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The Seven Follies of Science

The Seven Follies of Science

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Number of Chapters: 25

Length: 6 hours and 34 minutes

Language: English

The seven follies of science; a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, and marvels.
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Preface (tmkenny)
Introductory Note (tmkenny)
Folly 1: Squaring the Circle Part 1 (Availle)
Folly 1: Squaring the Circle Part 2 (Availle)
Folly 2: The Duplication of the Cube (Availle)
Folly 3: The Trisection of an Angle (Availle)
Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 1 (Tom Crawford)
Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 2 - Absurdities (mevans)
Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 3 - Fallacies and Frauds (mevans)
Folly 5: The Transmutation of Metals--Alchemy (Bev J Stevens)
Folly 6: The Fixation of Mercury (tmkenny)
Folly 7: The Universal Medicine and the Elixir of Life (tmkenny)
Additional Follies: Perpetual Lamps, Alkahest, Palingenesy, and Sympathy (Corinna Schultz)
The Fourth Dimension (RudeJohn)
Space, Bootstraps, Spiders, Sun-dials, and Compasses (Maye)
Micrography (Viridian)
Illusions of the Senses (Guero)
Seeing through a Hole in the Hand and a Brick (Guero)
Curious Arithmetical Problems (tmkenny)
Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Accidental Discoveries and Steam Engines (Stephanie Lee)
Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Whetstones, Lightning, Fire, Volcanoes, and Dynamite (Stephanie Lee)
Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Copper, Steam, Vinegar, Lenses, Serpents, and Hair (Stephanie Lee)
Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Worms, Flies, Dragon Flies, and Powdered Glass (Viridian)
Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Age 21, Rules, Cinderella, Glass, and Frankenstein (Amy Gramour)
Words that Convey Erroneous Ideas and Knowledge is Power (Alchemist)
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