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  • If you really wanted to study the kinetic theory of gases, why did you reconstruct so painstakingly the eolopile--a little spouted sphere that, when heated, spins, spewing steam . . .

    --Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 14

    September 29, 2008