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 239
n is mighty, and in the hands ofphilosophers and diplomats it accomplishes much, but it isonly when resting on the printing press that it is providedwith that fulcrum which enables it to raise the world bydiffusing knowledge, inculcating morality, and providingpleasure and culture for humanity at… … Peace on £attb and Good TlSlill toward Sben, INDEX PAGE Absurdities in perpetual motion . . 43Accuracy of modern methods of squaring the circle .... 17 Adams, perpetual motion . . 71 Age, when a man becomes of 212 Ahaz, dial of .... 133 Air, liquid . . ... 65 Alchemical names . 221 Alkahest, or…
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