by Francesco Paolo Adorno · Les Belles Lettres · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782251760308
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«Pascal» is the philosophical essay by Francesco Paolo Adorno, published by Les Belles Lettres in paperback (144 pages, in French).
It portrays Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), geometer, physicist and philosopher, as a key figure in modern science: inventor of probability calculus, of an arithmetic machine and author of the treatise on conic sections. It also addresses his anthropological vision of the human being, his defense of Catholicism and his polemical side.
Volume 23 of the «Figures du savoir» collection from Les Belles Lettres, published in 2000. Dewey classification: 194.
For readers of philosophy and history of science, with an approach also suitable for the university sphere.
