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 88
MOTION 75 Such is the account given by the Marquis himself, andthat he exhibited such a wheel at the time and place whichhe names, I have not the least doubt. And that some ofthe weights on one side hung a foot further from the cen-ter than did weights on the other side is also no doubt true,but,… … Mr. Dircks in his Life, Times and Scientific Laboursof the Second Marquis of Worcester, gives an engravingof a wheel which complies with all the conditions laid downby the Marquis and which is thus described : Let the annexed diagram, Fig. 17, represent a wheel of14 feet in diameter, having 40…
Scientific recreations · Geometry
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