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Science Kids: Science Images: Blaise Pascal
This image is of French physicist Blaise Pascal. He developed work on natural and applied sciences as well being a skilled mathematician and religious philosopher.
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Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Blaise Pascal (1623 1662)
A portrait of Blaise Pascal from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Blaise Pascal (1623 1662)
A portrait of Blaise Pascal from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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University of St Andrews: Blaise Pascal
This University of St. Andrews site contains biographical information and achievements of Blaise Pascal.
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University of St Andrews: Blaise Pascal
This site from the University of Saint Andrews provides a short biography of Pascal. Takes a philosophical angle. Features links to existentialist philosophy, seventeenth and eighteenth century literature, and philosophy pages.
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The First Mechcanical Calculator:
Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth-century French mathematician, thinker, and scientist, built the first mechanical adding machine in 1642 based on a design described by Hero of Alexandria (2 CE) to add up the distance a carriage traveled.