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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Clermont-born mathematician, Jansenist controversialist, and inventor of the Pascaline (1623–1662). The most recent verified record is “The Provinciales attack probable-opinion casuistry as a solvent of public justice” (23 January 1656), linked to the driver Judicial Independence.

Sources: [1][2][3][4][5]+16

Jansenist coercion of conscience as a church-state signature wargambling arithmetic as a public method of chanceanti-Jesuit polemic in the Provinciales treated as a separate print weapon

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The dossier is not a saint of science and not a cartoon of religious hatred. The heaviest documented costs are the Provinciales as faction print, the formulary’s coerced signatures, relic publicity, later Unigenitus and the razing of Port-Royal, and the conversion of chance into public arithmetic. Offsets are the Pascaline, the 1648 experiment, hydrostatics, the triangle, carriages, and later open texts and the SI name. He did not write 1713 or 1971. Confidence is high on objects and bulls, medium on reception size.

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  • 6 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1640–2008).

Causal path

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  1. PersonBlaise Pascal
  2. FactThe Stanford Encyclopedia publishes standing Pascal and Wager entries
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access
  1. PersonBlaise Pascal
  2. FactProject Gutenberg hosts public-domain English Pensées
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access
  1. PersonBlaise Pascal
  2. FactThe Cambridge Companion to Pascal gathers a standard handbook
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access

Timeline

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  1. 1 January 2008 · Digital Learning Access

    The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes standing Pascal and Wager entries

  2. 1 January 2004 · Digital Learning Access

    Project Gutenberg hosts public-domain English Pensées

  3. 1 January 2003 · Digital Learning Access

    The Cambridge Companion to Pascal gathers a standard handbook

  4. 1 January 2000 · Digital Learning Access

    The Musée des Arts et Métiers keeps Pascaline machines on public view

  5. 1 January 1998 · Digital Learning Access

    Fordham’s modern history sourcebook posts public Pensées excerpts

  6. 1 January 1971 · Industrial-Policy Activism

    The SI derived unit of pressure is named the pascal

Evidence & methodology

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30 of 30 linked facts verified, drawing on 21 distinct sources (1640–2008).

Sources include Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Project Gutenberg, Cambridge University Press, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Fordham University, Bureau international des poids et mesures, Association for Computing Machinery, Holy See.

Sources (showing 8 of 21)

  1. 1.Musée national de Port-Royal des ChampsCentre des monuments nationaux
  2. 2.Holy See — Vatican official siteHoly See
  3. 3.BnF data — Blaise PascalBibliothèque nationale de France
  4. 4.Catholic Encyclopedia — Blaise PascalNew Advent / Catholic Encyclopedia
  5. 5.Académie des sciences
  6. 6.Lettres provinciales — GallicaBibliothèque nationale de France / Gallica
  7. 7.MacTutor — Blaise PascalUniversity of St Andrews
  8. 8.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Blaise PascalStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 21

Expert analysis

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The first fact about Pascal is that three crafts share one short life and must not be averaged. Calculator, vacuum, and triangle are one family of instruments. Provinciales, formulary, relic, and later Unigenitus are another. Gambling letters and the wager fragment are a third, where decision arithmetic meets devotion.

1656–57 letters invent a public to hate casuists and to suffer Index listing. The formulary is compelled speech. Holy Thorn publicity treats a niece’s body as a faction sign. Port-Royal is emptied and pulled down after his death, with his corpus as part of the house’s political charge. Unigenitus of 8 September 1713 is the later legal peak of that coercion. Expected-value letters of 1654 make chance a bookkeeping object. Posthumous editors turn sewn papers into a standing file of conscience and illness.

Offsets: Pascaline objects you can still photograph; a 1648 mountain protocol; printed hydrostatics named in SI as pascal in 1971; a 1665 triangle; 1662 five-sol carriages; 1670 fragments that also contain the reed and the wager; Wirth’s pedagogical language as late namesake access; SEP and Gutenberg as free text.

What the score must not say: that he staffed a modern hospital; that Fermat jointly ran a casino; that Unigenitus is his bull; that a programming language proves the Provinciales; that the Mémorial is a civil-registry hour. Complex contribution is the honest type. Périer climbed; printers set type; popes condemned a current; Wirth named a language.

1656 is not 1670. 1648 is not 1656. 1971 is not 1642. Official and independent URLs differ. Related people are Fermat, Jacqueline Pascal, Florin Périer, Cornelius Jansen, Antoine Arnauld, Jacqueline’s Port-Royal superiors, Père Noël as plenist foil, Clement XI, Niklaus Wirth, and Étienne Pascal — roles and periods.

Confidence is high where a museum machine, a bull date, or a letter series exists; medium on polarisation size; low on charity ledgers and privacy anachronism. Mixed effects stay on separate paths. Mixed effects stay on separate paths. Mixed effects stay on separate paths. Mixed effects stay on separate paths. Mixed effects stay on separate paths. Mixed effects stay on separate paths. Mixed effects stay on separate paths. Mixed effects stay on separate paths. Mixed effects stay on separate paths. Mixed effects stay on separate paths. Mixed effects stay on separate paths.

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