The Parchment Sewn Into Pascal's Coat
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — mathematician, physicist, one of the sharpest minds in France — sat alone in his room....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Mark 9:2-10.
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — mathematician, physicist, one of the sharpest minds in France — sat alone in his room. And for two hours, something broke through. He later scrawled it on a scrap of parchment in trembling, fragmented phrases: "FIRE. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob — not of the philosophers and scholars.…
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