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
A popular 1906 New York book by John Phin, a Van Nostrand publication for general readers, cataloguing famous scientific impossibilities such as perpetual motion, squaring the circle and related paradoxes. Its pictures are plain black-and-white line engravings of apparatus, wheels and siphon-like devices, drawn with clear lettered reference points so a designer can borrow simple diagrammatic forms and labelled schematic styling.
