(The Conversation) — Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and a Catholic theologian, born 400 years ago, left a deep and lasting influence on the world that can be felt today. In fact, Pascal’s influence in ...
Readers of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica have been following a series of freewheeling conversations between Pope Francis and Eugenio Scalfari, the paper’s founder and a celebrated atheist now ...
To mark the quatercentenary of Pascal’s birth on June 19, 1623, the Vatican Apostolic Library showed journalists his most well-known work of Christian apologetics published posthumously from his notes ...
French mathematician, physicist, and inventor Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623. Pascal was home-schooled by his father, who believed he should not study math until he was 15, but he is said to ...
Pope Francis published an apostolic letter on Monday praising the 17th-century mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal as “a tireless seeker of truth.” Pascal (1623–1662) was a French scientist ...
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal was an all-around intellectual bad-ass. In his rather short life — Pascal succumbed to stomach cancer at the age of 39 — he managed to ...
Chief of staff to the rector of the Institut Catholique de Paris Pope Francis has published an apostolic letter paying tribute to Blaise Pascal, to mark the 400th anniversary of the philosopher's ...
"Who needs God? Man can make it on his own." So claimed Reason, the philosophy that captured the imagination of seventeenth-century France. Its champions, Voltaire and Descartes, among others, tried ...
On the 400th anniversary of the birth of Blaise Pascal, the Vatican Library displayed first editions of some of his most famous works. Pope Francis published an apostolic letter earlier this week ...
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