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Designing Experiments & Games of Chance: The Unconventional Science of Blaise Pascal
September 2003, Science History Publications/USA
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in English
0881353760 9780881353761
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Table of Contents
1.
A precosious genius.
Page 1
2.
Filling the void: From Galileo to Torricelli.
Page 17
3.
Creating emptiness: Pascal’s ingenious methods.
Page 41
4.
The battle of the void: The Jesuits against Pascal.
Page 65
5.
The great experiment on a mountain in France.
Page 99
6.
Why pumps work: The treatise on the equilibrium of liquids.
Page 129
7.
Submerged in a sea of air: The treatise on the weight of the mass of air.
Page 155
8.
Pascal on the advancement of learning in science and religion.
Page 187
9.
The use of logic and the role of experiments.
Page 209
10.
The marvelous arithmetical triangle.
Page 241
11.
Mastering games of chance.
Page 257
12.
Putting the arithmetical triangle to work.
Page 291
13.
The brilliance and pride of a gambler and a mathematician.
Page 313
Conclusion.
Page 333
Selected bibliography.
Page 341
Index
Page 347
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