
Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
by Brewster, David
Occult PhilosophyHermeticismModern
Scientific recreations
Chapters
16
Total Words
99,434
Reading Time
398 min
Published
1811
scientific-recreations
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1.Preface
141 min2.M. Haue was desirous of making further experiments, but the figure
26 min3.M. Haue and the landlord saw it together, each observer will see his
19 min4.M. St. Gille, a grocer of St. Germain-en-Laye, whose performances have
38 min5.M. Kratzenstein, who showed that all the vowels could be distinctly
1 min6.M. Kempelen of Vienna, a celebrated mechanician, was occupied with the
3 min7.M. Kratzenstein seems to have been equally unsuccessful; for though he
35 min8.M. Seetzen, the first European traveller who visited this extraordinary
2 min9.M. Seetzen throws out some conjectures respecting the cause of
36 min10.D. Back door of ditto.
1 min11.I. Screen behind the machinery.
1 min12.L. A box which serves to conceal an opening in the floor of the large
1 min13.M. A similar box to receive the toes of the player in the first
2 min14.M. Maillardet has executed an automaton which both writes and draws.
3 min15.M. Maillardet has constructed various other automata, representing
70 min16.D. BREWSTER.
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