See perpetuum mobile on Wiktionary
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"text": "Sic autem ratiocinatur: Vnus perpetuò in natura motus eſt: ergo vnum perpetuum mobile, vnumque ſempiternum mouens antecedens ibi, hic autem vnus est: conſequens ibi, ſed obſcurè & breuiter continetur vtique id quod mouet, ſi vnum est, hoc eſt, ergo quod mouet, vnum eſt, itidemque id quod mouetur.",
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"ref": "1619, Henricus Nollius, Naturæ Sanctuarium: quod eſt, Phyſica Hermetica, Francofurtum: printed by Nicolaus Hoffmannus for Jonas Rosa, book I, chapter iv, § 1, pages 106–107:",
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"ref": "1936, Karina Windfeld-Hansen, Peter den Store bind 2, e-book edition (2017), Lindhardt og Ringhof, translation of Пётр Первый by Алексей Толстой (in Russian), →ISBN, no pagination:",
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"english": "At the same time, the plant captures two volatile quantities, namely wind and light, which is produced with a constant, recurring air-pressure like a perpetuum mobile, a perpetual motion machine, driven forth by electricity.",
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"english": "The closest thing mankind has come to a perpetuum mobile, Frølich. A clock, resembling a common hearth-top clock, but something entirely different.",
"ref": "2013, Kjell Ola Dahl, Kvinden i plastic, Modtryk, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2017, Ole Thyssen, Wilhelm Reich: 1927–1939: Mellem Freud og Marx, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:",
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"english": "Up until the ending, where the bridal couple agree to be buried in one another, the book is a perpetuum mobile for the prodduction of black and grotesque ambiences.",
"ref": "2006, Søren Schou, Dansk litteraturs historie: 1920–1960, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 574:",
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"ref": "1570 May 15th, Philippus Marbachius, Theſes phyſicæ de mutationibus et motu, Argentoratum: Iosias Rihelius, thesis LX.:",
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"text": "Sic autem ratiocinatur: Vnus perpetuò in natura motus eſt: ergo vnum perpetuum mobile, vnumque ſempiternum mouens antecedens ibi, hic autem vnus est: conſequens ibi, ſed obſcurè & breuiter continetur vtique id quod mouet, ſi vnum est, hoc eſt, ergo quod mouet, vnum eſt, itidemque id quod mouetur.",
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"ref": "1619, Henricus Nollius, Naturæ Sanctuarium: quod eſt, Phyſica Hermetica, Francofurtum: printed by Nicolaus Hoffmannus for Jonas Rosa, book I, chapter iv, § 1, pages 106–107:",
"text": "Etsi de modo, quo Entia è Chao orta fuerint, in Phyſicis haud tractandum eſſe videatur, quia plane diuinus eſt, & Naturæ regulam longe ſuperat, tamen mihi non inconueniens viſum fuit, aliquid de modo eo proponere & explicare: & quia modus ille ex primo capite Geneſeos nobis patet, & quia Hermetis filii eum in productione perpetui mobilis ex diuino indultu auxilioque optime imitari didicerunt.",
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"ref": "1731, Fridericus Hoffmannus, Diſſertatio Medica de verâ perpetui mobilis in homine vivo ideâ, in Operum omnium phyſico-medicorum ſupplementum in duas partes diſtributum, pars secunda, Geneva: Fratres de Tournes, published 1749, §. viii., page 199/1:",
"text": "Cumque hoc ipſum perpetuum mobile Mechanicum noſtra ætate a quibuſdam pro ſuperato habeatur, imprimis quum ſatis notum ſit, quoſnam motus perpetuum mobile Orfyrei excitaverit, qui ſibi ejus inventionem non ſine multorum plauſibus tribuit: Hinc ſingulas Machinas unquam pro perpetuis mobilibus celebratis & venditis percurrit, perpetuum mobile nimirum Baſileenſe, cujus Autor Jeremias Mitz Baſileæ, Perpetuum Mobile per globulos in loculamentis rotitantes, Perpetuum Mobile a Scheinero circa terræ centrum effictum, horumque ſingulorum impoſſibilitatem, quod nil minus & quidvis aliud potius ſint, quam perpetua mobilia demonſtrat; tandem etiam perpetuum mobile Orfyreanum ex deſcriptione ejus propria æſtimatum impoſſibile eſſe addit, duplici ſubducta demonſtratione.",
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"ref": "1981, Mihail Grămescu, “Frumoasa muzică”, in Aporisticon: Glosar de civilizații imaginare (Seniorii Imaginației Integrala Science Fiction și Fantasy), Eagle Publishing House, published 2012, →ISBN, no pagination:",
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"ref": "2019, Ciprian Șiulea, Patrick Melrose: Nu contează • Vești rele, București: Carte Pentru Toți, translation of Patrick Melrose: Never Mind • Bad News by Edward St Aubyn (in English), →ISBN, chapter 7, no pagination:",
"text": "Eric cel Indignat (cu subînțeles): „Ah, ce tipic pentru tine, când te confrunți cu o problemă: ia și mai multă heroină. Practic, e perpetuumul mobile suprem.“",
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