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... Zimara and his notions and I quote freely from the paper on Zimara which he published in Isis in 1941 . Mark Antony Zimara was an Italian philosopher , physician , astrologer and alchemist . He was born at San Pietro in Galatino ( Lecce ) ...
... Zimara and his notions and I quote freely from the paper on Zimara which he published in Isis in 1941 . Mark Antony Zimara was an Italian philosopher , physician , astrologer and alchemist . He was born at San Pietro in Galatino ( Lecce ) ...
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... Zimara's description and the styles of illustration contemporary with the original publication . The picture drawn . by this artist , Burton Lee Potterveld , is reproduced here as Fig . 6 . In translation , Zimara's words read as ...
... Zimara's description and the styles of illustration contemporary with the original publication . The picture drawn . by this artist , Burton Lee Potterveld , is reproduced here as Fig . 6 . In translation , Zimara's words read as ...
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... Zimara made no provision for this device , pre- sumably since it could not readily be attached to the wheel , but would need to be attached to the axis and supported on an extra bearing . Such a triple crank it is , then , which in Zimara's ...
... Zimara made no provision for this device , pre- sumably since it could not readily be attached to the wheel , but would need to be attached to the axis and supported on an extra bearing . Such a triple crank it is , then , which in Zimara's ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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