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Something from Nothing

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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Aristotle's Theology of Creation

Kercher believed he had built a perpetual motion machine. Jean baptiste von helment introduced the term gas to science, discovered carbon dioxide and performed a five year long experiment with a willow tree. In 16 75, athanasius kircher himself had published arca noah, in which he offered a detailed accounting of how noah's ark could have been packed including all animals except those that generated spontaneously.

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