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Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason
Mary Ann Caws
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Description for Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason
Hardback. This new biography, which includes a preface by Tom Conley, covers many aspects of Blaise Pascal's life and work that are seldom found side by side: his religious motivations and his belief in miracles, his scientific passions, his practical savvy and the aphorisms of the Pensees, so influential worldwide. Series: Renaissance Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 40 illustrations, 30 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; BGT; HPCD; HRCC7; PBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
Blaise Pascal had an extraordinary life and career. Renowned as a child prodigy, he engaged with the intellectual ferment surrounding the mathematician Father Mersenne before turning to his scientific experiments, his work on mathematics and construction of mechanical calculating machines, his correspondence with Pierre de Fermat and Rene Descartes, and his 'Memorial', a scrap of paper he always wore close to his heart on which he described an overwhelming religious experience.This book considers Pascal's modes of writing - whether he is arguing with the strict puritanical modes of Church politics, in the guise of a naive 'provincial' trying to understand ... Read more
Blaise Pascal had an extraordinary life and career. Renowned as a child prodigy, he engaged with the intellectual ferment surrounding the mathematician Father Mersenne before turning to his scientific experiments, his work on mathematics and construction of mechanical calculating machines, his correspondence with Pierre de Fermat and Rene Descartes, and his 'Memorial', a scrap of paper he always wore close to his heart on which he described an overwhelming religious experience.This book considers Pascal's modes of writing - whether he is arguing with the strict puritanical modes of Church politics, in the guise of a naive 'provincial' trying to understand ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Renaissance Lives
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780237213
SKU
V9781780237213
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About Mary Ann Caws
Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature, Graduate School, City University of New York. She is the author of several books for Reaktion, including Pablo Picasso (2005), Salvador Dali (2008) and The Modern Art Cookbook (2013). Tom Conley is Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French) and of Visual and Environmental Studies ... Read more
Reviews for Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason
"Caws, one of the world authorities on the international avant-garde, both in poetry and in the visual arts, here turns her attention to the life and work of a seemingly very different writer, the great seventeenth-century thinker Blaise Pascal. As she shows brilliantly, Pascal's Pens es and other writings, which she has in fact been reading and ruminating on all ... Read more