King Louis XIV once had a fascinating conversation with the renowned 17 th-century Roman Catholic philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. The king, intrigued, asked Pascal to present evidence ...

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Schickard is a professor at the University of Tubingen, Germany. Blaise Pascal builds a mechanical calculator in 1642. It has the capacity for eight digits, but has trouble carrying and its gears ...