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... thought , however , that perpetual motion might be achieved through the use of forces other than that of gravity and seemed particularly to favour mag- netism as having some possible bearing on its realisation . Strange to say , Isaac ...
... thought , however , that perpetual motion might be achieved through the use of forces other than that of gravity and seemed particularly to favour mag- netism as having some possible bearing on its realisation . Strange to say , Isaac ...
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... thought of this invention , I could scarce forbear , with Archimedes , to cry out " Eureka ! Eureka ! " it seeming so in- fallible a way for the effecting of a perpetual motion that nothing could be so much as probably objected against ...
... thought of this invention , I could scarce forbear , with Archimedes , to cry out " Eureka ! Eureka ! " it seeming so in- fallible a way for the effecting of a perpetual motion that nothing could be so much as probably objected against ...
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... thought of it , a pleth- ora of projects had been drawn up which represented the water- wheel minus the screw , the water being pumped back up again in its own buckets . If one generalisation has to be made , then it must be that all ...
... thought of it , a pleth- ora of projects had been drawn up which represented the water- wheel minus the screw , the water being pumped back up again in its own buckets . If one generalisation has to be made , then it must be that all ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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