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Blaise Pascal (b. 1623, d. Paris 1662)

Blaise Pascal: Pensées de M. Pascal sur la Religion et sur quelques autres sujets [...]. Paris, Guillaume Desprez 1670. 1st ed., 2nd issue. 8vo. Title + [39] + 334 pp. (but mispaginated – there is a total of 179 leaves) + [10] + One blank. Book plate of George Harwood on inner paste down. Bound in cont. full calf, fronthinge with cracks but not weak. Upper part of spine with minor loss.

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, religious  philosopher. He laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities, formulated what came to be known as Pascal’s principle of pressure, and propagated a religious doctrine that taught the experience of God through the heart rather than through reason.

These fragmentary meditations on faith and reason influenced generations of thinkers, both sceptics and believers alike, making this work a fundamental text in the history of western thought and literature.

Provenance: Book Collector and Doctor of Medicine Torben Schiødt (1926–2009).

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Books and manuscripts, 12 December 2017

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