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The sicentist after whom our unit of pressure was named:
Blaise Pascal
Born: 19 June 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France
Died: 19 Aug 1662 in Paris, France
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- seventeenth century French mathematician (" Pascal's triangle") and religious philosopher.
Blaise Pascal's father Etienne Pascal had unorthodox educational views and decided to teach his son
himself. He decided that Blaise was not to study mathematics before the age of 15 and all
mathematics texts were removed from their house. Blaise however, his curiosity raised by this, started
to work on geometry himself at the age of 12. He was writing theses on acoustics before he was thirteen and invented calculating machine at nineteen.
By the time of his thirtieth birthday, just nine years before his death, he had written several books on religion.
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