Pascal L'intégrale : OEuvres complètes, 20 titres avec illustrations et annexes enrichies (Format professionnel électronique © Ink Book édition). (Les Intégrales)

by Blaise Pascal

« Il faut lire Pascal, délire Pascal, fils spirituel de Montaigne et cartésien renégat, il faut écouter ce qu’il dit, loin du projet qui fut le sien, à mille lieues de toute apologie, hors-Dieu, là où les hommes pataugent dans la misère. Pascal ? Les Pensées de Pascal ? Une œuvre heureusement inachevée, qui n’a pas eu le temps d’atténuer la vérité de son diagnostic par la banalité d’une conversion. » (Raphael Einthoven)

L’intégrale de Blaise Pascal, relue, corrigée, mise en forme et enregistrée au Format professionnel électronique © Ink Book édition.

L’intégrale de Blaise Pascal, relue, corrigée, mise en forme et enregistrée au Format professionnel électronique © Ink Book édition.Format professionnel électronique © Ink Book édition.

Contenant :

— ŒUVRES PHILOSOPHIQUES ET THÉOLOGIQUES—
Les Provinciales
Pensées
Discours sur les passions de l'amour
Abrégé de la vie de Jésus-Christ
Les écrits des curés de Paris

— ŒUVRES DE PHYSIQUE —
Nouvelles expériences touchant le vide
Traité de l'équilibre des liqueurs
Traité de la pesanteur de la masse de l’air
Nouvelles expériences faites en Angleterre

— ŒUVRES DE MATHÉMATIQUES —
Essais pour les coniques
La machine arithmétique
Traité du triangle arithmétique
Traité des ordres numériques
Réflexions sur les conditions des prix
Histoire de la roulette
Traité des trilignes rectangles, et de leurs onglets
Traité des sinus du quart de cercle
Traité des arcs de cercle
Petit traité des solides circulaires

— ANNEXES —
Biographie par Émile Boutroux

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Published June 12th 2018 by Ink book

Blaise Pascal

Among the contemporaries of Descartes none displayed greater natural genius than Pascal, but his mathematical reputation rests more on what he might have done than on what he actually effected, as during a considerable part of his life he deemed it his duty to devote his whole time to religious exercises.

At 16, 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. The first accurate mechanical calculator was born.

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. He is best known for his collection of spiritual essays, Les Pensees.

Ironically, Pascal, who was a genius by any measure, with one of the finest brains of all time, died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 39.

He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a Tax Collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli.

In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism. Following a mystical experience in late 1654, he had his "second conversion", abandoned his scientific work, and devoted himself to philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensees.

In honor of his scientific contributions, the name Pascal has been given to the SI unit of pressure, to a programming language, and Pascal's law (an important principle of hydrostatics), and as mentioned above, Pascal's triangle and Pascal's wager still bear his name.

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