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Introduction on superstition and magic; the eye and optical illusion; mirrors, the magic lantern and phantasmagoria; miscellaneous optical illusions; marvellous ...
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#29788 Book / Science
Translation from the French of La Science Amusante by Tom Tit, with some new experiments. Sections on practical geometry; weight ...
#45225 Book / Science
Translated from the French, and 'illustrated with seventy engravings on wood, and a coloured frontispiece.' Frontispiece missing in this copy. ...
#29831 Book / Science
#39177 Book / Science
Book aimed at teaching general reader science through experiments rather than theory has sections on electricity; heat; light (including the ...
#39207 Book / Science
Chapters on experiments with light (including the magic lantern); optical illusions; moving pictures (including thaumatrope, phenakistoscope, zoetrope, praxinoscope, kaleidoscope); experiments ...
#45224 Book / Science
Everyday scientific experiments for a lay audience. Experiments on electricity; heat; light (including shadows and refraction, silhouettes, illusions like the ...
#45300 Book / Science
'Translated from the French of Gaston Tissandier'. 'Half hours of scientific amusement.' Experiments for the 'unskilled person'' using everyday materials. ...
#42492 Book / Science
Children's book offers explanations and experiments on light, using shadow play; making a pinhole camera; a periscope; kaleidoscope; bending light; ...
#16182 Book / Science
Second volume of a two-volume set. Essays on a variety of scientific topics aimed at the lay reader. Subjects cover ...
#39195 Book / Science
Translated and enlarged from "Les Recreations Scientifiques" of Gaston Tissandier". A large collection of scientific amusements (avoiding magic tricks), including ...
#42637 Book / Science
'Translated and enlarged from "Les Recreations Scientifiques" of Gaston Tissandier". A large collection of scientific amusements (avoiding magic tricks), including ...
#16128 Book / Science
Children's book has chapters on how we see; candlepower and the fading of light; light waves; the speed of light; ...
#45298 Book / Science
Appears to be a series of lectures in a religious context. Chapters deal with the nature of light (including persistence ...
#42691 Book / Science
Translation from the German of Kolumbus-Eier, based on a larger German collection with the same title, first issued by the ...
#42488 Book / Science
Work originally composed by Jacques Ozanam before 1717; 'enlarged and improved' by Jean Etienne Montucla between 1763 and 1799 and ...
#29850 Book / Science
Title continues: 'With a series of easy, entertaining, and interesting mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments; including the most celebrated card ...
#20911 Book / Science
Aimed at the general reader, book contains chapters on light and matter; mirrors; refraction; lenses; the microscope; the telescope; the ...
#45327 Book / Science
Tracts in Volume 9 entitled Life of Henry IV, King of France; A Story of the Factories, by Camilla Toulmin; ...
#42680 Book / Science