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Historical Futility - Perpetual Motion

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Sun, 2008-09-28 16:24 - Topics:

Popular histories too often present perpetual motion machines as "freaks and curiosities" of engineering without telling us just how they were understood at the time. They also fail to inform us that even in the earliest history of science and engineering, many persons were able to see the futility and folly of attempts to achieve perpetual motion.

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Real life Da Vinci Code Mystery - close to being solved!

Fri, 2007-02-09 13:22 - Topics:

After thirty years, a real life Robert Langdon (Maurizio Seracini) claims he is close to discovering an old Leonardo painting behind a 500 year old wall in Florence, Italy...

A Real-Life Mystery: The Hunt for the Lost Leonardo

Fri, 2007-02-09 04:20 - Topics:

What happened to “The Battle of Anghiari,” a grimacing crunch of men and horses considered by some experts to be Leonardo’s greatest painting? It's possible that the painting has been found, read this crazy story!

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