Great shorter works of Pascal. / Translated with an introd. by Emile Cailliet and John C. Blankenagel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 1974

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Philosophers--France--Biography.

Philosophers.

France.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

231 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Westminster Press, [1948]

Summary:

The large number of activities in this guide gives the students an opportunity to choose appropriate activities to help them become active learners and enthusiastic, thinking readers.

Contents:

Introduction

Letter from Pascal to Mlle [Mrs.] Perier (January 31,1643)

Letter to the Chancellor, Dedicating the Calculating Machine (1645)

Reply By Pascal to Father Noël [October-November, 1647]

Fragment of a preface to the Treatise on the Vacuum [October-November, 1647?]

Letter from Pascal to Monsieur Perier [November 15, 1647]

Fragment of a Letter from Pascal to Madame Perier (January 26, 1648)

Letter from Pascal to Monsieur Le Pailleur [February-March, 1648]

Fragment of a Letter from Pascal to Madame Perier (April 1, 1648)

Letter from Pascal to Madame Perier (November 5,1648)

Letter from Pascal to Monsieur and Madame Perier (October 17, 1651) On the Death of His Father

Letter from Pascal to Queen Christine of Sweden [About June, 1952]

Excerpt from a Letter by Pascal to Monsieur Perier (June 6, 1653)

Potestatum Numericarum Summa (Summation of Powers of Numbers) [1654?]

Letter from Pascal to Monsieur De Fermat (July 29, 1654)

Letter from Pascal to Monsieur De Fermat (August 24, 1654)

Letter from Pascal to Fermat (October 27, 1654)

Letter from Pascal to Madame Perier [October-November, 1654?]

Pascal's Memorial (Night of November 23, 1654)

Writing on the Conversion of the Sinner [November-December, 1654?]

Pascal's Conversation with Monsieur De Saci on Epictetus and Montaigne (Excerpt from Fontaine's Memories) [January, 1655?]

The Mystery of Jesus [1655?]

[A Short Exposition of the Problem of Grace] [1656?]

Excerpt from a Letter by Pascal to Monsieur and Mlle De Rouannez [September, 1656]

Excerpt from a Letter by Pascal to Monsieur and Mlle De Rouannez [September 24, 1656]

Excerpt from a Letter by Pascal to Monsieur and Mlle De Rouannez [October, 1656]

Excerpt from a Letter by Pascal to Monsieur and Mlle De Rouannez [October, 27, 1656]

Excerpt from a Letter by Pascal to Monsieur and Mlle De Rouannez [Sunday, November 5, 1656]

Excerpt from a Letter by Pascal to Monsieur and Mlle De Rouannez [November 1656]

Excerpt from a Letter by Pascal to Monsieur and Mlle De Rouannez [November to December, 1656]

Excerpt from a Letter by Pascal to Monsieur and Mlle De Rouannez [December 24, 1656]

Excerpt from a Letter by Pascal to a Friend in Clermont [April-May, 1657]

[Comparison of the Christians of the Earliest Times with those of Today] [1657]

Letters from a Lawyer in Parliament to one of his Friends Concerning the Inquisition which They want to Establish in France as a Result of a New Bull of Pope Alexander VII (June I, 1657)

[An Important Document. Excerpt from the Decree of the Index, Condemning the Provincial Letters (September 6, 1657)]

Factum for the Priests of Paris (January 25, 1658)

[Suggested Pronouncement against the Apology for the Casuists] (1658)

The Mind of the Geometrician [1658 or 1659]

The Art of Persuasion [1658 or 1659]

Three Discourses by Pascal on the Station of Noblemen [Redaction by Nicole] [End of 1659]

Letter from Pascal to Fermat (August 10, 1660)

Letter from Pascal to Madame De Sablé [End of 1660]

Writing by Pascal on the Signature of the Formulary [End of November or December, 1661]

Prayer by Pascal asking God to use Illnesses to a Good End [Between 1659 and 1661]

Pascal's Will (August 3, 1662).

Other Format:

Online version: Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662. Selections. English. 1974. Great shorter works of Pascal.

ISBN:

0837160723

9780837160726

OCLC:

1049141