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 36
ontinued, make EF equal to it; if to this line EF, SQUARING THE CIRCLE 23 its fifth part FG be added, the whole line AG will be equalto the circumference described with the radius CA, withinone-seventeen-thousandth part. The following construction gives even still closer results:Given the… … Fig. 2. drawn, it will be equal to the semi-circumference of thecircle, within one-hundred-thousandth part nearly. This isan error of one-thousandth of one per cent, an accuracyfar greater than any mechanic can attain with the toolsnow in use. When we have the length of the circumference and…
Scientific recreations · Geometry
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