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 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Seven Follies of Science: To Which Is Added a Small Budget of Interesting Paradoxes, Illusions, Marvels, and Popular Fallacies, a Popualar Account of the Most Famous Scientific Impossibilities, and the Attempts Which Have Been Made to Solve Them IN the following pages I have endeavored to give a sim ple account of problems which have occupied the attention of the human mind ever since the dawn of civilization, and which can never lose their interest until time shall be no more. While to most persons these subjects will have but an historical interest, yet even from this point of view they are of more value than the history of empires, for they are the intellectual battlefields upon which much of our prog ress in science has been won. To a few, however, some of them may be of actual practical importance, for although the schoolmaster has been abroad for these many years, it is an unfortunate fact that the circle-squarer and the per petual-motion-seeker have not ceased out of the land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.