IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. As a youth, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ...
One of the world's first calculating machines will not go to auction as scheduled, France, after a Paris court provisionally blocked the historic item from being export. Auction house Christie's has ...
Christie's suspended its sale of the first calculating machine after an export ban kept it from leaving France, according to ...
The Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator, was built in 1642 by mathematician Blaise Pascal.
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the 17th century, the French ...