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BNF, 2016 8vo (25 cm), 207, [1] pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps. This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Pascal, le cœur et la raison," held by the National Library of France from November 8, 2016, to January 29, 2017. The National Library of France holds the richest collection of Blaise Pascal's manuscripts and printed works, a thinker of extraordinary scope, always relevant, and resistant to any attempt at an exhaustive portrait. The book's approach takes us through the historical context (the "body" of history) of Pascal's work, then through the two facets of the work of reason (the mind), to the point where the latter confronts questions that bewilder it: the vacuum, chance, infinity, or... grace (the order of the heart). The whole thus brings forth the research and writings, terse and profound, of a major figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution, the reflection on logic and argumentation of a master of discourse, as evidenced by…
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- Title Pascal.Le Coeur et la Raison
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- Publisher Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
- ISBN 9782717727210
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