Art and luxury auction house Christie’s has withdrawn the world’s first calculating machine, designed by French mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1642. The decision was announced on Wednesday, after a ...

Christie’s has halted the sale of a rare 17th-century arithmetic machine that was due to be auctioned on November 19. Hours before the Pascaline, named after its polymath inventor Blaise Pascal, was ...

A Paris court has halted the sale of one of the world's oldest known calculators, blocking its scheduled auction and export from France. The ebony-inlaid device, known as La Pascaline, was invented in ...

Il y a 400 ans, naissait Blaise Pascal, philosophe, mathématicien, physicien. Pour Jean de Saint-Cheron, auteur de «Blaise Pascal. Voilà ce que c’est que la foi» (Salvator), si ce génie a marqué le ...

A judge temporarily blocked the sale of this Pascaline, the only known example of a Pascaline used to measure distances. Christie's images Limited 2025 In 1642, a teenage French scholar named Blaise ...

One of the world's first calculating machines will not go to auction as scheduled in France, after a Paris court provisionally blocked the historic item from being exported. Auction house Christie's ...

The sale was suspended afer a last minute court ruling Christie's has decided to suspend the sale of the Pascaline, which was due to take place on November 19, 2025, in Paris, after the Paris ...

Blaise Pascal (16231662) est un scientifique, philosophe et théologien qui peut nous apprendre beaucoup ! Véritable génie, il a exploré de nombreux domaines du savoir : mathématiques, physique, ...