The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 53
illu-sions have been verycommunicative as to de-tails that have oozedout and become com-mon property, but haveproved very reticent on things not generallyknown, and a with-holding of the truthhas been consideredsound policy. Kirchers slides con-sisted of rude figuresof spectres, skeletons,etc.,… … Fig. 3. another representation he givesof his lantern, does he in any wayindicate the existence of thisessential part of the apparatus.A mere concentrated beam of lightpassing through a painting onglass would give but a misty,shadowy image, such as a stainedglass window would cast upon awall when…
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