Blaise Pascal (French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician physicist inventor writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal’s earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli.
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1623-06-19
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Clermont-Ferrand, Early modern France, Auvergne (region)
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