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 59
44 THE SEVEN FOLLIES OF SCIENCE must roll towards the circumference. The machine ought, therefore, to turn incessantly towards that side." In his " Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy," Dr. Thomas Young speaks of these contrivances as fol- lows : " One of the most common fallacies, by which… … Fig. 7- number of weights ascending by a certain path, on one side of the center of motion and descending on the other at a greater distance, must cause a constant preponderance on the side of the descent: for this purpose the weights have either been fixed on hinges, which allow them to fall over…
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