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36547	Phin, John	The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] 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			.txt	text/plain	47600	1819	65	unfortunate fact that the circle-squarer and the perpetual-motion-seeker machines and contrivances for obtaining perpetual motion, and of explained as the drawing of a square inside a circle and at other times quadrature, by which a square, equal in area to a given circle, is times the ratio accepted by mechanics in general was determined by given by the following method: Divide the diameter into 7 equal parts by circumference: Inscribe in the given circle a square, and to three times cut out of sheet metal a circle 10 inches in diameter, and a square of This problem is not so generally known as that of squaring the circle, "a wheel supposed to be capable of producing a perpetual motion; the "'Father, I have invented a perpetual motion!' said a little fellow perpetual motion machine one of the scientific impossibilities? then asked if the philosophic work cost much or required long time,	./cache/36547.txt	./txt/36547.txt