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The Seven Follies of Science by John Phin

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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5:02
00 Preface
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15:38
01 Introductory Note
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30:47
02 Folly 1: Squaring the Circle Part 1
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17:31
03 Folly 1: Squaring the Circle Part 2
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5:12
04 Folly 2: The Duplication the Cube
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5:08
05 Folly 3: The Trisection of an Angle
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12:13
06 Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 1
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35:58
07 Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 2 - Absurdities
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25:29
08 Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 3 - Fallacies and...
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29:52
09 Folly 5: The Transmutaion of Metals--Alchemy
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6:08
10 Folly 6: The Fixation of Mercury
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6:19
11 Folly 7: The Universal Medicine and the Elixir of...
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23:15
12 Additional Follies: Perpetual Lamps, Alkahest,...
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20:27
13 The Fourth Dimension
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14:08
14 Space, Bootstraps, Spiders, Sun-dials, and Compasses
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23:40
15 Micrography
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8:03
16 Illusions of the Senses
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4:08
17 Seeing through a Hole in the Hand and a Brick
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22:55
18 Curious Arithmetical Problems
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12:31
19 Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Accidental...
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