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In a major biography of Blaise Pascal, James Connor explores both the intellectual giant whose theory of probability paved the way for modernity and the devout religious mystic who dared apply probability to faith.

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Pascals Wager

The Man Who Played Dice with God

James A. Connor

Contents The Man Who Played Dice with God The Witch A Dangerous World A - photo 1

Contents

The Man Who Played Dice with God

The Witch

A Dangerous World

A Thinking Reed

Blaise Among the Geometers

Un Btard Magnifique

Madame Sainctots Salon

Le Libertin rudit

Charming the Cardinal

Conic Sections

The Arithmetic Machine

The Jansenists

The Void

tienne Breaks His Hip

The Showman

Jacquelines Vocation

The Great Experiment

A Skirmish with the Devil

Port-Royal and the Clan Arnauld

The Great Arnauld

The Fronde of the Parlement

Adrift in the World

The Feud

The Gamblers Ruin

Letters to Fermat

The Night of Fire

So Jolly a Penitent

The Jesuit Menace

The Jesuit Menace, Part 2

The Miracle of the Holy Thorn

Pascals Wager

Port-Royal Agonistes

May God Never Abandon Me

Oracles, Dicing, and Schrdingers Cat

1588 PASCAL Birth of tienne Pascal father of Blaise Pascal in Clermont in - photo 2

1588

PASCAL

Birth of tienne Pascal, father of Blaise Pascal, in Clermont, in the Auvergne region.

FRANCE

May 12: Day of Barricades in Paris. Duc de Guise seizes the city.
July: Henry III capitulates to the duc de Guise.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

Spanish Armada nearly succeeds.

1605

PASCAL

FRANCE

Huguenot refugees resettle in Netherlands, Ireland.
Don Quixote is published.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

James River colony founded in Virginia.
Czar Boris Godunov dies.
Paul V becomes pope.

1616

PASCAL

(?) tienne Pascal marries Antoinette Begon.

FRANCE

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

Pocahontas arrives in England.
Copernicuss De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books.

1617

PASCAL

Birth of Anthonia Pascal, who dies days after her baptism.

FRANCE

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

Saint Rose of Lima dies in Peru.
Pocahontas dies.

1619

PASCAL

tienne Pascal buys Langhac mansion, near the abbey in Clermont.

FRANCE

Cyrano de Bergerac is born. Jean-Baptiste Colbert is born.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

Jamestown, Virginia, creates the first representative assembly in the Americas.
Slaves first brought to the colonies.

1620

PASCAL

Birth of Gilberte Pascal, who marries her cousin Florin Perier.

FRANCE

Jean Picard, French astronomer, is born.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

Plymouth colonists set out from England.
Witchcraft trials begin in Scotland.
Francis Bacon publishes the Novum organum .
Bonesetting becomes a science.
Thirty Years War begins in Prague.

1623

PASCAL

June 19: Blaise Pascal born in Clermont, the son of tienne Pascal, a minor noble and government official, and Antoinette Pascal, ne Begon.

FRANCE

Erotomania first mentioned as a mental illness. Phillipe de Mornay dies.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

August 6: Urban VIII Barberini elected pope. Would order the trial of Galileo.
Wilhelm Schickard invents the calculating clock, a first attempt at a computer.

1624

PASCAL

FRANCE

Cardinal Richelieu becomes first minister of France.
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres .

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

George Fox, founder of the Quakers, is born in England.
War between England and Spain.
Mail service begins in Denmark.
Saint Rosalio makes a miraculous appearance at a plague in Sicily.

16241634

PASCAL

FRANCE

Richelieu builds the Palais-Royal in Versailles.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

Cornelius Drebbel discovers gases.

1625

PASCAL

Birth of Jacqueline Pascal.

FRANCE

Henrietta Maria, princess of France and Navarre, marries Charles I of England.
Thomas Corneille is born.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

James I of England dies.

1626

PASCAL

Antoinette Pascal dies.

FRANCE

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

Saint Peters Basilica is consecrated.
Charles I dissolves Parliament.
The Dutch settle Manhattan.

1627

PASCAL

FRANCE

Richelieu sets out to establish the supremacy of the crown.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

The aurochs are hunted to extinction, with the last one killed in Poland.

1628
1628

PASCAL

FRANCE

Richelieu defeats the rebellious Huguenots.
Richelieu founds the Acadmie Franaise.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

1630

PASCAL

FRANCE

Day of Dupes.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

1631

PASCAL

tienne moves to Paris and directs his childrens education based on the pedagogy of Montaigne. Blaise proves to be exceptional at mathematics.

FRANCE

The bell Emmanuelle in Notre Dame Cathedral is recast.
Ren Le Bossu, French critic, born.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

Imperial troops massacre about twenty thousand people in the city of Magdeburg.

1633

PASCAL

FRANCE

Saint-Cyran appointed father confessor to the nuns at Port-Royal de Paris by Mother Superior Anglique Arnauld.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

Trial of Galileo in Rome.
Samuel de Champlain, at the behest of Cardinal Richelieu, reclaims his role as commander of New France.

1635

PASCAL

Young Blaise revealed as a mathematical prodigy.

FRANCE

The Acadmie Franaise of Paris expands to become a national art society.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

1636

PASCAL

FRANCE

First performance of Pierre Corneilles play Le Cid .
Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit and explorer, born.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

Harvard College founded in the English colony of Massachusetts.
The first ancestors of John Adams migrate to America.
Roger Williams founds Rhode Island.

1637

PASCAL

FRANCE

Ren Descartes publishes the Discourse on Method .

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

1638

PASCAL

tienne goes into hiding after opposing a fiscal measure of Richelieus, but leaves the children in Paris.

FRANCE

Louis XIV is born.
Richelieu has Duvergier de Hauranne, the abb de Saint-Cyran, imprisoned at Vincennes for the disruption of the peace of the church. The solitaries at Port-Royal move out to the old monastery at Port-Royal des Champs. The nuns remain in Paris.
Cornelis Jansen dies.
The French admiral dEstres runs his entire fleet aground in Curaao.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

Dutch settle in Ceylon.
Maria Theresa of Spain, future wife of Louis XIV, born in Madrid.

1639

PASCAL

Blaises sister Jacqueline appears in a play before Richelieu, after which he not only pardons tienne but appoints him tax collector at Rouen.

FRANCE

Jean Racine, French dramatist and Jansenist, born.

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

Connecticuts first constitution, The Fundamental Orders, is adopted.
First printing house in the United States is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Montreal settled.

1640

PASCAL

Pascal family moves to Rouen. Blaise publishes his short work Essay on Conic Sections . Essay later discussed by Leibniz.

FRANCE

Posthumous publication of Jansens Augustinus .

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

First book, the Bay Psalm book, printed in America.

1641

PASCAL

Gilberte Pascal marries Florin Perier.

FRANCE

EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD

1642

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