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Villard de Honnecourt (a 13th-century French artist) drew this sketch of an unbalanced wheel. Other versions were tested on YouTube, but still none is used for the benefit of Mankind.)
[130] The debate on Perpetual Motion, that seems to have been perpetually debated, and to this day, first appeared in writing in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, by Denis Papin (1647-1712) in 1685.
The quest for a machine that will operate forever echoes the humans' longing for eternal life.
Would you want eternal life? Why?!
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