years
later. His correspondence with Fermat about this time shows that he was then
thurning his attention to analytical geometry and physics. At this time he
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 ...

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