Art and luxury auction house Christie’s has withdrawn the world’s first calculating machine, designed by French mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1642.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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Blaise Pascal is known for a number of things, but we remember him best for the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. [Chris Staecker] got a chance to take a close look at one, which is quite a ...
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 ...
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