The Seven Follies of Science: A Popular Account of the Most Famous Scientific Impossibilities and the Attempts Which Have Been Made to Solve Them
Author:   John Phin
Publisher:   Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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9781530674671


Pages:   188
Publication Date:   21 March 2016
Format:   Paperback
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The Seven Follies of Science: A Popular Account of the Most Famous Scientific Impossibilities and the Attempts Which Have Been Made to Solve Them


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This is a book for the leisure hour, and contains a popular narrative of some of the famous impossibilities which have been attempted by those who have taken the name of science in vain, as well as a number of arithmetical puzzles, optical delusions and similar entertaining matter. The seven follies with which the author deals in the larger part of the book are -The Squaring of the Circle, - -The Duplication of the Cube, - -The Trisection of the Angle, - -Perpetual Motion, - -Alchemy, - -The Fixation of Mercury- and -The Elixir of Life.- A book of this kind does not call for serious criticism, and it would even be too much to expect that the author's explanations of why the perpetual motion absurdities cannot work should in every case be as ingenious as the absurdities themselves.

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Author:   John Phin
Publisher:   Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Imprint:   Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.259kg
ISBN:  

9781530674671


ISBN 10:   1530674670
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   21 March 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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