The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.

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Singular Galvanic Shock, 135

The Flash of Light, 135

The Magical Cup, 135

The Prisoner Leech, 136

The Metamorphosed Knife, 136

With Plates in Water, 136

To Make a Magnet by Galvanism, 137

Effects of Galvanism on a Magnet, 137

Change of Color by Galvanism, 137

The Galvanic Shock, 138

A Galvanic Tongue, 138

Influence of Galvanism on Porter and Ale, 188

The Galvanized Flounder, 188

Experiments in Magnetism.

The Impromptu Magnet, 139

The Merry Iron Filings, 140

Test of Magnetic Power, 140

To Make Artificial Magnets, 140

How to Magnetize a Poker, 140

To Show Magnetic Attraction and Repulsion, 141

Variation of the Needle, 141

Dip of the Needle, 141

To Suspend a Needle in the Air, by Magnetism, 141

Magnetism by Hammering, 142

Power of the Electro-Magnet, 142

The Mariner's Compass, 142

To Make Artificial Magnets without the Aid of either Natural Loadstone, or Artificial Magnets, 143

The Watch Magnetized, 144

North and South Poles of the Magnet, 144

Polarity of the Magnet, 144

Magnetic Action and Reaction, 145

To Pass Magnetism through a Table, 145

The Magnetic Table, 145

Interesting Particulars Concerning the Magnet, 145

Exaggerated Magnetism, 146

The Magic of Pneumatics and Aerostatics.

Weight of the Air Proved by a Pair of Bellows, 148

The Pressure of Air Shown by a Wine Glass, 148

The Pressure of Air Shown by a Glass Jar, 148

Elasticity of the Air, 149

The Air Pump, 149

To Prove that Air has Weight, 150

To Prove Air Elastic, 150

Air in the Egg, 150

The Descending Smoke, 151

Half Eagle and Feather, 151

The Soundless Bell, 152

The Floating Fish, 152

The Mysterious Circles, 152

The Diving Bell, 154

The Air Balloon, 154

How to Make an Air Balloon, 155

How to Fill a Balloon, 156

To Make Fire Balloons, 156

The Mysterious Bottle, 157

How to Make a Parachute, 157

Caoutchouc Balloons, 157

The Bacchus Experiment, 362

The Magic of Optics.

Light as an Effect, 159

Refraction, 159

The Invisible Coin Made Visible, 159

The Multiplying Glass, 160

Transparent Bodies, 160

The Prism, 160

To Make a Prism, 161

Composition of Light, 161

A Natural Camera Obscura, 162

Bullock's Eyes Experiment, 162

The Camera Obscura, 162

The Magic Lantern, 163

The Camera Lucida, 164

Painting the Slides, 164

To Exhibit the Magic Lantern, 164

Effects of the Magic Lantern, 165

Tempest at Sea, 165

The Phantasmagoria, 166

Dissolving Views, 167

How to Raise a Ghost, 167

The Thaumatrope, 168

The Bird in the Cage, 168

Construction of the Phantasmascope, 168

Curious Optical Illusion, 169

Another, 170

Another, 170

The Picture in the Air, 171

Breathing Light and Darkness, 171

To Show what Rays of Light do not Obstruct each other, 172

To See through a Philadelphia Brick, 172

The Stereoscope, 173

Ocular Spectra, 175

Brilliant Water Mirror, 175

Optics of a Soap Bubble, 176

The Kaleidoscope, 176

Simple Solar Microscope, 177

Anamorphoses, 178

The Cosmorama, 180

Distorted Landscapes, 180

The Magic Coin, 181

The Magician's Mirror, 344

The Perspective Mirror, 345

The Artificial Landscape, 348

The Boundless Prospect, 350

The Enchanted Palace, 352

Tricks in Mechanics.

Importance of Mechanics, 182

The Laws of Motion, 182

Experiment of the Law of Motion, 182

Balancing, 183

The Prancing Horse, 183

To Construct a Figure, which, being Placed on a Curved Surface, and Inclined in any Position, shall, when left to itself, Return to its Former Position, 183

To Make a Carriage Run in an Inverted Position, without Falling, 183

To Cause a Cylinder to Roll of its own Weight, up Hill, 184

The Balanced Stick, 184

The Chinese Mandarin, 184

To Make a Quarter Dollar Turn on its Edge on the Point of a Needle, 184

The Self-Balanced Pail, 185

To Lift a Bottle with a Straw, 185

The Dancing Pea, 186

The Toper's Tripod, 186

The Magical Snake, or the Obliquity of Motion, 187

The Bridge of Knives, 187

Sand in the Hour Glass, 188

Resistance of Sand, 188

The Magical Gyroscope, 346

Tricks in Hydraulics and Hydrostatics.

The Science of Hydraulics, 189

The Fountain and Pump, 189

The Hydraulic Dancer, 190

The Syphon, 191

The Water Snail, or Archimedean Screw, 191

The Bottle Ejectment, 192

The Magic of Hydrostatics with the Ancients, 192

To Empty a Glass under Water, 192

The Mysterious Bottle, 157

Boiling upon Cold Water, 114

Currents in Boiling Water, 114

Hot Water Lighter than Cold, 115

Expansion of Water by Cold, 115

The Magic Whirlpool, 116

The Cup of Tantalus, 115

To Weigh Water without Scales, 353

More than Full, 361

Tricks in Acoustics.

The Science of Acoustics, 193

Difference between Sound and Noise, 193

Visible Vibration, 193

Transmitted Vibration, 194

Double Vibration, 194

Champagne and Sound, 194

Music of the Snail, 195

The Tuning Fork a Flute Player, 195

Musical Bottles, 195

Theory of Whispering, 195

Theory of the Voice, 196

To Tune a Guitar without the Assistance of the Ear, 196

Progress of Sound, 196

To Make an Æolian Harp, 196

The Invisible Girl, 197

Magic of Acoustics with the Ancients, 198

The Secret of Ventriloquism, 81

To Show how Sound Travels through a Solid, 198

To Show that Sound depends upon Vibration, 198

Musical Figures Resulting from Sound, 357

The Magic of Numbers, or Curious Tricks in Arithmetic.

Aphorisms of Number, 199

Palpable Arithmetic, 200

The Abacus, 201

Napier's Rods, 202

The Arithmetical Boomerang, 203

To Find a Number Thought of, 203

Second Method, 204

Third Method, 205

Fourth do., 205

Fifth do., 206

Sixth do., 206

To Discover two or more Numbers that a Person has Thought of, 206

How many Counters have I in my Hands? 207

The Mysterious Halvings, to tell a Number a Person has Thought of, 208

Second Method, 209

Who Wears the Ring? 211

What is Probable? 212

Variations, 213

Amusing Combinations, 214

The Visitors to the Crystal Palace, 217

How many Changes can be Given to Seven Notes of a Piano? 217

The Arithmetical Triangle, 217

How many Different Deals can be made with Thirteen Cards out of Fifty-two, 218

The Three Graces, 218

Second Method, 219

Third Method, 220

The Fortunate Ninth, 221

The Ten Ten's, 222

Dividing the Beer, 223

The Difficult Case of Wine, 224

Decimation of Fruit, 224

The Wine and the Tables, 225

The Three Travelers, 225

What Counter has been Thought of out of Sixteen, 226

Magic Squares, 227

Odd Magic Squares, 227

The Square of Gotham, 229

The Mathematical Blacksmith, 230

Curious Properties of some Figures, 230

The Industrious Frog, 234

The Council of Ten, 235

The Two Travelers, 235

Arithmetical Trick, 237

The Money Trick, 237

The Philosopher's Pupils, 237

To Discover a Square Number, 238

The Sheep, and the Sheep Fold, 238

The Countrywoman and the Eggs, 238

To Rub out Twenty Chalks at Five Times, Rubbing out every Time an Odd one, 239

The Impossible Triangle, 239

Odd or Even, 239

The Figures, up to 100, arranged as to make 505 in each Column, when Counted in Ten Columns Perpendicularly, and the Same when Counted in Ten Files Horizontally, 240

The Old Woman and Her Eggs, 240

The Mathematical Fortune Teller, 241

The Dice Guessed Unseen, 242

The Sovereign and the Sage, 242

The Knowing Shepherd, 243

The Certain Game, 243

The Astonished Farmer, 244

The Magical Century, 244

The Hatter Cheated, 245

The Basket of Nuts, 245

The United Digits, 246

December and May, 246

The Two Drovers, 246

The Basket and Stones, 246

The Famous Forty-Five, 247

Trick in Subtraction, 247

The Expunged Figure, 247

The Mysterious Addition, 248

To tell at what Hour a Person Intends to rise, 249

To find the Difference between Two Numbers, the Greater of which is Unknown, 249

The Magic Remainder, 250

A Person having an equal Number of Counters, or Pieces of Money, in each Hand, to find how many he has altogether, 250

The Three Jealous Husbands, 251

The False Scales, 251

The Apple Woman, 252

The Graces and Muses, 252

The Jesuitical Teacher, 252

Nine Quaint Questions, 253

The Fox, Goose and Corn, 253

Multiplying Money by Money, 253

The Unfair Division, 255

A Popular Fallacy, 255

Curious Tricks in Geometry.

The Inventor of Geometry, 256

Geometrical Definitions, 256

The Five Geometrical Solids, 257

How to Make Five Squares into a large one without any Waste of Stuff, 258

Deceptive Vision, 258

The Carpenter Puzzled, 259

The Bricklayer Puzzled, 260

Triangular Problem, 260

To Form a Square, 261

Squaring the Circle, 262

The Perplexed Cabinet Maker, 277

Curious and Amusing Puzzles.

Alexander the Great's Puzzle, 266

The Chinese Cross, 266

The Parallelogram, 267

The Divided Garden, 267

The Endless String, 267

Chinese Maze, the Willow Pattern Plate, 268

The Vertical Line Puzzle, 268

The Three Rabbits, 269

The Accommodating Square, 269

The Circle Puzzle, 269

The Cardboard Puzzle, 269

The Button Puzzle, 269

The Quarto Puzzle, 269

The Puzzle of Fourteen, 270

The Square and Circle Puzzle, 270

The Scale and Ring Puzzle, 270

The Heart Puzzle, 271

The Cross Puzzle, 272

The Yankee Square, 272

The Card Puzzle, 272

The Three Square Puzzle, 273

The Cylinder Puzzle, 273

The Four Tenants, 273

The Puzzle Wall, 274

The Twenty-Four Nuns, 274

The Horse Shoe Puzzle, 274

The Card Square, 275

The Dog Puzzle, 275

Puzzle of the Two Fathers, 275

The Triangular Puzzle, 276

Cutting out a Cross, 276

Another Cross Puzzle, 276

The Fountain Puzzle, 276

The Puzzle of the Stars, 277

The Counter Puzzle, 277

Japan Square Puzzle, 277

The Cabinet Maker's Puzzle, 277

String and Balls Puzzle, 277

Double Headed Puzzle, 278

Arithmetical Puzzle, 278

Grammatical Puzzle, 278

The Tree Puzzle, 279

Puzzling Epitaph, 279

Curious Letter, 279

A Puzzling Inscription, 279

Puzzling Kings, 279

The Knight's Puzzle, 283

Another Method, 284

Another Method, 287

Rosamond's Bower, 287

The Labyrinth, 288

The Chinese Puzzle, 289

Trouble-Wit, 290

Answers to Puzzles.

The Chinese Cross, 291

The Parallelogram, 291

The Divided Garden, 292

The Endless String, 292

Chinese Maze, 292

The Vertical Line Puzzle, 293

The Three Rabbits, 293

The Accommodating Square, 293

The Circle Puzzle, 293

The Cut Card Puzzle, 294

The Button Puzzle, 294

The Quarto Puzzle, 294

The Puzzle of Fourteen, 294

The Square and Circle Puzzle, 295

The Scale and Ring Puzzle, 295

The Heart Puzzle, 295

The Cross Puzzle, 295

The Yankee Square, 295

The Card Puzzle, 296

The Three Square Puzzle, 296

The Cylinder Puzzle, 296

The Four Tenants, 296

The Puzzle Wall, 297

The Twenty-Four Nuns, 297

The Horse Shoe Puzzle, 297

The Card Square, 297

The Dog Puzzle, 298

The Two Fathers, 298

The Triangular Puzzle, 298

Cutting out a Cross, 299