Blaise Pascal

Author: Francois Mauriac
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 156
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171678815

Description

The Living thoughts Series presents the works of some of the greatest minds the world has ever witnessed. Thinkers, philosophers and other intellectuals are all profiled along with their major works.

Eminent French scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) exhibited traits of his scientific and mathematical genius from a very young age. He laid the foundation for the modem theory of probabilities, formulated a law of pressure and propagated a religious doctrine that taught the experience of god through the heart rather than through reason.

Contents

Pascal

Fragment of a Treatise on Vacuum

Prayer

The Art of Persuasion

Some Letters to Mademoiselle De Roannez

Thoughts

Provincial letters

Thoughts on Death