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Calendar of Scientific Pioneers

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August 19, 1662. Blaise Pascal died.—A religious philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, the author of the “Provincial Letters” and the “Pensees,” Pascal spent the earlier part of his life in scientific studies. He made the first calculating machine, measured heights by the barometer, and with Fermat founded the theory of probabilities.

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