Lettre dédicatoire à Monseigneur le Chancelier, sur le sujet de la Machine novellement inventee par le Sieur B. P. pour faire toute sortes d'operations d'Arithmetique, par un movement regle, sans plume ny jettons.

Name: Dedication Letter to the Chancellor, on the subject of the Machine newly invented by Mr. B. P. to perform all sorts of arithmetical operations by movement regulated without springs or weights
Author: Blaise Pascal

Dedication Letter to the Chancellor, on the subject of the Machine newly invented by Mr. B. P. to perform all sorts of arithmetical operations by movement regulated without springs or weights

Author

Blaise Pascal

Language

French

Year

1645

Country

France

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

early modern europe

enlightenment

Lettre dédicatoire à Monseigneur le Chancelier, sur le sujet de la Machine novellement inventee par le Sieur B. P. pour faire toute sortes d'operations d'Arithmetique, par un movement regle, sans plume ny jettons.

The Pascaline is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642. Pascal was led to develop a calculator by the laborious arithmetical calculations required by his father's work as the supervisor of taxes in Rouen, France. He designed the machine to add and subtract two numbers and to perform multiplication and division through repeated addition or subtraction. It used a stylus to perform calculations.

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A Source Book in Mathematics

tr. David Eugene Smith, Vera Sanford, Wooster Woodruff Beman, Martin A. Nordgaard, Anna Savitsky, Jekuthiel Ginsburg, E. T. Bell, Florian Cajori, Laura Guggenbuhl, Ralph G. Archibald, D. H. Lehmer, Thomas Freeman Cope, J. D. Tamarkin, L. Leland Locke, Mark Kormes, Nevin C. Fisk, R. B. McClenon, Edward E. Whitford, Eva M. Sanford, W. H. Langdon, Helen M. Walker, Mary M. Taylor, Louis Weisner, Albert A. Bennett, C. Raymond Adams, Lao G. Simons, Frances Marguerite Clarke, Nathan Altshiller-Court, Morris Miller Slotnick, Roger A. Johnson, J. S. Turner, Henry P. Manning, Joseph Seidlin, Marcia L. Latham, Arnold Emch, James Singer, Henry S. White, Raymond Clare Archibald, Herbert P. Evans, E. Amelotti, Henry A. Ruger, Julian L. C. A. Gys, Evelyn Walker, Lincoln La Paz, H. Bateman, J. P. Kormes, D. Darkow · Dover · United States · 1959

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