предсказатели
08:37 | 24-06-2010 | Lifeform, Literature, Science | No Comments
Роберт Бойль тоже, оказывается, Нострадамус, — пишет “The Washington Post”:
In the 1660s, English chemist Robert Boyle wrote an extraordinary document, a combination of wish list and predictions of what science might achieve in the coming centuries.
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Samples from Boyle’s list:
- The Prolongation of Life.
- The Recovery of Youth, or at least some of the Marks of it, as new Teeth, new Hair colour’d as in youth.
- The Art of Flying.
- The Art of Continuing long under water, and exercising functions freely there.
- The Cure of Wounds at a Distance.
- The Cure of Diseases at a distance or at least by Transplantation.
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но мы-то знаем, в чем дело.
via.