Part III, Chapter 5
Famous satire of pseudo-science and useless research; the cucumber-sunbeam project is iconic.
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From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver tours absurd scientific projects: extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, softening marble for pillows, building houses from the roof down—Swift's parody of Royal Society experiments.
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