Art and luxury auction house Christie’s has withdrawn the world’s first calculating machine, designed by French mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1642.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 ...
Un exemplaire de la toute première calculatrice de l’histoire mise au point par le plus célèbre des Clermontois Blaise Pascal sous Louis XIII, est dispersé chez Christie’s à Paris ce vendredi 19 ...
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'National treasure': Christie's suspends sale of Blaise Pascal's 17th century calculating machine
The sale of an ancient arithmetic machine known as the 'Pascaline' has been suspended after a French administrative court blocked its export. Leading auction house Christie's decided to call off its ...
Le juge des référés a suspendu le 18 novembre l’exécution du certificat d’exportation. Il avait été délivré par la ministre de la Culture à l’occasion de la vente aux enchères chez Christie’s de cette ...
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 ...
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 ...
The sale was suspended afer a last minute court ruling - Copyright AFP/File STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN The sale was suspended afer a last minute court ruling - Copyright AFP ...
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 ...
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