Works of Tyros Known to Author; Momentum Defined,
Differentiated, Measured and Explained; Energy
Defined, Differentiated, Measured and Explained;
Explanation by Author of Common Misconception of the
Relation of Momentum and Energy and Attempts to thus
Realize Perpetual Motion; the Fallacy Explained by
Illustrations of Energy Required for and Represented
by Acceleration and Retardation of Velocity; Property
of Numbers Relating to; Arithmetical Progression
Illustration 200-211
CHAPTER X--THE ALLEGED INVENTIONS OF EDWARD SOMMERSET, SIXTH EARL
AND SECOND MARQUIS OF WORCESTER, AND OF JEAN ERNEST ELI-BESSLER
(COUNCILLOR) ORFFYREUS--
Intense Interest Caused by; Notice of Marquis of
Worcester and Councillor Orffyreus and Periods in
Which They Lived; Description by Marquis of Worcester
of the Essentials of His Claimed Inventions; Excerpts
From Remarks of Councillor Orffyreus on His Claimed
Invention; Dedication by Councillor Orffyreus to God,
the Public, to Men of Learning and to Himself as the
Discoverer; Article Concerning the Orffyrean Wheel
Published 1720 in Gentlemen's Magazine; Criticism by "A
Constant Reader" of Attitude of W. Kenrick Concerning
the Orffyrean Wheel; Article by Rev. J. T. Desagulier
Concerning the Device of Marquis of Worcester and the
Orffyrean Wheel; Excerpt from Dr. William Kenrick's
Lecture on Perpetual Motion; De la Hire's Remarks
Concerning Perpetual Motion; Letter from Prof. 's
Gravesande to Sir Isaac Newton; Animadversions of Prof.
Alliman on the Neglect of the Orffyrean inventions;
Dr. Charles Hutton's Scientific Works and Notice of
the Orffyrean Wheel; Remarks by the Author on the
Historical Celebrity of These Inventions 212-255
CHAPTER XI--CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. A DISCUSSION OF THE RELATION
OF THE DOCTRINE OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, AND THE POSSIBILITY
OF PERPETUAL MOTION--
Statement of Doctrine of Conservation of Energy; Upon
What Proof of Doctrine Rests; Not Mathematically
Proved; Conforms to Natural Phenomena; Multiplied
Illustrations; Inter-changeability and Convertibility
of Heat with Mechanical and Other Forms of Energy;
Explanation of Heat and Energy Units, and Their
Relative Equivalents; British Thermal Unit, Foot-Pound
and Horse-Power and Their Mutual Relationship
Explained; Further Illustrations; Galileo's Famous
Pendulum Experiment; Apparent Anticipation of the
Principle of Conservation of Energy 256-269
CHAPTER XII--WILL PERPETUAL MOTION EVER BE ACCOMPLISHED?--
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