Ye Magick Mirrour of Old JapanThompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips)
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Ye Magick Mirrour of Old Japan
Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips)
Magic mirrors -- Japan
PRINSEP, JAMES. On the Magic Mirror of Japan. _Journal of the Asiatic
Society of Bengal_, vol. i., p. 242, 1832 (1 plate).
ARAGO, F. [Showed at meeting of _Académie des Sciences_ (Paris), a
mirror brought from China by M. Arosa]. _Comptes Rendus_, xix., p.
234, 1844. [Bertin, see 31 below, says that this mirror was brought
by Admiral Mouchez from Nankin; not by M. Arosa.]
JULIEN, STANISLAS. Notice sur les miroirs magiques des Chinois et
leur fabrication. _Comptes Rendus_, xxiv., p. 999, June 7, 1847.
[This is a translation of a Chinese writer, Ou-tseu-hing (1260-1340),
who wrote on this subject in a Chinese Encyclopædia. Also showed
mirror belonging to La Grange.]
SÉGUIER. [A note following the preceding.] _Comptes Rendus_, xxiv.,
p. 1001, June 7, 1847.
PERSON. Observations faites sur un des miroirs chinois dits miroirs
magiques. _Comptes Rendus_, xxiv., p. 1110, June 21, 1847.
MAILLARD. Note sur la fabrication des miroirs magiques chinois.
_Comptes Rendus_, xxxix., pp. 178-180, 1853. [See also _Journal
Franklin Institution_, lvi., 281, 409, 1853.]
GOVI, G. Gli specchi magici dei Cinesi. _Notizia storica della R.
Accademia delle Scienze di Torino_, 1864-65, pp. 67-74.
GOVI, G. Chinese Magic Mirrors [a translation of the Italian memoir
of Nov. 20, 1864]. _The Scientific Review and Journal_ (London), vol.
i., April 1, 1865, p. 19.
GOVI, G. Nuove esperienze sugli specchi magici dei Cinesi. _Torino
Atti Accad. Sci._, ii., 1866-67, pp. 357-362 (1 plate). See also
_Torino Lavori Sci. Fis. Mat._, 1869, pp. 67-75.
BREWSTER, SIR D. Observation on the preceding paper [on Chinese Magic
Mirrors]. _The Scientific Review and Journal_, vol. i., April 1,
1865, p. 20.
PARNELL, J. Chinese Mirrors, _The Reader_, vol. vii., p. 233, March
3, 1866.
PEPPER, J. H. Cyclopædic Science Simplified (London, 1869, F. Warne
and Co.). A passage on Magic Mirrors on pp. 35-39, with 5 figures
[some copied from Prinsep].
JULIEN, STANISLAS, and CHAMPION, PAUL. Les industries anciennes
et modernes de l’empire Chinois (Paris, 1869), containing a short
article on Les miroirs magiques des Chinois, et leur fabrication.
(Quotation from the memoir of M. Julien of 1847, _supra_.)
SATOW, ERNEST. The Shiñ-tau Temples of Isé. _Transactions of the
Asiatic Society of Japan_, vol. i., 1874. Reprinted 1882, p. 101.
Gives, p. 114-119, an account of the myth of the sun-goddess, and of
the making of the first mirror. Also speaks of the use of mirrors in
the Shiñ-tau religion.
GEERTS, DR. Useful Metals and Metallurgy of the Japanese.
_Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan_, vol. iv., 1875-76, p.
39. [An article on the Japanese uses of Mercury. Appendix, p. 39-41,
on Mirrors.]
ATKINSON, R. W. (Professor of the Tokio Dai Gaku, or Imperial
University). Letter in _Nature_, May 24, 1877, vol. xvi., p. 62.
HIGHLEY, SAMUEL. Letter in _Nature_, June 14, 1877, vol. xvi., p. 132.
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