Blaise Pascal
(1623–1662)

French mathematician, physicist, and Catholic philosopher of the Jansenist persuasion

Blaise Pascal

Works

  • Monsieur Pascall's thoughts, meditations, and prayers, touching matters moral and divine, 1688 external source
  • Thoughts on religion: and other subjects. 1704 external source
  • Pensées, posthumously published collection of "Thoughts" ranging from a single sentence to multiple paragraphs
  • Lettres Provinciales, an attack on casuistry which he condemned as complex reasoning to justify moral laxity and sin; it was condemned by the King and burned. external source or IA
  • Thoughts on the Pope and the Church
  • The Miscellaneous Writings of Pascal. tr. George Pearce, 1849 external source

Jansenist works

  • Thoughts on the Jesuits and the Jansenists
  • Writ on the Signing of the Form, rebuttal to the King's suppression of the Jansenists

Scientific works

  • On the equilibrium of fluids and weight of air
  • Account of the Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids
  • New Experiments with the Vacuum, 1647
  • Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle, 1653
  • Of the Geometrical Spirit
  • Geometry - Quickness of Intellect
  • On Geometrical Demonstration

Essays

Other works

Works about Pascal



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