{"id":220,"date":"2011-04-18T17:54:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T00:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2011-04-18T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T01:00:52","slug":"under-pressure-pascal%e2%80%99s-many-places-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Under pressure: Pascal\u2019s many places in the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/innovation\/famous-inventors\/famous-blaise-pascal-inventions.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Pascaline\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/12\/Pascalina.jpg\" alt=\"The Pascaline, an early digital calculator invented by Blaise Pascal\" width=\"200\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pascaline, an early digital calculator invented by Blaise Pascal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blaise Pascal was the quintessential Renaissance man. After all, how many people have a computer language, a religious argument, a triangle, a mathematical theorem, a law of physics and a unit of pressure named after them? Here was a man who could not only pose a philosophical wager, but also invent the system for calculating its odds and a digital calculator with which to tally the results.<\/p>\n<p>It is unusual for a prodigy to stray so widely and successfully from their first area of excellence, but, as Pascal put it, \u201cThe heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/innovation\/famous-inventors\/famous-blaise-pascal-inventions.htm\" target=\"_blank\">What were the famous Blaise Pascal inventions?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaise Pascal was the quintessential Renaissance man. After all, how many people have a computer language, a religious argument, a triangle, a mathematical theorem, a law of physics and a unit of pressure named after them? Here was a man who could not only pose a philosophical wager, but also invent the system for calculating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Under pressure: Pascal\u2019s many places in the sun<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,63,46,4,85,67,86,74,64,3,13],"tags":[89,19,80,88,5,44,87,41],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-culture","category-gadgets","category-history","category-mathematics","category-medicine","category-philosophy","category-physics","category-religion","category-science","category-technology","tag-blaise-pascal","tag-brakes","tag-fluid-dynamics","tag-gambling","tag-inventors","tag-las-vegas","tag-probability","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}