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Catalog date:
2011-09-11
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The Seven Follies of Science

John Phin (1830 - 1913)

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)

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Nature, Science

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface tmkenny
 00:05:02
Play 01 Introductory Note tmkenny
 00:15:38
Play 02 Folly 1: Squaring the Circle Part 1 Availle
 00:30:47
Play 03 Folly 1: Squaring the Circle Part 2 Availle
 00:17:31
Play 04 Folly 2: The Duplication of the Cube Availle
 00:05:12
Play 05 Folly 3: The Trisection of an Angle Availle
 00:05:08
Play 06 Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 1 Tom Crawford
 00:12:13
Play 07 Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 2 - Absurdities mevans
 00:35:58
Play 08 Folly 4: Perpetual Motion Part 3 - Fallacies and Frauds mevans
 00:25:29
Play 09 Folly 5: The Transmutation of Metals--Alchemy Bev J Stevens
 00:29:52
Play 10 Folly 6: The Fixation of Mercury tmkenny
 00:06:08
Play 11 Folly 7: The Universal Medicine and the Elixir of Life tmkenny
 00:06:19
Play 12 Additional Follies: Perpetual Lamps, Alkahest, Palingenesy, and Sympathy Corinna Schultz
 00:23:15
Play 13 The Fourth Dimension RudeJohn
 00:20:27
Play 14 Space, Bootstraps, Spiders, Sun-dials, and Compasses Maye
 00:14:08
Play 15 Micrography Viridian
 00:23:40
Play 16 Illusions of the Senses Guero
 00:08:03
Play 17 Seeing through a Hole in the Hand and a Brick Guero
 00:04:08
Play 18 Curious Arithmetical Problems tmkenny
 00:22:55
Play 19 Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Accidental Discoveries and Steam Engines Stephanie Lee
 00:12:31
Play 20 Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Whetstones, Lightning, Fire, Volcanoes, and Dynamite Stephanie Lee
 00:14:44
Play 21 Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Copper, Steam, Vinegar, Lenses, Serpents, and Hair Stephanie Lee
 00:14:17
Play 22 Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Worms, Flies, Dragon Flies, and Powdered Glass Viridian
 00:13:55
Play 23 Popular Fallacies and Common Errors: Age 21, Rules, Cinderella, Glass, and Frankenstein Amy Gramour
 00:11:34
Play 24 Words that Convey Erroneous Ideas and Knowledge is Power Alchemist
 00:15:14