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Great Books of the Western World

Blaise Pascal, Mortimer J. Adler

  • 487 pages · about 8 hours
  • First published 1990
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1 About this book

Discusses the selection of works for and purpose of the set "Great Books of the Western World" and provides tools for use with the set, including author-to-idea and idea-to-author indexes and a ten-year reading list.

Good for readers who want: politics, mythology, philosophy, and a long read.

  • Greek and Roman Medicine
  • Greek Mathematics
  • Political science
  • Mythology
  • Magic
  • Sociology
  • Philosophy
  • Ethics

2 About Blaise Pascal

1623–1662

Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father Étienne Pascal, a tax collector in Rouen. His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of conic sections at the age of 16.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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