France 2023 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE We offer combined shipment when you purchase multiple different items, with an additional cost of only $0.50 per extra item. We also provide refunds for over-payments on shipping charges! (Please contact us if you need more details) On June 19, 2023, La Poste issues a stamp bearing the image of Blaise PASCAL, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, moralist and theologian on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his birth. Blaise Pascal: a genius. The man transcends all categories to establish himself as one of the most striking figures of the world's human and cultural heritage. Born in Clermont-Ferrand on June 19, 1623, he died in Paris on August 19, 1662. But he also lived in Rouen, established a program for draining the Poitou marshes, and fueled the scientific thinking of Europe of his time. Mathematics and physics first caught his attention. At sixteen, he composed an Essay on Conics. At thirty, he laid the foundations of the calculation of probabilities and wrote the Treatise on the Arithmetic Triangle. At thirty-five, he solved the geometric problem of the cycloid or “roulette”. Pascal also demonstrated the existence of the void. His work on atmospheric pressure led him to give his name to the unit of measurement associated with it: the “pascal” (Pa). But the young scientist is not only concerned with intellectual speculation. His father having been appointed tax commissioner in Rouen by Richelieu, he designed an arithmetic machine to help him in his calculations. This “pascaline” is the first calculator in history. By its mode of operation, it announces computing. As for Pascal's reflections, in the presentation text with which he accompanies his invention, they show that he is meditating on something akin to... artificial intelligence. Visionary? Pascal, from the outset, nevertheless thought about marketing his machine. A futurist entrepreneur, in 1662, in Paris, he founded the first urban public transport company with the “five-sol coaches”, ancestors of the bus. This activity, however intense it may be, unfolds in the interstices of an even more fervent spiritual and religious life. Seized from 1646 by Augustinian theology and the conception of faith of which Jean Duvergier de Hauranne, abbot of Saint-Cyran, and the monastery of Port-Royal are the heralds, Pascal therefore strives to lead a life in harmony with the great principles of Christianity: charity, reign of the heart and mind, respect for the poor and the humble, against all the selfish and material impulses of the fallen creature. Haunted by the fear that God would abandon him, dazzled by a few hours of mystical evidence that occurred on the night of November 23 to 24, 1654, he committed himself to Port-Royal, which had been persecuted since the publication of Jansenius' Augustinus. Pascal proves to be an exceptional polemicist. Defender of the truth, he composed flamboyant Provinciales: they earned him the admiration of all his contemporaries. Funny, passionate, brilliant, formidably informed, these eighteen “little letters” denounce in every tone the moral trickery and the tartufferies of the casuists. Pascal, finally, devoted the last years of his life to the development of a great work of which only fragments remain, collected under the name of Pensées. He intended to show that it was reasonable to believe, and that there is no faith without fervent love. Geometric rigor, incandescent poetry, prophecy straight from the Scriptures, intelligence of the other and the misery of the human condition, irony, power of thought, make this book in pieces a monument of the human soul. Blaise Pascal died at thirty-nine years and two months. Specifications:Printing technique - MixedFace value - 1.16Theme - Famous PeopleType of physical product - Beautiful single stampsNature of sending - Green letter (D+3)Type of bonding - GummedShipment destination - FranceMaximum weight - 20gLegal notices - Stamp: drawn by Florence Wojtyczka from a painted painting © Roger Quillot Art Museum Collection, Clermont Auvergne Métropole, Heritage Library. Elsa Catelin engraving Leaf outline: drawings by Florence Wojtyczka based on © photos Bibliothèque de Clermont MétropoleAuthor - WOJTYCZKA FlorenceIssue date - 06/19/2023Format - 30 x 40.85 mmNumber of stamps per presentation - 1Number of stamps - 15Permanent validity - NoArea of validity - Departing from mainland France to France, Andorra and Monaco. Departing from mainland France to the French Overseas Territories and vice versa. Inside the DOM

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