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... clock . The writer , a Clerkenwell watchmaker , relates : ' It is run by no less a power than the solar system itself , and approaches as nearly to the idea of perpetual motion as anything I know . Briefly , Mr. Burton availed himself ...
... clock . The writer , a Clerkenwell watchmaker , relates : ' It is run by no less a power than the solar system itself , and approaches as nearly to the idea of perpetual motion as anything I know . Briefly , Mr. Burton availed himself ...
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... clock that went with bullets ( which is now taken away from him by the King , it being his goods ) . ' In the years to follow , it was by no means uncommon to find a clock beating time by the descent of a ball or ' bullet ' along an ...
... clock that went with bullets ( which is now taken away from him by the King , it being his goods ) . ' In the years to follow , it was by no means uncommon to find a clock beating time by the descent of a ball or ' bullet ' along an ...
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... clock known as the Perpetuum Mobile . The clock was made by Giuseppe Campani , the famed inventor and clockmaker of Rome who also made lenses for telescopes . He lived and worked in Rome from about 1650 until his death in 1715 . Campani ...
... clock known as the Perpetuum Mobile . The clock was made by Giuseppe Campani , the famed inventor and clockmaker of Rome who also made lenses for telescopes . He lived and worked in Rome from about 1650 until his death in 1715 . Campani ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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