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 Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered to be shredded and burned by King Louis XIV of France.

Blaise Pascal's version of the triangle

* 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.

In the Historiettes he gives finished portraits of Vincent Voiture, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Malherbe, Jean Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and many others ; Blaise Pascal and Jean de la Fontaine appear in his work ; and he chronicles the scandals of which Ninon de l ' Enclos and Angélique Paulet were centres.

The last section of La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, 1913, a collaborative Artist's book | artists ' book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk

" Other principles were laid down by Blaise Gisbert in his L ' Eloquence chrétienne dans l ' idée et dans la pratique, by Amadeus Bajocensis in Paulus Ecclesiastes, seu Eloquentia Christiana, and by Guido ab Angelis in De Verbi Dei Prædicatione, all of which sounded a return to the simplicity of style of the Church Fathers.

) ( 1962 ), playing sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, co-starring Sir Alec Guinness ; I Could Go On Singing ( 1963 ), co-starring Judy Garland in her final screen role ; Hot Enough for June, ( aka " Agent 8¾ ") ( 1964 ), a James Bond-type spy spoof co-starring Robert Morley ; Modesty Blaise ( 1966 ), a campy spy send-up playing archvillain Gabriel opposite Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp and directed by Joseph Losey ; The Fixer ( 1968 ), based on Bernard Malamud's novel, co-starring Alan Bates ; Sebastian ( 1968 ), as Sebastian, a mathematician working on code decryption, who falls in love with Susannah York, a decrypter in the all-female decoding office he heads for British Intelligence, also co-starring Sir John Gielgud, and Lilli Palmer, co-produced by Michael Powell ; Oh!

In addition to the comic strips and graphic novels based on Modesty Blaise, O ' Donnell published two collections of short stories and twenty novels.

Willie Garvin is a character in the long-running British comic strip series Modesty Blaise, as well as a series of novels based upon the strip.

Although Willie Garvin continued to appear in the Modesty Blaise comic strip until O ' Donnell retired in 2002 ( actually he retired in 2001, but a book-length strip based upon one of his short stories subsequently appeared in a Scandinavian publication the next year ), chronologically his final appearance comes in the closing story of the 1996 short story collection Cobra Trap.

The film is based on the early years of the character Modesty Blaise, a former crime boss turned secret agent.

In the 2000s, Souvenir Press began a series of reprints of the Modesty Blaise books, and after acquiring the rights, re-issued Pieces of Modesty in March 2010 with new cover artwork based on the original hardback edition of the first Modesty Blaise novel ( as no first-edition hardback was published of Pieces of Modesty ).

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

In 1642, the Renaissance saw the invention of the mechanical calculator by the famous intellectual Blaise Pascal, a device that will eventually perform all four arithmetic operations without relying on human intelligence.

In 1642, while still a teenager, Blaise Pascal started some pioneering work on calculating machines and after three years of effort and 50 prototypes he invented the mechanical calculator.

Bartholomew and Blaise on the left panel, and Sts.

After Blaise Pascal encouraged him to do so, Huygens wrote the first book on probability theory, De ratiociniis in ludo aleae (" On Reasoning in Games of Chance "), which he had published at 5: 56 pm on April 10, 1657.

Having rounded the Cape of Good Hope at a considerable distance, Dias continued east and entered what he named Aguada de São Brás ( Bay of Saint Blaise )— later renamed Mossel Bay — on 3 February 1488.

For their ideas on derivatives, both Newton and Leibniz built on significant earlier work by mathematicians such as Isaac Barrow ( 1630 – 1677 ), René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), Christiaan Huygens ( 1629 – 1695 ), Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662 ) and John Wallis ( 1616 – 1703 ).

Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662 ) studied fluid hydrodynamics and hydrostatics, centered on the principles of hydraulic fluids.

Although Descartes views on this were challenged by Blaise Pascal, he declined to overturn the traditional belief, commonly stated in the form " Nature abhors a vacuum ".

Clermont-Ferrand was the home of mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal who tested Evangelista Torricelli's hypothesis concerning the influence of gas pressure on liquid equilibrium.

The cathedral was consecrated on December 29, 1226, dedicated to Saints Blaise, John the Baptist and Thomas Becket.

In 1917, when many theatres and concert halls were closed because of World War I, Blaise Cendrars and the painter Moise Kisling decided to put on concerts at 6 Rue Huyghens, the studio of the painter Émile Lejeune ( 1885 – 1964 ).

Other noteworthy intellectuals and religious figures on the Index include Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, André Gide, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Locke, Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, Hugo Grotius and Saint Faustina Kowalska.

As a result, he was overthrown and assassinated in a coup d ' état led by the French-backed Blaise Compaoré on October 15, 1987.

In addition to all these he published Denkwürdigkeiten aus der Geschichte des Christentums ( 1823-1824, 2 vols., 1825, 3 vols., 1846 ); Das Eine und Mannichfaltige des christlichen Lebens ( 1840 ); papers on Plotinus, Thomas Aquinas, Theobald Thamer, Blaise Pascal, John Henry Newman, Blanco White and Thomas Arnold, and other occasional pieces ( Kleine Gelegenheitsschriften, 1829 ), mainly of a practical, exegetical and historical character.

He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars.

Modesty Blaise debuted in the London Evening Standard on 13 May 1963.

The final Modesty Blaise strip ran in the Evening Standard on 11 April 2001.