Christie will sell the first example of a history of computers developed by Blaise Pascal in 1642 at the Paris auction.
The auction house’s press release is called Pascalin “The most important scientific instruments available in auctions” and breakthrough inventions. The estimated value of the box decorated with ebony sticks is €2 million to €3 million.
this Pascalin Developed by Pascal at the age of 19 to assist his father Etienne, who was then president of the Cour des aides de Normandie (Consumption Commission). Elder Pascal is responsible for reorganizing the province’s tax revenue through “numerous mathematical operations, accounting calculations and other topographic surveys.”
Blaise Pascal designed three types of computers to simplify this process for his father: one for decimal calculations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), one for accounting (monetary calculations), and for the purpose of making measurements (calculate distances).
Christie points out that there are only nine original models Pascalin exists, and they are held in European museums such as Clermont-Ferrand. One belongs to the IBM series and the other belongs to Arts et Métiers in Paris.
The person who commissioned Christie’s to sell in Paris on November 19 is the only privately owned model, “the only known model for investigating computing.” It is worth noting that despite its age, it is still fully functional.
Pascalin Will be a sales of Bibliothèque Léon Parcé in Paris. The lots for the live auction include 15 volumes of written works by Pascal, which include Pensées It is estimated to be between 200,000 and 300,000 euros; and works by Descartes, Newton, Monticus and Anne de France, the Duchess and Des Verguni.
From France Enseignementà SaFille (School for Susanne de Bourbon’s daughter) is estimated to be between €150,000 and €250,000.
Before the live auction Pascalin On November 19, 17th-century computers will be exhibited at Christie’s Paris from September 10 to September 23, Christie’s New York from October 11 to October 15, Christie’s Hong Kong from October 23 to October 29, and then from November 13 to November 13 in Paris in Christie.
