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The old and the new magic (1906)

Evans, Henry Ridgely, b. 1861 · Chicago : The Open court Pub. Co.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 205

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de Physique ever witnessed PAS DE CARACTERE BY La Fille des FleursThe Inexhaustible Hat Digitized by Microsoft® l54 THE OLD AND THE NEW MAGIC the Boulevard du Temple. Porcelain medallions ornamentedthe walls, representing Archimides, Galileo, Palissy, Vaucanson,Franklin, Volta, Newton, Daguerre,… … Henri Robin. Robertson the creator of optical illusions; and Cagliostro a pre-tender to sorcery, who made use of hypnotism and phantasma-goria in his seances. But science has its wizards, in one senseof the word, and so Robin included the great pioneers of scien-tific research among his galaxy of…

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