Diagrams of the Pascaline Mechanism from Recuil des machines et inventions approvées par l'Académie royale des Sciences, Tome 5, drawn by Gallon, 1735.[^see Guy Mourlevat, Les Machines Arithmetiques de Blaise Pascal, Memoires de l'Académie des sciences belles-lettres et arts de Clermont-Ferrand, Tome L 1, Clermont-Ferrand, 1988, pp. 21, and Planche 12 and 13.^]
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Diagrams of the Pascaline Mechanism from Diderot and d'Alembert, Encyclopédie, 1759[^Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert, Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres, 1st Folio edition, vol. 22, 1759. Plat II (hand coloured)^].
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Diagrams of the Pascaline Mechanism from Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal, 1779.[^Blaise Pascal, Jacques Detune, Nicolas Quesnel, Jean-Baptiste Bradel, Jean-Luc Nyon, and Charles Bossut, Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal, Tome premier [-cinquieme]. A La Haye [i.e. Paris]: chez Detune, libraire [i.e. Nyon]. M. DCC. LXXIX., 1779.^]
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