The seven follies of science; a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. To which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, and marvels (1906)
Phin, John, 1830-1913 · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 120
PALINGENESY 109 fresh crystals of silver are deposited upon the silver already thrown down. When the illumination of this object under the microscope is properly managed, the appearance, which resembles that shown in Fig. 18, is exceedingly brilliant, and beautiful beyond description. That… … Fig. 18. thick, dumpy quarto in which the so-called seminal animal- cules are depicted as little men and women, and I have no doubt that, to the eye of this early observer, they had that appearance. But the microscopists of to-day know better. Sir Kenelm Digby, whose name is associated with the…
Scientific recreations · Geometry
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