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  <dc:title>Manuscript, 'Remarks on some attempts made towards a perpetual motion' by Dr [John Theophilus] Desaguliers</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Desaguliers seeks to prove that the perpetual motion wheel at Hesse-Cassel [a state in the Holy Roman Empire] invented by Mr Orfireus [Johann Bessler] is not a self-moving engine.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Remarks on some attempts made towards a perpetual motion'

Read to the Royal Society on 9 November 1721</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1721]</dc:date>
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