Blaise Pascal (jan 4, 1662 – feb 23, 1662)
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He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli.Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 4, 1662
feb 23, 1662
~ 1 months and 20 days