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... Stevinus who was born at Bruges in 1548 and lived until 1620. This great mathematician was also a practical man - among his inventions was the land yacht with which he amused himself and friends on the sea - shores of the Netherlands in ...
... Stevinus who was born at Bruges in 1548 and lived until 1620. This great mathematician was also a practical man - among his inventions was the land yacht with which he amused himself and friends on the sea - shores of the Netherlands in ...
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... Stevinus showed that fourteen uniform balls on a uniform chain arranged on a triangle ABC so that four balls lay along AC and two along CB were balanced by the eight balls on the curve AEB . Stevinus demonstrated how the conditions of ...
... Stevinus showed that fourteen uniform balls on a uniform chain arranged on a triangle ABC so that four balls lay along AC and two along CB were balanced by the eight balls on the curve AEB . Stevinus demonstrated how the conditions of ...
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... Stevinus , but perceived that the conclusions were based largely on observations . ' Unques- tionably ' , he wrote in his book Mechanics , ' in the assumption from which Stevinus starts , that the endless chain does not move , there is ...
... Stevinus , but perceived that the conclusions were based largely on observations . ' Unques- tionably ' , he wrote in his book Mechanics , ' in the assumption from which Stevinus starts , that the endless chain does not move , there is ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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