@ARTICLE{Działoszyński_Bartosz_Pascal_2023,
 author={Działoszyński, Bartosz},
 number={No 4},
 pages={93-106},
 journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2023},
 publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN},
 publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego},
 abstract={This paper discusses Blaise Pascal’s account of the void and his struggle against the traditional concept of horror vacui (‘fear of the void’). The historical part of the paper relates the story of how Pascal was informed about Evangelista Torricelli’s experiments, how he got interested in the problem of the void and how he conducted his experimental research. Next comes a presentation of Pascal’s dispute with Father Étienne Noël, a Jesuit and Cartesian. Noël’s arguments against the void and Pascal’s counter-arguments in defence of the void are reiterated and discussed. Some reference is made to Pascal’s remarks on the void contained in his later works, such as Les Pensées. The presentation of Pascal’s research on the void is enlarged by some general remarks on his role in the 17th century scientific revolution.},
 title={Pascal and horror vacui},
 type={Artykuł},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/134628/PDF/2023-04-PFIL-07.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/pfns.2023.148649},
 keywords={‘horror vacui’, B. Pascal, space, vacuum, void},
}