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Robert Boyle's 17th century wishlist for future scientific breakthroughs
Saturday January 13, 2018. 07:42 PM , from BoingBoing
In 2010, The Royal Society featured the 'Desiderata' (previously) of Robert 'Boyle's Law' Boyle, a list of dozens of scientific discoverie and breakthroughs that Boyle hoped would be discovered by scientists.
* The Prolongation of Life.* The Recovery of Youth, or at least some of the Marks of it, as new Teeth, new Hair colour’d as in youth.* The Art of Flying.* The Art of Continuing long under water, and exercising functions freely there.* The Cure of Wounds at a Distance.* The Cure of Diseases at a distance or at least by Transplantation.* The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions.* The Emulating of Fish without Engines by Custome and Education only.* The Acceleration of the Production of things out of Seed.* The Transmutation of Metalls.* The makeing of Glass Malleable.* The Transmutation of Species in Mineralls, Animals, and Vegetables.* The Liquid Alkaest and Other dissolving Menstruums.* The making of Parabolicall and Hyperbolicall Glasses.* The making Armor light and extremely hard.* The practicable and certain way of finding Longitudes.* The use of Pendulums at Sea and in Journeys, and the Application of it to watches.* Potent Druggs to alter or Exalt Imagination, Waking, Memory, and other functions, and appease pain, procure innocent sleep, harmless dreams, etc.* A Ship to saile with All Winds, and A Ship not to be Sunk.* Freedom from Necessity of much Sleeping exemplify’d by the Operations of Tea and what happens in Mad-Men.* Pleasing Dreams and physicall Exercises exemplify’d by the Egyptian Electuary and by the Fungus mentioned by the French Author.* Great Strength and Agility of Body exemplify’d by that of Frantick Epileptick and Hystericall persons.* A perpetuall Light.* Varnishes perfumable by Rubbing. What scientists want: Robert Boyle’s to-do list [The Repository/Royal Society Archives] (via Beyond the Beyond)
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