A French court has blocked the export and foreign purchase of a 17th century arithmetic machine invented by Blaise Pascal to help ease the laborious task of calculating taxes. View on euronews ...

A rt and luxury auction house Christie’s has withdrawn the world’s first calculating machine, designed by French mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1642.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 ...

A rare 17th-century calculating machine created by French mathematician Blaise Pascal has become the center of a heated legal and cultural dispute, after a Paris administrative court stepped in to ...

One of the world's first calculating machines will not go to auction as scheduled in France, after a Paris court ...

French scholars argued that the 17th-century Pascaline should go to a public collection and stay within the country. But a ...

Christie's said Wednesday it was suspending the Paris auction of one of just a handful of examples of the world's first calculating machine, developed by French mathematician and inventor Blaise ...

Christie’s said on Wednesday it was suspending the Paris auction of one of just a handful of examples of the world’s first calculating machine, developed by French mathematician and inventor Blaise ...

Paris: Christie's said Wednesday it was suspending the Paris auction of an example of the world's first calculating machine, developed by French mathematician and inventor Blaise Pascal at the age of ...

Christie's said Wednesday it was suspending the Paris auction of one of just a handful of examples of the world's first calculating machine, developed by French mathematician and inventor Blaise ...