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Neither angel nor beast : the life and work of Blaise Pascal

Title
Neither angel nor beast : the life and work of Blaise Pascal / Francis X.J. Coleman.
Author
Coleman, Francis X. J.
Publication
  • New York : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.
  • ©1986

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Description
xiii, 227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
  • Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
  • Pascal, Blaise 1623-1662
  • Pascal, Blaise, (1623-1662) > Biographies
  • Pascal, Blaise
  • Philosophers > France > Biography
  • Philosophers
  • Mathématiciens > France > Biographies
  • Philosophes > France > Biographies
  • Écrivains français > 17e siècle > Biographies
  • Physiciens > France > Biographies
  • France
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies.
  • Biographie.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 216-219.
Contents
A sister's biography -- A witch's spell -- Pious appraisals -- The 'Mémorial' -- Probing nature and the heart -- Coming to terms with God -- The nascent polemicist -- Letters to family, friends, and savants -- God's champion -- The politics of orthodoxy -- An innocent astonished -- The wiles of the Casuists -- An innocent on the defensive -- The supreme apologist -- How to sway the doubtful -- Man without God -- Man with God -- The wager -- The heart -- The mystery of Jesus -- Life in the church.
ISBN
  • 0710206933
  • 9780710206930
LCCN
85028271
OCLC
  • ocm12943406
  • 12943406
  • SCSB-641230
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library