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

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