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 71
have just escapedround the corner at C, and to be, by its buoyancy, risingup to valve No. 3, striking first the small projecting valvein the center, which when opened, the large one will be 58 THE SEVEN FOLLIES OF SCIENCE raised by the buoyancy of the ball; because the momentthe small valve in the… … No. 3, will, by appropriate weights or springs, close; theball will proceed upwards to the next valve (No. 2), andperform the same operation there. Having arrived at A,it will float upon the surface three-fourths of its bulk outof water. Upon another ball in due course arriving underit, it will be…
Scientific recreations · Geometry
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