French philosopher

Invented one of the first calculators: the pascaline
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Very neat machine see
http://www.thocp.net/hardware/pascaline.htm (at bottom)
Primitive by today's standards but he attempted to sell it commercially; imagine there was a nascent computer industry in the 17th century.
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QuickSilver, or in particular its sequels, imagine just that!

Incidentally TheBaroqueCycle has its own wiki: http://baroquecycle.wikia.com/
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See also:
* PascalsWager
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