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'National treasure': Christie's suspends sale of Blaise Pascal's 17th century calculating machine
The sale of an ancient arithmetic machine known as the 'Pascaline' has been suspended after a French administrative court blocked its export. Leading auction house Christie's decided to call off its ...
A judge temporarily blocked the sale of this Pascaline, the only known example of a Pascaline used to measure distances. Christie's images Limited 2025 In 1642, a teenage French scholar named Blaise ...
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