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 69
S8 THE SEVEN FOLLIES OF SCIENCE raised by the buoyancy of the ball; because the moment the small valve in the center is opened (alt"hough only the size of a pin's head), No. 2 valve will have taken upon it- self to sustain the whole column of water from A to B. The said ball (No. 8) having passed… … No. 3, will, by appropriate weights or springs, close; the ball will proceed upwards to the next valve (No. 2), and perform the same operation there. Having arrived at A, it will float upon the_ surface three-fourths of its bulk out of water. Upon another ball in due course arriving under it, it…
Scientific recreations · Geometry
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