Scientific Studies
by Henry Dircks
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About this eBook
- Author
- Dircks, Henry, 1806-1873
- Title
- Scientific Studies; or, Practical, in Contrast with Chimerical Pursuits
- Credits
- Produced by Simon Gardner, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- T: Technology
- Subject
- Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of, 1601-1667
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43841
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43841
- Release Date
- September 28, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber's Notes — SCIENTIFIC STUDIES: OR PRACTICAL, IN CONTRAST WITH CHIMERICAL PURSUITS; EXEMPLIFIED IN TWO POPULAR LECTURES.
- 2.INTRODUCTION.
- 3.LECTURE I. — ADDENDUM. — PREFACE.
- 4.CHIMERAS OF SCIENCE. — INTRODUCTION. — ASTROLOGY. — ALCHEMY. — SQUARING THE CIRCLE. — DUPLICATION OF THE CUBE. — TRISECTION OF AN ANGLE. — PERPETUUM MOBILE. — EXPLANATIONS OF THE PLATES. — Plate I.—Figure 1. — Figure 2. — Plate II. — Plate III. —Squaring the Circle. — Plate IV. — Plate V. — Plate VI.—Figure 1. — Figure 2. — OTHER WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. — Transcriber's Notes
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