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Blaise Pascal

Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker about God

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  • © 1995

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  1. Donald Adamson
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Donald Adamson
    Pages 1-20

  3. Foundations

    • Donald Adamson
    Pages 21-47

  4. Jansenism

    • Donald Adamson
    Pages 49-62

  5. A ‘God-Inebriated Man’

    • Donald Adamson
    Pages 63-84

  6. The Provincial Letters

    • Donald Adamson
    Pages 85-114

  7. The Christian Life

    • Donald Adamson
    Pages 115-142

  8. Human Nature

    • Donald Adamson
    Pages 143-160

  9. The Wager

    • Donald Adamson
    Pages 161-173

  10. The Scriptures

    • Donald Adamson
    Pages 175-188

  11. Pascal, ‘Devout Geometrician’

    • Donald Adamson
    Pages 189-207

  12. Conclusion

    • Donald Adamson
    Pages 209-232

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 233-297
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This chronological survey explores Pascal's (162362) achievement as mathematician, physicist and religious thinker; it also has a chapter on his life. His work on conic sections, the probability calculus, number theory, cycloid curves and hydrostatics is considered in detail. Analyses of the Provincial Letters and the Thoughts bring out the many distinctive features, thematicnn and technical, of each text. Pascal's lesser known works are also studied. There is a chapter on the Wager argument. A wide-ranging bibliography completes the book.

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DONALD ADAMSON

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