Science et baroque : la polémique sur le vide entre Blaise Pascal et Étienne Noël (8 octobre 1647- été 1648)
Blaise Pascal, then a young man, and father Etienne Noel, a Jesuit, held very different views on the notion of the vacuum in physics. They thus started a controversy fuelled by letters which circulated between October 1647 and the summer 1648. This scientific polemic has only been partially analysed...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2006-04-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/2654 |