Blaise Pascal

Recit de la grande experience de l'equilibre des liqueurs, projectee par le sieur B. P. Blaise Pascal] pour l'accomplissement du traicte qu'il a promis dans son abbrege touchant le vuide, et faite par le sieur F. P. Florent Perier] en une des plus hautes montagnes d'AuvergneDate de l'edition originale: 1648Sujet de l'ouvrage: Liqueurs -- Ouvrages avant 1800Sciences -- Experiences -- 17e siecle -- Ouvrages avant 1800"Comprend: Lettre de Florent Perier a B. Pascal, du 22 septembre 1648]"Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

Originally published in 1942, this book constitutes the companion volume to The Heart of Pascal (1945); both volumes were formed using selections from Pascal's Pensées. The text gathers together a series of selections, presented in French, which illustrate Pascal's Christian faith and thoughts on the relationship between man and God. An appendix and preface by the editor are also provided. This is a highly informative book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in Pascal and his late thought.

First published in 1947, as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the full text of Pascal's Entretien avec M. de Saci sur Épictète et Montaigne in the original French. A short editorial introduction in English is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Pascal and his thought.

First published in 1923, as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains a selection of Pascal's Lettres écrites a un provincial. The first, fourth, fifth and thirteenth letters are presented in French, with some modernisation of spelling. A short English editorial introduction is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Pascal and his thought.

Included in this volume are fourteen of the fragments intended for Pascal's Jansenist-inspired defense of the Christian religion. Using the Chevalier edition, these are grouped to present a logical development of three themes, "The State of Man in Ignorance of God," "The Wager," and "The Christian Life." This translation closely follows the French text (cross-referenced with the paragraph numbers of the Brunschvicg edition) and does not conceal the fragmentary style of the original. Translated and edited by Arthur H. Beattie, this volume also contains an introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Pascal, and a bibliography.

Una interesante reflexi n sobre la grandeza y miseria de la condici n humana. Traducci n, pr logo y edici n por el c lebre cr tico literario Juan Bautista Bergua y Edmundo Gonz lez-Blanco.Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), desde muy joven, demostr ser un verdadero genio y a los 18 a os invent la primera calculadora. Fue un pensador profundamente cristiano. De todas sus obras podemos destacar los siguientes rasgos; su inter's cient fico, literario y apolog tico.Los "Pensamientos" (o Pens es) fueron publicados por primera vez despu's de su muerte, hacia 1670. Esta obra, originariamente, fue pensada como una apolog a del cristianismo y, por tanto, es una obra inconclusa, compuesta por reflexiones en los que aborda diversos temas.El tema principal es su preocupaci n por el hombre. A Pascal le importa su relaci n con lo absoluto -Dios-, y lo relativo -las cosas pasajeras de la vida humana-. Por este motivo el autor se interesa por la grandeza y la miseria humana, el orden religioso, tico, est tico y pol tico de su vida. Su profundo realismo tr gico le permiti analizar, de forma maravillosa y original, c mo la raz n y el coraz n son v as distintas de acceso a nuestra realidad y a Dios: "El coraz n tiene sus razones que la raz n no conoce."Presentado por Manuel Fdez. de la Cueva Villalba, Profesor de Filosof a.

Blaise Pascal's famous Pens es (Thoughts) is, in reality, a collection of notes he made for a book he never wrote. Many of the thoughts are fragmentary in nature, and the sectionalising and numbering was devised by a later editor. Yet they contain the key ideas of his religious philosophy, including his famous wager, as well as many other insights and ideas such as his celebrated comment on Cleopatra's nose. This is a new edition (not a scan) of the W. F. Trotter translation of 1908, with an introduction by T. S. Eliot.

For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These became known as the Pens es, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and religious writing. --(Text refers to a previous edition)

Pascal's Pens es is a masterpiece, and a landmark in French literature. This is Pascal's most influential theological work in it he surveys several philosophical paradoxes: infinity and nothing, faith and reason, soul and matter, death and life, meaning and vanity-seemingly arriving at no definitive conclusions besides humility, ignorance, and grace.