Scientific Studies, or Practical, in Contrast With Chimerical Pursuits Exemplified in Two Popular Lectures, I The Life of Edward Somerset, Second of Science Astrology, Alchemy, Squaring t

Excerpt from Scientific Studies, or Practical, in Contrast With Chimerical Pursuits: Exemplified in Two Popular Lectures, I. The Life of Edward Somerset, Second Marquis of Worcester, Inventor of the Steam Engine, II. Chimeras of Science; Astrology, Alchemy, Squaring the Circle, Perpetuum Mobile, Etc

Whatever a man's intellectual pursuits may be, he has the advantage over the mere man of fashion of being engaged in employments which the longest life cannot exhaust.

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