Perpetual Motion: The History of an Obsession |
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... impossible which laid the foundations of our know- ledge of mechanics . Wise men , the founders of our modern ... impossible by any means . It is for this reason that the im- possibility of perpetual motion , by mechanical means , is but ...
... impossible which laid the foundations of our know- ledge of mechanics . Wise men , the founders of our modern ... impossible by any means . It is for this reason that the im- possibility of perpetual motion , by mechanical means , is but ...
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... impossible . However , this belief rested not upon any general principle but on the evidence that a careful examination of all the proposed devices claiming per- petual motion revealed that each possessed some theoretical flaw which ...
... impossible . However , this belief rested not upon any general principle but on the evidence that a careful examination of all the proposed devices claiming per- petual motion revealed that each possessed some theoretical flaw which ...
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... impossible have always had a strange fascination for the human mind . It is with this succinct observation that John Phin opened his interesting little book The Seven Follies of Science back in 1913 . He defined the follies as : I. The ...
... impossible have always had a strange fascination for the human mind . It is with this succinct observation that John Phin opened his interesting little book The Seven Follies of Science back in 1913 . He defined the follies as : I. The ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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