Place

Clermont-Ferrand

Auvergne · Modern France

A town in the volcanic Auvergne, birthplace of Blaise Pascal, whose famous experiment on the vacuum was carried up a nearby mountain.

Thinkers Connected to Clermont-Ferrand

Pascal

1623 CE – 1662 CE

Mathematical genius turned anguished believer. The heart has reasons, he wrote, that reason does not know.

View on Atlas