Blaise Pascal is a 90-minute Franco-Italian TV movie, directed by Roberto Rossellini in 1971
This film describes the life of Blaise Pascal, from childhood to his untimely death at 39 years old. Pascal was a philosopher, mathematician and scientist. He tackled the theories of Galileo, discussed the experiments of Torricelli, defended the principles of science, then he converted to Christianity in 1651.
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His texts:
Essay for conics (1640)
New Experiments Touching the Vacuum (1647)
Account of the Great Experiment in the Balance of Liquors (1648)
Treatise on the gravity of air mass (1651-1653)
Treatise on the arithmetic triangle (1654)
The Provincials (Correspondences (1656-1657)
Elements of geometry (1657)
On the Geometric Spirit and the Art of Persuading (1657)
History of Roulette (1658)
The Art of Persuading (1660)
Thoughts (1669, posthumous)
Summary of the life of Jesus Christ (text found around 1840, published in 1846)