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
John Phin
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  • Elixir of life, [95]
  • Engineering, insect, [130]
  • Euler, [14], [118]
  • Fallacies in perpetual motion, [65]
  • Falstaff and the philosopher's stone, [97]
  • Faraday's discovery, [93]
  • Farrants, Prest. Royal Mic. Soc, [140]
  • Figure, a, enlarged by cutting, [126]
  • First folio Shakespeare, cost of, [168]
  • Fixation of mercury, [92]
  • Follies of Science, The Seven, [2]
    • D'Israeli's list, [2]
    • An inappropriate term, [3]
  • Fourth dimension—conception of, [117]
    • Flatland, [120]
    • Kant and Gauss, [121]
    • Spiritualists, [121]
    • Edward Carpenter on, [122]
    • Possibility of a new sense, [123]
  • Frauds in perpetual motion, [69]
  • Freezing of mercury, [93]
  • Froment, micrographs, [139]
  • Gases, liquefaction of, [93]
  • Geiser's clock, [71]
  • Geometrical quadrature impossible, [21]
  • Gibberish, origin of word, [96]
  • God, demonstration of existence of, [118]
  • Hammer made of solid mercury, [93]
  • Hand, to look through, [156]
  • Heat and cold, illusions, [150]
  • Hesse, Landgrave of, [77]
  • Hindoos, ratio accepted by, [16]
  • Holmes, O. W., and powder of sympathy, [111]
  • Homer's Iliad in nutshell, [136]
  • Honecourt, Wilars de, [42]
  • Horses lifted by child, [131]
  • Hydrofluoric acid, [104]
  • Hydrostatic paradox, [46]
  • Iliad of Homer in nutshell, [136]
  • Impossible, fascination of the, [1]
  • Insect engineering, [130]
  • Irradiation, [152]
  • Jews, ratio accepted by the, [13]
  • Keeley gold cure, [97]
  • Keeley motor, [69]
  • Kircher and palingenesy, [106]
  • Lacomme, on squaring circle, [27]
  • Lamps, ever-burning, [100]
  • Library, Congressional, in hand-bag, [145]
  • Light from electric earth-currents, [103]
  • Lines, geometrical, [119]
  • Lines, direction of, deceptive, [154]
    • Length of, deceptive, [153]
  • Liquid air, [65]
  • Lodge, Sir Oliver, on conservation of energy, [5]
  • Longitude, relation of squaring the circle to, [10]
  • McArthur, on arithmetic of ancients, [15]
  • Machin, [16]
  • Magnetism for perpetual motion, [61]
  • Man lifting himself, [128]
  • Mathematicians—how they go to heaven, [8]
  • Mercury, fixation of, [92]
    • Freezing of, [93]
  • Metals. See [Transmutation].
  • Metius, Peter, [16]
  • Micrography, or minute writing, [136]
    • Homer in a nutshell, [136]
    • Michael Angelo's seal, [136]
    • Ten Commandments, [136]
    • Bible in a nutshell, [136]
    • Earliest micrographic engraving, [139]
    • Micrographic copy of seal of Columbia College, [139]
    • Peters' machine, [141]
    • Lord's Prayer written at rate of 22 Bibles to square inch, [141]
    • Webb's fine writing, [142]
    • Calculation in regard to, [143]
    • Microphotographs by Dancer, [144]
    • Pigeon-post in Franco-Prussian War, [146]
  • Millionaire, to become a, [166]
  • Miracle—dial of Ahaz, [133]
  • Morgan. See [De Morgan].
  • Morton, President Henry, [66]
  • Motion, perpetual. See [Perpetual motion].
  • Muir, Prof. On Archimedes, [14]
  • Musitanus, Carolus, [96]
  • Nail problem, [164]
  • Nicomedean line, [29]