Seven Follies of Science
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123
1913
English
- Preface
- Introductory Note
- Folly 1: Squaring the Circle Part 1
- Folly 1: Squaring the Circle Part 2
- Folly 2: The Duplication of the Cube
- Folly 3: The Trisection of an Angle
- Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 1
- Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 2 - Absurdities
- Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 3 - Fallacies and Frauds
- Folly 5: The Transmutation of Metals--Alchemy
- Folly 6: The Fixation of Mercury
- Folly 7: The Universal Medicine and the Elixir of Life
- Additional Follies: Perpetual Lamps, Alkahest, Palingenesy, and Sympathy
- The Fourth Dimension
- Space, Bootstraps, Spiders, Sun-dials, and Compasses
- Micrography
- Illusions of the Senses
- Seeing through a Hole in the Hand and a Brick
- Curious Arithmetical Problems
- Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Accidental Discoveries and Steam Engines
- Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Whetstones, Lightning, Fire, Volcanoes, and Dynamite
- Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Copper, Steam, Vinegar, Lenses, Serpents, and Hair
- Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Worms, Flies, Dragon Flies, and Powdered Glass
- Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Age 21, Rules, Cinderella, Glass, and Frankenstein
- Words that Convey Erroneous Ideas and Knowledge is Power
The seven follies of science; a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, and marvels.
(Summary by John Phin)
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