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 73
ce was suggested recently by a cor-respondent of Power. He describes it thus : The J-shaped tube A, Fig. 14, is open at both ends,but tapers at the lower end, as shown. A well-greasedcotton rope C passes over the wheel B and through the 6o THE SEVEN FOLLIES OF SCIENCE small opening of the tube with… … Fig. u. the tube between these lines is lifted by the water, whilethe rope on the other side of the pulley between these linesis pulled downward by gravity. The inventor offers the above suggestion rather as akind of puzzle than as a sober attempt to solve the famousproblem, and he concludes by…
Scientific recreations · Geometry
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