| 1857 - 850 pagina’s
...have at present no conception. 2. The Perpetual motion. This is a problem of a very different kind. The purse of Fortunatus, which could always drop a...construct a perpetual motion ; in this way. Let him bang the purse upside down, and with the stream ol peace which will flow out let him buy a «trong-Bteam-eDgipe,... | |
| 1858 - 448 pagina’s
...at present no conception. 2. The Perpetual motion. — This is a problem of a very different kind. The purse of Fortunatus, which could always drop a...of pence which will flow out, let him buy a strong steam engine, and pay for keeping it at work day and night. Have a new steam-engine ready to be set... | |
| 1859 - 448 pagina’s
...at present no conception. 2. The Perpetual motion, — This is a problem of a very different kind. The purse of Fortunatus, which could always drop a...of pence which will flow out, let him buy a strong steam engine, and pay for keeping it at work day and night. Have a new steam-engine ready to be set... | |
| 1859 - 448 pagina’s
...present no conception. 2. The Perpetual motion. — This is a problem of a very different kind. The puree of Fortunatus, which could always drop a penny out, though never a penny was put in, U a problem of the same kind. He who can construct this purse may construct a perpetual motion ; in... | |
| Philip Mirowski - 1991 - 468 pagina’s
...century was awash with further elaborations of this metaphoric triad. The mathematician De Morgan wrote, "The purse of Fortunatus, which could always drop...a penny was put in, is a problem of the same kind" (quoted in Dircks 1870, p. 148). Across the Channel, Bernard Brunhes waxed eloquent: "In nature, the... | |
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