PASCAL : The Emergence of Genius ; 2nd Edition (Harper, TB 82)
Language: English
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, NY, 1961
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.100POCKETS
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Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 22.75
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Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/light soiling & surface wear. PO name to fEP. An intellectual biography of French Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), child prodigy educated by his father, mathematician, physicist, an early inventor of the mechanical calculator, philosopher, writer and Catholic theologian. French-American philosopher Emile Cailliet (1894 - 1981) traces Pascal's thought developement from from skeptic to believer, from scientist to Christian. Balanced analysis based on detailed coverage of Pascal's letters, notes, & conversations, with extended exposition of the debate between Pascal and the Jesuits on free will and predestination. Volume is an essay on ideas than a standard biography, although many interesting details in Pascal's life are included. 283 pgs in 18 chapters. Fine copy despite flaws.
Seller Inventory # 020137
Bibliographic details
- Title
- PASCAL : The Emergence of Genius ; 2nd Edition (Harper, TB 82)
- Author
- Emile Cailliet; (C.S. Duthie, Introduction)
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 1961
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- None as Issued
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 2nd Edition, 1961
- Seller catalogs
- Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Spiritual, Science, Technology
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