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Volume 10: The Story of Man’s Hunt For Free Motive Power and Energy, Perpetual Motion Retold, From Discovery to Innovation. Part II History of Perpetual Motion Since Renaissance Length 600 pages
Around Renaissance, science and religion were in conflict in Europe. Scientist found fallacies in religious doctrines based on faith, on the other hand, priests were not prepared to accommodate new knowledge claimed to be based on rational observation and experiments with nature by scientist that challenged doctrines of religion. At this point, I would like to say that, owing to the particular limitations of religion and science and conflict between them, there arose a third group comprising of self-styled, energetic and ambitious people, this group was dissatisfied with both of them. This group of people also wanted an answer to the fundamental questions of life and the universe, an absolute answer in the form of a working reality by creating devices by imitating diverse mechanism of nature to accomplish a particular task. This book presents you complete history of perpetual motion since Renaissance during which perpetual motion developed in an atmosphere of freedom, by this I mean, there were no fallacious laws of science to suppress the zeal of the perpetual motionist. Perpetual motion invented by Edward Somerset, Cornelius Drebbel, Orffyreus and many more other inventors have been discussed in a critical manner. The volume provides a rich and lively account of alchemists, perpetual motionists and their writings. Many among them were unacademic, unscrupulous, unprofessional, turbulent, and unsettled. In medieval times their “Natural Magick” in all diverse forms, including perpetual motion and alchemy, paved the way for the development of science at great lengths. Volume also deals with patent history of perpetual motion and describes various patents filed during 17, 18 and 19th century.
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