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Puzzles old and new (1893)

Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919 · London : Frederick Warne · leaf 25

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up and down the inclined plane.* To an unpractised hand the feat seems almost impossible ;but we have seen an expert work the ball to the top anddown again with the greatest apparent ease. No. II.—The Planet Puzzle. This very pretty puzzle also emanated from the Pick-Me-Up Office. It is a shallow… … Fig. 2. presenting the orbits of various heavenly bodies, with thesun as centre. At a given point in each such orbit is aminute depression, marked with the name and a pictorialrepresentation of the corresponding planet, the list com- * There is a miniature form of the Pick-Me-Up Puzzle made…

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