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Month: March 2021

Get ready to celebrate the 400th birthday of Blaise Pascal – towering genius from the Deep Heart of France

March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 Richard AlexanderNotes from History

We watched Season 2 of Victoria on Amazon last week.  One of the episodes was especially interesting to me:  in it, Queen Victoria’s husband (Prince Albert) gets tremendously excited from meeting Charles Babbage, inventor of a great mechanical “difference engine” designed to perform complex calculations.    

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