Роберт Бойль 350 лет назад написал «список желаний», и многие его мечты человечество воплотило в жизнь. В
прошлый раз мы рассмотрели первые шесть пунктов — вторую молодость, трансплантацию органов, телемедицину, искусство полета. Сегодня поговорим о нашем росте, томато-картофеле и зеркалах для телескопов.
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350-летию Королевского научного сообщества
Содержание списка желаний на языке оригинала 1662 года1) The Prolongation of Life
2) The Recovery of Youth, or at least some of the Marks of It, as New Teeth, New Hair Colour’d as in Youth
3) The Art of Flying
4) The Art of Continuing Long under water and the Exercise of Functioning Freely There
5) The Cure of Wounds at a Distance
6) The Cure of Diseases at a Distance or at least by Transplantation
7) The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions
8) The Emulating of Fish without Engines by Custome and Education only
9) The Acceleration of the Production of Things out of Seed
10) The Transmutation of Metalls
11) The Making of Glass Malleable
12) The Transmutation of Species in Mineralls, Animals and Vegetables
13) The Liquid Alkaest and Other dissolving Menstruums
14) The making of Parabolicall and Hyperbolicall Glasses
15) The Making Armor Light and Extremely Hard
16) The Practicable and Certain Way of Finding Longitudes
17) The Use of Pendulums at Sea and in Journeys, and the Application of it to Watches
18) Potent Druggs to alter or Exalt Imagination, Waking, Memory, and other functions, and appease pain, procure innocent sleep, harmless dreams, etc
19) A Ship to Sail with All Winds and a Ship Not to be Sunk
20) Freedom from necessity for much sleeping exemplify’d by the Operations of Tea and What Happens in Mad-Men
21) Pleasing Dreams and Physicall Exercises by the Egyptian Electuary and by the Fungus mentioned by the French author
22) Great Strength and Agility of Body Exemplify’d by That of Frantick Epileptick and Hystericall Persons
23) Varnishes Perfumable by Rubbing
24) A Perpetuall Light
