(:title Diderot and D'Alembert 1759 - Mechanism of the Pascaline:) (:Document: N :) %center% http://meta-studies.net/pmwiki/uploads/PA_Diderot.jpg The mechanism of the [[Site.Pascaline1652|Pascaline]] calculator of Blaise Pascal as detailed in this page of the famous Encyclopedia by Diderot and D'Alembert in its first folio edition published in 1759.[^Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert, //Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers//, Société de Gens de lettres, 1st edition, vol. 22, 1759.^] The page has been hand coloured, probably subsequent to publication. [^#^]