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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 56

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emity a weight, and movable on a hingeso that in one direction they can rest upon the circumfer-ence, while on the opposite side, being carried away by theweight at the extremity, they are obliged to arrange them-selves in the direction of the radius continued. This beingsupposed, it is evident…

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