The Seven Follies of Science - Free Audiobook

Author(s): John Phin

Language: English

Genre(s): Nature Non-fiction Science

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25 Chapter(s)

1. Preface
2. Introductory Note
3. Folly 1: Squaring the Circle Part 1
4. Folly 1: Squaring the Circle Part 2
5. Folly 2: The Duplication of the Cube
6. Folly 3: The Trisection of an Angle
7. Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 1
8. Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 2 - Absurdities
9. Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 3 - Fallacies and Frauds
10. Folly 5: The Transmutation of Metals--Alchemy
11. Folly 6: The Fixation of Mercury
12. Folly 7: The Universal Medicine and the Elixir of Life
13. Additional Follies: Perpetual Lamps, Alkahest, Palingenesy, and Sympathy
14. The Fourth Dimension
15. Space, Bootstraps, Spiders, Sun-dials, and Compasses
16. Micrography
17. Illusions of the Senses
18. Seeing through a Hole in the Hand and a Brick
19. Curious Arithmetical Problems
20. Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Accidental Discoveries and Steam Engines
21. Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Whetstones, Lightning, Fire, Volcanoes, and Dynamite
22. Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Copper, Steam, Vinegar, Lenses, Serpents, and Hair
23. Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Worms, Flies, Dragon Flies, and Powdered Glass
24. Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Age 21, Rules, Cinderella, Glass, and Frankenstein
25. Words that Convey Erroneous Ideas and Knowledge is Power

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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. (Summary by John Phin)

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