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.
For six years we have no speech; but in 46 Cicero broke his rule of silence ('in perpetuum tacere,' ad Fam.
As the heavens move eternally, so the spherical loadstone must be a "perpetuum mobile".
It is not clear, at this point, whether he believed a "properly balanced" terrella would be 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.
We would especially refer the curious reader to a recent work by Mr. Dircks, entitled Perpetuum Mobile, to which we have been indebted for historical notices.
The whole repertory of piano music does not contain a study of perpetuum mobile so full of genius and fancy as this particular one is universally acknowledged to be, except perhaps Liszt's Feux Follets.
It has the perpetuum mobile quality, and older masters would have prolonged its giddy arabesques into pages of senseless spinning.
He is the dramatist of the perpetuum mobile in the modern heart, the interpreter of inexhaustible discontent in himself and others.
Recovered, he decided to construct a perpetuum mobile.
Mr. Dircks, in his "Perpetuum Mobile," has given accounts of quite a number of these impostures.
You men of the nineteenth century know only by reputation of our attempts to produce an homunculus, and a perpetuum mobile naturae.
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.
To-day, however, Proebler came neither about a new discovery nor theperpetuum mobile, but to offer himself as mediator in case Lenz was desirous of marrying.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perpetuum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
