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What illnesses probably caused Blaise Pascal’s death in 1662?
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal, oil painting by an anonymous artist, c. 1650; in the Musée Carnavalet–Histoire de Paris, Paris. Pascal laid the foundation for probability theory.
Blaise Pascal died in 1662 after suffering from severe pain. It is believed that his death was caused by carcinomatous meningitis, which followed a malignant ulcer of the stomach.12