Blaise Pascal
19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662
French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher who built one of the first mechanical calculators, pioneered probability theory, and wrote the Pensées.
Lived at the same time
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Life events
Birth
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Invented the Pascaline mechanical calculator
1642
He built the machine to help his father with tax computations.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Achievement
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Puy de Dôme experiment demonstrated that air pressure decreases with altitude
19 September 1648
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Experienced an intense religious conversion, his "night of fire"
23 November 1654
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Death
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