Magic tricks -- Juvenile literature; Scientific recreations -- Juvenile literature
Two Bitters make a Sweet 14
Visible and Invisible 14
Sight and Sound.
Artificial Mirage 17
Motion of the Eye 18
Single Vision with two Eyes 19
Two objects seen as one 19
Only one object can be seen at a time 20
Straight objects seen crooked 20
Optical Illusion 21
Pin-hole Focus 21
Optical Deceptions 22
Accuracy of Sight 22
Visual Deception 23
Handwriting upon the Wall 23
Imitative Haloes 23
To read a Coin in the dark 24
To make a Prism 24
Optical Augmentation 25
Gold Fish in a glass Globe 26
Colours produced by the unequal action of Light upon the Eyes 26
Optical Deception 27
Coloured Shadows 27
Colours of Scratches 27
Ocular Spectra 28
Beautiful Colours of Mother of Pearl 28
White Letters seen further than Black 29
Artificial Rainbow 29
Fringe about a Candle 29
The Double Coloured Reflection 30
Luminous Cross 30
Ring of Colours round a Candle 30
Simple and Cheap Opera-glass 31
Multiplying Theatres 31
Apparatus for Writing in the Dark 32
Portable Microscope 33
The Phenakistiscope or Stroboscope 34
To look at the Sun without injury 35
Brilliant Water Mirror 35
Optical Illusion under Water 35
The Magic Wheels 36
Acoustic Rainbow 37
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