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... Piece the Forty - Seventh - The Perpetual Motion ' , and announces it as follows : ' It is a mechanical and philosophical time - piece , which after great labour , numberless trials , unwearied attention , and immense expense , is at ...
... Piece the Forty - Seventh - The Perpetual Motion ' , and announces it as follows : ' It is a mechanical and philosophical time - piece , which after great labour , numberless trials , unwearied attention , and immense expense , is at ...
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... piece is origi- nated , continued , and perfected from the philosophical principle , by which alone it acts . ' The first reference to this piece is contained in the commonplace book of the Scottish astronomer James Ferguson in 1769 ...
... piece is origi- nated , continued , and perfected from the philosophical principle , by which alone it acts . ' The first reference to this piece is contained in the commonplace book of the Scottish astronomer James Ferguson in 1769 ...
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... piece of matter a motion round the earth at the rate of about five miles a second , or 1,800 miles an hour , and keep up the motion at this rate , we should overcome the gravita- tion of that piece of matter . This is what may be ...
... piece of matter a motion round the earth at the rate of about five miles a second , or 1,800 miles an hour , and keep up the motion at this rate , we should overcome the gravita- tion of that piece of matter . This is what may be ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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