⚠️DEATH MASK! BLAISE PASCAL! French Genius/Inventor/Author&Monk 1623-1662 Macab

Description: Read his story below, also lots more out there, a very interesting man who gave so so much in such a short life, he suffered terribly and yet still to this day is one of the most influential minds & still studied in universities throughout the world! *The detail in this death mask is absolutely amazing, due to Blaise's deviated septum and the problem with the bone structure of his brain the eyes are very deep set, the nose is particularly big and off centre, you can feel the dip at the bridge of the nose where the bone was not correct! It is unbelievably interesting and completely sets him apart! A very sad sale for me, it's hard to let him go, I'm hoping the next owner appreciates everything and more that I do, it's been very interesting getting to know this man, & come on he is cool as hell why would anyone not want to own him!!! He's a beaut!! Blaise Pascal Born 19 June 1623 Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France Died 19 August 1662 (aged 39) Paris, France Parent tienne Pascal (father) Relatives Marguerite Prier (niece) Jacqueline Pascal (sister) Gilberte Prier (sister) Philosophy career Era 17th-century philosophy Region Western philosophy School Cartesianism Jansenism Fideism Main interests TheologyMathematicsPhilosophyPhysics Notable ideas Probability theory Pascal distribution Pascal's wager Pascal's triangle Pascal's law Pascal's rule Pascal's theorem Pascal's calculator Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of conic sections at the age of 16. He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. In 1642, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines), establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.[8][9] Like his contemporary Ren Descartes, Pascal was also a pioneer in the natural and applied sciences. Pascal wrote in defense of the scientific method and produced several controversial results. He made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Following Torricelli and Galileo Galilei, he rebutted the likes of Aristotle and Descartes who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum in 1647. In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism.[10] Following a religious experience in late 1654, he began writing influential works on philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Penses, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits. The latter contains Pascal's wager, known in the original as the Discourse on the Machine,[11][12] a fideistic probabilistic argument for God's existence. In that year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetical triangle. Between 1658 and 1659, he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids. Later life & death T. S. Eliot described him during this phase of his life as "a man of the world among ascetics, and an ascetic among men of the world." Pascal's ascetic lifestyle derived from a belief that it was natural and necessary for a person to suffer. In 1659, Pascal fell seriously ill. During his last years, he frequently tried to reject the ministrations of his doctors, saying, "Sickness is the natural state of Christians."[52] Louis XIV suppressed the Jansenist movement at Port-Royal in 1661. In response, Pascal wrote one of his final works, crit sur la signature du formulaire ("Writ on the Signing of the Form"), exhorting the Jansenists not to give in. Later that year, his sister Jacqueline died, which convinced Pascal to cease his polemics on Jansenism. Pascal's last major achievement, returning to his mechanical genius, was inaugurating perhaps the first bus line, the carrosses cinq sols, moving passengers within Paris in a carriage with many seats. Pascal also designated the operation principles which were later used to plan public transportation: The carriages had a fixed route, fixed price, and left even if there were no passengers.[53] It is widely considered that the idea of public transportation was well ahead of time. The lines were not commercially successful, and the last one closed by 1675.[54] In 1662, Pascal's illness became more violent, and his emotional condition had severely worsened since his sister's death. Aware that his health was fading quickly, he sought a move to the hospital for incurable diseases, but his doctors declared that he was too unstable to be carried. In Paris on 18 August 1662, Pascal went into convulsions and received extreme unction. He died the next morning, his last words being "May God never abandon me," and was buried in the cemetery of Saint-tienne-du-Mont.[52] An autopsy performed after his death revealed grave problems with his stomach and other organs of his abdomen, along with damage to his brain. Despite the autopsy, the cause of his poor health was never precisely determined, though speculation focuses on tuberculosis, stomach cancer, or a combination of the two.[55] The headaches which affected Pascal are generally attributed to his brain

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