For to Goethe nature is far from being a piece of mechanism which can be calculated on and summed up in mathematical formulae, an everlasting "perpetuum mobile," a magnificent all-powerful machine.
Let us however leave aside the idea of a perpetuum mobile, and dwell rather on the comparison with a machine.
We have already compared the world to a mighty clock, or a machine which, as a whole, represents what can never be found in one of its parts, a perpetuum mobile.
To conclude this Lecture we shall offer a few remarks on Perpetuum Mobile, or the search for a means of obtaining a mechanical perpetual motion.
Mr. Dircks, in his "Perpetuum Mobile," has given accounts of quite a number of these impostures.
A Water Screw," the purpose of which is not quite so obvious as to be understood at the first view of the figure; for the inventor intimates that he intends it for a perpetuum mobile.
The author remarks concerning this machine as follows: [Illustration] This machine also is intended for a perpetuum mobile.
We have found in a "Magia Divina" the following directions for accomplishing a perpetuum mobile naturae, the efficacy of which we leave for the reader to decide.
You men of the nineteenth century know only by reputation of our attempts to produce an homunculus, and a perpetuum mobile naturae.
That is, moreover, equal to saying that the universe itself is a perpetuum mobile.
The law of the persistence of force proves also that the idea of a perpetuum mobile is just as applicable to, and as significant for, the cosmos as a whole as it is impossible for the isolated action of any part of it.
Every attempt to make such a perpetuum mobile must necessarily fail; the discovery of the law of substance showed, in addition, the theoretical impossibility of it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perpetuum mobile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
