The magician's own book, or The whole art of conjuring (1862)
Arnold, George, 1834-1865, Cahill, Frank · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 185
iod, will exhibit not a fiery point,but a fiery circle in the air. THE BIRD IN THE CAGE. Cut a piece of cardboard of the size of a penny piece, andpaint on one side a bird, and on the other a cage : fastentwo pieces of thread, one on each side, at opposite points ofthe card, so that the card can be… … card, and a cricketer upon the other, which will exhibit thesame phenomenon, arising from the same principle. CONSTRUCTION OF THE PHANTASMASCOPE. The above-named figure is a Thaumatrope, as much as theone we are about to describe, although the term Phantasma-scope is generally applied to the latter…
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