{"product_id":"pascal","title":"Pascal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat connects a calculating machine, a gambler’s dice, and a searching mind drawn to Christian faith?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Pascal, John Tulloch follows Blaise Pascal from a gifted childhood in provincial France into science, religious dispute, and philosophy. The boy works out geometry on his own. The young inventor builds a calculating machine. As Pascal investigates the vacuum and considers problems of chance, questions of mathematics sit alongside the demands of family and faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTulloch, a Scottish minister and church historian, gives Pascal’s religious life as much attention as his science. You meet the writer who challenges the Jesuits in the Provincial Letters and the thinker behind the unfinished Pensées. A quarrel within French Catholicism shapes the story, bringing Pascal’s convictions into conflict with the religious authorities around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA boy discovering geometry\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet the child who works out geometry for himself before his wider scientific life begins.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eScience with practical roots\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Pascal’s calculating machine alongside the long columns of sums in his father’s tax work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDice and difficult questions\u003c\/strong\u003e – See how the Chevalier de Méré’s questions about gambling lead Pascal toward problems of chance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFaith amid fierce dispute\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore the Catholic quarrel surrounding Port-Royal and Pascal’s challenge to the Jesuits in the Provincial Letters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe mind behind the Pensées\u003c\/strong\u003e – Approach the unfinished notes through a life that holds mathematics and Christian thought together.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who enjoy lives told through ideas and wonder how one mind can embrace both mathematics and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and meet Pascal at the beginning, among his family and his earliest discoveries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534776631644,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/14649_en_ebook-front_c21.jpg?v=1792175207","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/it\/products\/pascal-it","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}