The Seven Follies of Science: A Popular Account of the Most Famous Scientific Impossibilities and the Attempts Which Have Been Made to Solve Them

This is a book for the leisure hour, and contains a popular narrative of some of the famous impossibilities which have been attempted by those who have taken the name of science in vain, as well as a number of arithmetical puzzles, optical delusions and similar entertaining matter. The seven follies with which the author deals in the larger part of the book are "The Squaring of the Circle," "The Duplication of the Cube," "The Trisection of the Angle," "Perpetual Motion," "Alchemy," "The Fix...