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 55
THE SEVEN FOLLIES OF SCIENCE 44 must roll towards the circumference. The machine ought, therefore, to turn incessantly towards that side." In his "Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy," Dr. Thomas Young speaks of these contrivances as fol- lows : " One of the most common fallacies, by which the… … Fig. 7. number of weights ascending by a certain path, on one side of the center of motion and descending on the other at a greater distance, must cause a constant preponderance on the side of the descent: for this purpose the weights have either been fixed on hinges, which allow them to fall over…
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