{"product_id":"2940149403608","title":"Letters to a Provincial [Christmas Summary Classics]","description":"BLAISE PASCAL\u003cbr\u003eBlaise Pascal, mathematician, theologian, and one of the greatest writers of French prose, was born on June 19, 1623, at Clermont-Ferrand, and died on August 19, 1662. His mother died in his fourth year, and the father, an eminent lawyer, took the boy with his two sisters to Paris. Pascal showed the most astonishing mathematical genius; he produced at the age of seventeen a profound work on conic sections, and devoted the following years to physical researches and to investigations in the higher mathematics. In 1654, Pascal, having experienced a remarkable vision, which he recorded on a parchment known as his \"amulet,\" renounced the world and entered on the ascetic life, in close relations with the Jansenist community. Hence, in the interests of Arnauld, the Jansenist leader, Pascal issued the famous \"Letters Written to a Provincial\" (\"Lettres Écrites par Louis de Montalte à un Provincial de ses Amis\"), a series of eighteen tracts directed with the keenest and bitterest irony against the casuistry of the Jesuits. The \"Letters\" appeared during a period of fourteen months, the first being dated January 23, 1656, and the last March 24, 1657. They took the form of little pamphlets, each of eight or twelve quarto pages; they had a very large circulation, and created an immense impression throughout Catholic countries. They are open letters, intended really for the public and not for any individual.","brand":"Kartindo Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149037912304,"sku":"2940149403608","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149403608_p0.jpg?v=1763716455","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149403608","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}