IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. As a youth, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ...
Christie’s has halted the sale of a rare 17th-century arithmetic machine that was due to be auctioned on November 19. Hours before the Pascaline, named after its polymath inventor Blaise Pascal, was ...
This photograph shows La Pascaline, the first mechanical calculating machine, invented by French polymath Blaise Pascal, displayed at the Christie's auction house in Paris, on September 11, 2025.