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Blaise Pascal [a] (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen .
The calculator by Blaise Pascal in 1642. [60] (see also Adding machine) Probability theory by Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal in the seventeenth century (with Gerolamo Cardano and Christiaan Huygens). [61] Vernier scale by Pierre Vernier in 1631. [62] [63] Spirit level by Melchisédech Thévenot in 1661. [64]
Pascaline (also known as the arithmetic machine or Pascal's calculator) is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642. Pascal was led to develop a calculator by the laborious arithmetical calculations required by his father's work as the supervisor of taxes in Rouen , France. [ 2 ]
Pages in category "17th-century French mathematicians" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. ... Blaise Pascal; Étienne Pascal; Pierre Petit ...
This is a list of notable French scientists. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. A José Achache (20th-21st centuries), geophysicist and ecologist Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783), mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher Claude Allègre (born 1937 ...
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) – French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and philosopher Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) – father of bacteriology [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788–1842) – co-discovered strychnine, caffeine, quinine, cinchonine, among many other discoveries in chemistry [ 51 ]
Two decades after Schickard's supposedly failed attempt, in 1642, Blaise Pascal decisively solved these particular problems with his invention of the mechanical calculator. [3] Co-opted into his father's labour as tax collector in Rouen, Pascal designed the calculator to help in the large amount of tedious arithmetic required; [ 4 ] it was ...
Blaise Pascal and Wilhelm Schickard were the two original inventors of the mechanical calculator in 1642. [1] For Pascal, this was an adding machine that could perform additions and subtractions directly and multiplication and divisions by repetitions, while Schickard's machine, invented several decades earlier, was less functionally efficient ...