Filling the void : from Galileo to Torricelli
Creating emptiness : Pascal's ingenious methods
The battle of the void : the Jesuits against Pascal
The great experiment on a mountain in France
Why pumps work : the treatise on the equilibrium of liquids
Submerged in a sea of air : the treatise on the weight of the mass of air
Pascal on the advancement of learning in science and religion
The use of logic and the role of experimentation
The marvelous arithmetical triangle
Mastering games of chance
Putting the arithmetical triangle to work
The brilliance and pride of a gambler and a mathematician