The seven follies of science; to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, marvels, and popular fallacies. A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. With numerous illustrations
A popular-science compendium by John Phin, published by D. Van Nostrand in New York in 1912, cataloguing perpetual motion, squaring the circle, and other famous impossibilities for general adult readers. The scanned pages here are close crops of body text in a Caslon-like serif with small-capital quotations and inset verse, so the usable material is typographic: crisp letterforms on toned paper, plus the book's diagrams of failed machines and geometric constructions.
