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mollusque commented on the word eolopile
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