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1、JamesA.ConnorPascal'sWagerPascal’sWagerTheManWhoPlayedDicewithGodJamesA.ConnorContentsTimeLinesIntroduction:TheManWhoPlayedDicewithGod1625:TheWitch1626–1631:ADangerousWorld1631–1635:AThinkingReed1635:BlaiseAmongtheGeometers1585–1642:UnBâtardMagnifique1631–1638:MadameSainctot’sSalonThe1640s:LeLibe

2、rtinÉrudit1638:CharmingtheCardinal1639–1640:ConicSections1642:TheArithmeticMachine1638:TheJansenists1614–1646:TheVoid1646:ÉtienneBreaksHisHipJanuaryandFebruary1647:TheShowman1647–1652:Jacqueline’sVocationSeptember19,1648:TheGreatExperiment1647:ASkirmishwiththeDevil1608:Port-RoyalandtheClanArnauld

3、1643:TheGreatArnauld1643,1648–1653:TheFrondeoftheParlement1648–1654:AdriftintheWorld1652:TheFeud1653–1654:TheGambler’sRuin1654:LetterstoFermat1654:TheNightofFire1656:SoJollyaPenitent1655–1661:TheJesuitMenace1656–1657:TheJesuitMenace,Part21656:TheMiracleoftheHolyThorn1658–1662:Pascal’sWager1660–16

4、62:Port-RoyalAgonistes1658–1662:MayGodNeverAbandonMeEpilogue:Oracles,Dicing,andSchrödinger’sCatNotesFurtherReadingAbouttheAuthorCopyrightAboutthePublisherTIMELINES1588PASCALBirthofÉtiennePascal,fatherofBlaisePascal,inClermont,intheAuvergneregion.FRANCEMay12:DayofBarricadesinParis.DucdeGuiseseizes

5、thecity.July:HenryIIIcapitulatestotheducdeGuise.EUROPEANDTHENEWWORLDSpanishArmadanearlysucceeds.1605PASCALFRANCEHuguenotrefugeesresettleinNetherlands,Ireland.DonQuixoteispublished.EUROPEANDTHENEWWORLDJamesRivercolonyfoundedinVirginia.CzarBorisGodunovdies.PaulVbecomespope.1616PASCAL(?)ÉtiennePasca

6、lmarriesAntoinetteBegon.FRANCEEUROPEANDTHENEWWORLDPocahontasarrivesinEngland.Copernicus’sDerevolutionibusisplacedontheIndexofForbiddenBooks.1617PASCALBirthofAnthoniaPascal,whodiesdaysafterherbaptism.FRANCEEUROPEANDTHENEWWORLDSaintRoseofLimadiesinPeru.Pocahontasdies.1619PASCALÉtiennePascalbuysLang

7、hacmansion,neartheabbeyinClermont.FRANCECyranodeBergeracisborn.Jean-BaptisteColbertisborn.EUROPEANDTHENEWWORLDJamestown,Virginia,createsthefirstrepresentativeassemblyintheAmericas.Slavesfirstbroughttothecolonies.1620PA