The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 184
complete the case as far as the lower part is con-cerned ; and, if required, the top may be covered with a flatplate of glass, which would actually complete an efficient ferncase ; but as we wish to render it as ornamental as possible, itwill be necessary to make a raised, or, as it is… … it HIS article begins with the de-scription of a curiorfs toyknown as the Thavmatropc.It was invented by Dr. JohnAyrton Paris, an eminent phy-sician, author of Philosophyin Sport Made Science inEarnest. The name Thau-matrope is derived from twoGreek words, one of whichmeans wonder and the otherto…
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