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Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662. Early modern French thinker, known for his contributions to science and mathematics as well as his phiosophical writings. His philosophy, as expressed in the Pensees and Provincial Letters, is customarily placed in opposition to that of Descartes.

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• A Short Account of the History of Mathematics: Blaise Pascal

  http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Pascal/RouseBall/RB_Pascal.html
  Excerpts from a mathematical biography by W. W. Rouse Ball.

• Bartleby.com: Blaise Pascal

  http://www.bartleby.com/people/Pascal-B.html
  An online version of the Harvard Classics Pascal volume. Includes Thoughts, Letters and various lesser works including the Preface to the Treatise on the Vacuum.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Blaise Pascal

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11511a.htm
  Biographical entry.

• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive: Pascal

  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pascal.html
  An overview and selection of links.

• Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)

  http://www.ccel.org/ccel/pascal
  Resource page including links, a scanned article from the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, and the Trotter translation of the Pensees.

• The History Guide: Blaise Pascal

  http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/bpascal.html
  Brief biography with excerpts from Pascal's writings.

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