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Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)

7 dated entries naming Blaise Pascal, drawn from 6 separate years between 1623 CE and 1669 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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  • 1623June 19 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (d. 1662)source
  • 1625October 4 – Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and sister of Blaise Pascal (d. 1661)source
  • 1654November 23 – French mathematician, scientist and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense mystical vision that marks him for life.source
  • 1660Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered to be shredded and burned by King Louis XIV of France.source
  • 1662August 19 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)source
  • 1662March 18 – Carrosses à cinq sols, a short-lived experiment of the first public bus system (horse-drawn wagons holding eight passengers) begins in Paris as the idea of mathematician Blaise Pascal and financed by the Duc de Rouanez, with transportation to and from the Royal Square for the cost of five sous.source
  • 1669Blaise Pascal's Pensées is posthumously published in Paris.source

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