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The seven follies of science; to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, marvels, and popular fallacies. A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. With numerous illustrations (1912)

Phin, John, 1830-1913 · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 169

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long and an inch or so in diameter, or roll up a strip of anykind of stiff paper so as to form a tube. Holding this tube 156 APPARENTLY SEEN THROUGH THE HAND IS7 in the left hand, look through it with the left eye, the righteye also being kept open. Then bring the right hand intothe position shown…

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