Pascal vs. Descartes Pascal worked in areas besides calculating machinery and mathematics. By 1647, he had convinced himself, through experiments, ...

Descartes wrote, rather cruelly, in a letter to Huygens after this visit that Pascal 'has too much vacuum in his head'. The following morning, however, ...

Pascal was particularly impressed with the projective geometry of ... of Pascal as a young man who it seems “has a bit too much vacuum in his head, ...

Descartes visited Pascal in September 1647 and discussed the issue of the ... Pascal as a young man who it seems “has a bit too much vacuum in his head ...

Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World ... Descartes noted rather haughtily that Pascal “has too much vacuum in his head.

Unlike Descartes, Pascal does not have a town named after him— although there is a ... so much that he wrote that Pascal “has too much vacuum in his head.

Unfortunately, Pascal's meetings with Descartes to discuss the significance ... in Holland that he had found Pascal to have 'too much vacuum in his head'!

Descartes wrote , rather cruelly , in a letter to Huygens after this visit that Pascal ... has too much vacuum in his head . In August of 1648 Pascal ...

Descartes stayed for several hours and that he briefly consulted with Pascal ... after his visit with Pascal, that Pascal had 'too much vacuum in his head'.

When Pascal offered this explanation to René Descartes, the latter wrote, rather nastily, in a letter to Christiaan Huygens, that Pascal has too much vacuum ...