Terminally ill cartoonist says, ‘How would I believe you believe your own religion if you’re not trying to convert me?’ ...

Blaise Pascal independently rediscovered classical geometry at the age of 12 despite a ban on formal maths studies. His early ...

After his return to Catholicism, Blaise Pascal proposed a famous wager in his masterwork Pensées (Thoughts), taking a mere paragraph to do it. Since the existence of God cannot be proven, Pascal took ...

Blaise Pascal is known for a number of things, but we remember him best for the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. [Chris Staecker] got a chance to take a close look at one, which is quite a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. As a youth, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ...

“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams is dying of cancer and sharing his difficult journey on social media, including his recent decision to convert to Christianity. Adams did not give specifics of what that ...

One of the world's first calculating machines will not go to auction as scheduled, France, after a Paris court provisionally blocked the historic item from being export. Auction house Christie's has ...

A judge temporarily blocked the sale of this Pascaline, the only known example of a Pascaline used to measure distances. Christie's images Limited 2025 In 1642, a teenage French scholar named Blaise ...