The term casuistry quickly became pejorative with Blaise Pascal's attack on the misuse of casuistry.

File: Blaise pascal. jpg | Blaise Pascal ( 1623-1662 ): experimented with fluids, formulated Pascal's law in the 1650s stating that the pressure applied to a fluid taken in a closed container is transmitted with equal force throughout the container, proved that air has weight and that air pressure can produce a vacuum, namesake of the unit of pressure: the pascal ( Pa )

He also sent to France his famous " formulary ", that was to be signed by all the clergy as a means of detecting and extirpating Jansenism and which inflamed public opinion, leading to Blaise Pascal's defense of Jansenism.

This led to the formulary controversy, Blaise Pascal's writing of the Lettres Provinciales, and finally to the razing of the Jansenist convent of Port-Royal and the subsequent dissolving of its community.

This concept was first formulated in a slightly extended form by French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal in 1647 and became known as Pascal's Law.

Some people believe that although Torricelli's experiment was crucial, it was Blaise Pascal's experiments that proved the top space really contained vacuum.

* Blaise Pascal's Pensées is posthumously published.

Blaise Pascal's version of the triangle

Blaise Pascal's Écrits sur la grâce, based on what Michel Serres has called his " anamorphotic method ," attempted to conciliate the contradictory positions of Molinists and Calvinists by stating that both were partially right: Molinists, who claimed God's choice concerning a person's sin and salvation was a posteriori and contingent, while Calvinists claimed that it was a priori and necessary.

* Blaise Pascal's vision of November 23, 1654, which reinvigorated his spiritual commitment

Pascal's Wager ( also known as Pascal's Gambit ) is an argument in apologetic philosophy which was devised by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, Blaise Pascal.

* Blaise Pascal's Lettres Provinciales is burned as a heretical work on the orders of King Louis XIV of France.

* Blaise Pascal's poor health forces him to retire from the study of mathematics.

* Blaise Pascal's family move to Rouen.

He translated Blaise Pascal's Provincial Letters in 1657, under the title of Les Provinciales, or the Mystery of Jesuitisme, discovered in certain letters written upon occasion of the present differences at Sorbonne between the jansenists and the molinists, London, Royston, 1657 ).

Desargues's study on conic sections drew the attention of 16-year old Blaise Pascal and helped him formulate Pascal's theorem.

The mechanical calculator was invented in 1642 by Blaise Pascal, it was called Pascal's Calculator or Pascaline.

* Blaise Pascal's paper on the properties of the triangle is published posthumously.

* Blaise Pascal publishes his Traité du triangle arithmétique in which he describes a convenient tabular presentation for binomial coefficients, now called Pascal's triangle.

This concept was first formulated, in a slightly extended form, by the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal in 1647 and would later be known as Pascal's law.

His post-Cubist style of the twenties — flat, forthright, uncompromising — is virtually Blaise Pascal's " Spirit of Geometry.

Eventually, his progress took a decisive turn when he thought attentively about Blaise Pascal's words: " There is enough light for those who wish only to see, and enough darkness for those who have an opposite mood.

* 1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.

The Jesuits were seen as church's soldiers, and, in the view of some, given free rein to use whatever methods as outlined in the forged anti-Catholic document Monita Secreta, also known as the " Secret Instructions of the Jesuits " published ( 1612 and 1614 ) in Kraków, and were also accused of using casuistry to obtain justifications for the unjustifiable in their work ( See: formulary controversy ; Blaise Pascals ' Lettres Provinciales ).

Blaise Pascal accused the Jesuits of antinomianism in his Lettres provinciales, charging that Jesuit casuistry undermined moral principles.

The Lettres provinciales ( Provincial letters ) are a series of eighteen letters written by French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte.

Blaise Pascal, the French Mathematician, religious philosopher and Jansenist sympathiser, vigorously attacked the moral laxism of such Jesuits in his famous Lettres provinciales of 1656-57.

Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662 ) was a satirist for their cause ( in his Lettres provinciales ( 1656 – 57 )), but his greatest moral and religious work was his unfinished and fragmentary collection of thoughts justifying the Chrisian religion named Pensées ( Thoughts ) ( the most famous section being his discussion of the " pari " or " wager " on the possible eternity of the soul ).

She also translated Laboulaye's Fairy Book, Jean Macé's Fairy Tales and Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales ( Provincial Letters ).

The Pensées ( literally, " thoughts ") represented a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, the renowned 17th century philosopher and mathematician.

La logique, ou l ' art de penser, the Logique de Port-Royal, was an important textbook on logic first published anonymously in 1662 by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, two prominent members of the Jansenist movement ; Blaise Pascal likely contributed considerable portions of the text.

The atmosphere of serious study and Jansenist piety attracted a number of prominent cultural figures to the movement, including theologian and mathematician Blaise Pascal.

France ; Pierre Abelard, Michel de Montaigne, Louis Pasteur, Antoine Lavoisier, Henri Becquerel, René Descartes, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Pierre de Fermat, Blaise Pascal, the Montgolfier brothers, Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d ' Alembert, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Léon Foucault, Auguste and Louis Lumière, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, Jacques Lacan, Luc Montagnier, Albert Jacquard.

Several poets of the period — Jean Antoine de Baïf ( who founded an " Académie de Poésie et Musique " in 1570 ), Blaise de Vigenère and others — attempted to adapt into French the Latin, Greek or Hebrew poetic meters ; these experiments were called " vers mesurés " and " prose mesuré " ( for more, see the article " musique mesurée ").

Several poets of the period — Jean Antoine de Baïf ( who founded an " Académie de Poésie et de Musique " in 1570 ), Blaise de Vigenère and others — attempted to adapt into French the Latin, Greek or Hebrew poetic meters ; these experiments were called " vers mesurés " and " prose mesuré " ( for more, see the article " musique mesurée ").

The theological centre of the movement was the Parisian convent of Port-Royal, which was a haven for writers including Saint-Cyran, Arnauld, Pierre Nicole, Blaise Pascal, and Jean Racine.

He is buried beneath the floor of the Chapelle Saint Blaise Des Simples in Milly-la-Forêt.

This plot is thwarted when the expectant mother informs her confessor Blaise of her predicament ; they immediately baptize the boy at birth, thus freeing him from the power of Satan.

This text introduces Merlin's master Blaise, who is pictured as writing down Merlin's deeds, explaining how they came to be known and preserved.

While pressure may be measured in any unit of force divided by any unit of area, the SI unit of pressure ( the newton per square metre ) is called the pascal ( Pa ) after the seventeenth-century philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal.

A new international airport which carries the name of Blaise Diagne is under construction at Diass.

He also defines the term “ skepticism ” as he uses it and identifies two types of skeptic, the Apollonian, who is “ committed to clarity and rationality ” and the Dionysian, who is “ committed to passion and instinct .” William James, Bertrand Russell, and Friedrich Nietzsche exemplify the Apollonian skeptic, Carroll says, and Charles Sanders Peirce, Tertullian, Søren Kierkegaard, and Blaise Pascal are Dionysian skeptics.

It is named after the French mathematician Blaise Pascal in much of the Western world, although other mathematicians studied it centuries before him in India, Greece, Iran, China, Germany, and Italy.

There is no evidence that von Guericke was aware of the " Nouvelles Experiences touchant le vide " of Blaise Pascal published in 1647.

The pascal ( symbol: Pa ) is the SI derived unit of pressure, internal pressure, stress, Young's modulus and tensile strength, named after the French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and philosopher Blaise Pascal.

The unit is named after Blaise Pascal, the eminent French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher noted for his experiments with a barometer, an instrument to measure air pressure.

The Vigenère cipher is named for Blaise de Vigenère ( pictured ), although Giovan Battista Bellaso had invented the cipher earlier.

Giovan Battista Bellaso ; however, the scheme was later misattributed to Blaise de Vigenère in the 19th century, and is now widely known as the " Vigenère cipher ".

It is rare for the relationship between a character and an opposite-sex sidekick to lack romantic or sexual overtones of any kind — though there are examples, like Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin, and Encyclopedia Brown and Sally Kimball.

The Priory church is still in use as the Church of St Mary and St Blaise.

Currently the District is run by Superintendent Richard J. Buchenic, Blaise Karlovic as the Treasurer, and five elected community members comprising the Board of Education.

Baius is often seen in his relation to the latter movement of Jansenism and the Port-Royal theologians such as Blaise Pascal.

The tabula recta is often referred to in discussing pre-computer ciphers, including the Vigenère cipher and Blaise de Vigenère's less well-known autokey cipher.

Blaise Cendrars called the series " the modern Aeneid "; Guillaume Apollinaire said that " from the imaginative standpoint Fantômas is one of the richest works that exist.

Modesty Blaise is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by Peter O ' Donnell ( writer ) and Jim Holdaway ( art ) in 1963.

A dumbbell-shaped yawara | yawara stick, or " kongo " as it is called in the Modesty Blaise books and comic strips