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Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena (1855)

Religious Tract Society (Great Britain), McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union ; London : Religious Tract Society · leaf 91

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ains the cause of many moststriking illusions. Magic pictures have been produced, which,when seen in a certain point through a dass,exhibit an object different from that be held bythe naked eye. Niceron tells us that he ex-ecut^d at Pans, and deposited in the library ofthe Minimes of the Place… … The writer has often seen a singular trans-formation effected by an ingenious device, calledthe optical paradox: thus an eagle may bechanged 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 used,…

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