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 (1912)
Phin, John, 1830-1913 · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 122
orms one element of a very minute voltaic couple and PALINGENESY 109 fresh crystals of silver are deposited upon the silver alreadythrown down. When the illumination of this object underthe microscope is properly managed, the appearance, whichresembles that shown in Fig. 18, is exceedingly… … Fig. 18. thick, dumpy quarto in which the so-called seminal animal-cules are depicted as little men and women, and I have nodoubt that, to the eye of this early observer, they had thatappearance. But the microscopists of to-day know better.Sir Kenelm Digby, whose name is associated with…
Scientific recreations · Geometry
Internet Archive · Cornell University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from Henry Cornelius Agrippa's Fourth book of occult philosophy, and geomancy. Magical elements of Peter de Abano. Astronomical geomancy [by Gerardus Cremonensis]. The nature of spirits [by Gorg Pictorius]. And arbatel of magic (1655)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cu31924006718757-69-9.webp)
