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Roberto Rossellini directed a filmed biopic, Blaise Pascal, which originally aired on Italian television in 1971. [ 59] Pascal was a subject of the first edition of the 1984 BBC Two documentary, Sea of Faith, presented by Don Cupitt. The chameleon in the film Tangled is named for Pascal .
Blaise (name) Blaise is a masculine given name and surname. It is the French derivation of the Latin Blaesus (later Blasius ), Greek Βλασιος ( Vlasios ), and is of uncertain etymological origin. One of the first known to bear the name was Roman proconsul Quintus Junius Blaesus. The name was popularized by Saint Blaise of Sebastia .
Blaise of Sebaste ( Armenian: Սուրբ Վլասի, Surb Vlasi; Greek: Ἅγιος Βλάσιος, Hágios Blásios; Latin: Blasius martyred 316 AD) was a physician and bishop of Sebastea in historical Lesser Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey) who is venerated as a Christian saint and martyr. He is counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers .
Pascal's calculator. Pascal's calculator (also known as the arithmetic machine or Pascaline) is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642. Pascal was led to develop a calculator by the laborious arithmetical calculations required by his father's work as the supervisor of taxes in Rouen. [ 2] He designed the machine to add and ...
Blaise Agüera y Arcas was born in Providence, Rhode Island to a Spanish father and an American mother. [2] He grew up in Mexico City. [1] [2] As a teenager, Agüera y Arcas interned with the U.S. Navy research center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he reprogrammed the guidance software for aircraft carriers to improve their stability at sea, which helped to reduce seasickness among sailors. [2]
Pensées. The Pensées ( Thoughts) is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. [ 1] It represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of ...
Blaise-sous-Arzillières, a village and commune in the Marne département of north-eastern France. Blaise, a former commune of the Ardennes département, now part of Vouziers. Blaise, a former commune of the Haute-Marne département, now part of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises. Blaise (Marne), a tributary of the Marne River, northeastern France.
Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and theologian. [1] This argument posits that individuals essentially engage in a life-defining gamble regarding the belief in the existence of God.