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Scientific amusements (1890)

Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 580

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Frog lying in wait for a fly. may follow with his eyes the tracing of the line. Whenthe line has reached a length of two feet the cock hasbecome cataleptic. He is absolutely motionless, his eyesare fixed, and he will remain from thirty to sixty secondsin the same posture in which he had at first… … iS OPEN-AIR SCIENCE. the position shown. This experiment, which we havesuccessfully performed on different animals, can also beaccomplished by drawing a straight line with a piece ofchalk on a slate. M. Azam declares that the same resultis also produced by drawing a black line on a table ofwhite…

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