Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Ye Magick Mirrour of Old Japan

Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips), 1851-1916· 2 chapters· 7,098 words

BREWSTER, SIR DAVID. Account of a curious Chinese Mirror, etc. _Philosophical Magazine_, vol. i., p. 438, 1832. See also _Poggendorff’s Annalen_, xxvii., pp. 485-489, 1833. [Translation of the preceding], and _Journal Franklin Institution_, vol. xv., p. 128, 1832.

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1. PART I. REAL MAGIC MIRRORS.

BREWSTER, SIR DAVID. Account of a curious Chinese Mirror, etc. _Philosophical Magazine_, vol. i., p. 438, 1832. See also _Poggendorff’s Annalen_, xxvii., pp. 485-489, 1833. [Tra...

2. PART II. ALLEGED REFERENCES TO MAGIC MIRRORS.

(_i._) THE MIRROR OF PYTHAGORAS. The passage in question is in the _Physica Curiosa_ of Gaspard Schottus (4to Edition, Herbipolis, 1667), p. 538, referring to his own book on ma...