Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
Heat, the cause of many wonders--Its universal diffusion and application--Story of a burning-glass--The Augustine friars and the Jesuits--Impostures as to the endurance of heat--Burning mirrors--The blow-pipe--The Giants’ Causeway--Application of currents of heated air--Travel...
The word chemistry is, probably, derived from a Coptic root, signifying obscure or secret; and the German word _geheim_ is traced to the same origin. The objects of this departm...
21. CHAPTER X.Claims of the church of Rome to miraculous power--The Franciscans and Dominicans--Tale of bishop Remi--The effect of relics--Friars’ pretended dispossession of evil spirits--Tra...
15. CHAPTER IV.In proceeding to illustrate the operation of natural laws, we may look now at some of the phenomena connected with the globe we inhabit, of which, where little knowledge is poss...
17. CHAPTER VI.The cause of those sensations which we refer to the eyes, or that which produces the sense of seeing, is light. The phenomena of vision have always been regarded as among the mo...
13. CHAPTER II.Wonder-workers have often appeared. Some of them have lately repeated their most remarkable feats in London and various places in England, varied by others of inferior interest....
20. CHAPTER IX.In the auto-biographical memoirs of sir John Barrow, lately published, he says, when describing some of the employments of his youth: “I had fallen in with an account of Benjami...
18. CHAPTER VII.Heat, the cause of many wonders--Its universal diffusion and application--Story of a burning-glass--The Augustine friars and the Jesuits--Impostures as to the endurance of heat-...
22. CHAPTER XI.Real Miracles--A miracle defined by archbishop Tillotson--The miracles of Moses--The miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ--The miracles of the apostles--Collision with those who pr...
14. CHAPTER III.The light of modern science has revealed to us many important secrets. In the dark ages there were but few books; it was then the fashion to write them in Latin; and as, from th...
19. CHAPTER VIII.A magician of former days had a figure of a swan, which floated on a vessel of water, round the rim of which were placed the twenty-four letters of the alphabet. Addressing the...
12. CHAPTER I.The magi formed one of the six tribes into which the nation of the Medes was divided in ancient times. To them was entrusted the special charge of religion; and, as priests, the...
11. CHAPTER XI.Real miracles--A miracle defined by archbishop Tillotson--The miracles of Moses--The miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ--The miracles of the apostles--Collision with those who pr...
10. CHAPTER X.Claims of the church of Rome to miraculous power--The Franciscans and Dominicans--Tale of bishop Remi--The effect of relics--Friars’ pretended dispossession of evil spirits--Tra...
7. CHAPTER VII.Heat, the cause of many wonders--Its universal diffusion and application--Story of a burning-glass--The Augustine friars and the Jesuits--Impostures as to the endurance of heat-...
5. CHAPTER V.6. CHAPTER VI.8. CHAPTER VIII.4. CHAPTER IV.9. CHAPTER IX.2. CHAPTER II.1. CHAPTER I.3. CHAPTER III.