Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena (1855)
Philadelphia : American Sunday-school Union · leaf 93
ins the cause of many moststriking illusions. Magic pictures have been produced, which,when seen in a certain point through a glass,exhibit an object different from that be held bythe naked eye. Niceron tells us that he ex-ecuted at Paris, and deposited in the library ofthe Minimes of the Place… … Tlie writer has often seen a singular trans-formation effected by an ingenious device, calledthe optical paradox: thus an eagle may hechanged into a lion, and a dog into a cat. For this purpose,a wooden three-sided box mustbe prepared, andthrough the openpart may slide thevarious drawingsto be…
Magic
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