Étienne Pascal

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Étienne Pascal (Clermond, May 2, 1588 - Paris, September 24, 1651) was the father of Blaise Pascal. He also had two daughters: Gilberte (°1620) and Jacqueline (°1625). His wife Antoinette Begon died in 1626.

He was a local judge and member of the petite noblesse, who also had an interest in science and mathematics. He taught his son himself.

Étienne Pascal served on a scientific committee (whose members included Pierre Hérigone and Claude Mydorge) set up to determine whether Jean-Baptiste Morin's scheme for determining longitude from the Moon's motion was practical.

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• O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Étienne Pascal". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.