Schot, K. Physica Curiosa. 2 vols. 1667.
—— Thaumaturgus Physicus sive magiæ universalis naturæ. 1659.
INDEX.
INDEX.
- Acres’ projecting device, [500].
- Acrobat, weighted, [396].
- Altar, Heron’s marvelous, [236].
- Altars, marvelous, [210], [211].
- Amphitrite, [61].
- Ancient magic, [203]-[250].
- Anvil, Siegfried’s, [330].
- Apple and ninepin, disappearance of, [130].
- Aquarium, ink converted into an, [131].
- Aquatic locomotion, [480].
- Arena, nautical, [345]-[347].
- Artist, toy, [376].
- Automata, [367]-[379].
- Automata and curious toys, [367]-[406].
- Automaton, an ancient, [241].
- Automaton, curious, [374].
- Automaton, the oldest, [206]-[208].
- Bacchus, shrine of, [204]-[208].
- Baldwins and second sight, the, [196].
- Ball, Houdin’s magic, [137].
- Ball, the mysterious, [146].
- Balsamo, see Cagliostro.
- Basket trick, the Indian, [46].
- Battle scenes, [308].
- Beugnot cited, [5].
- Bird that flies, toy, [413].
- Birds, photography of, [478].
- Black art, [64].
- Black ground, photography upon, [425].
- Blitz, Signor, [19].
- Blue-room trick, [532].
- Boiler, Heron’s tubular, [237].
- Borders, [259].
- Bottle and glass, the traveling, [129].
- Bottle magic, [229].
- Bridges, [255].
- Burlingame, H. J., cited, [6], [19].
- Bust, photographic, [448].
- Cabaret du Neant, [55].
- Cabinet, Houdin’s magic, [81].
- Cabinets, Thorn’s, [38].
- Cagliostro, [3]-[6].
- Cake baked in a hat, [117].
- Camera for ribbon photography, [509].
- Camera, pinhole, [454].
- Carlotti, [6].
- Cart, toy, [401].
- Cassadaga propaganda, [35].
- Catastrophe, photographing a, [447].
- Catcher, photo thief, [457].
- Caulk, William B., [50].
- Cellini, Benvenuto, invokes sorcery, [3].
- Centrifugal force, experiments in, [383].
- Chariot and pole, [256].
- Chess players, automaton, [367].
- Chest, Houdin’s magic, [17].
- Chronophotographic apparatus, amateur, [485].
- Chronophotographic camera, [465].
- Chronophotography, [462]-[487].
- Cinematograph camera, [508].
- Coin, the dissolving, [122].
- Coins, magic, [121].
- Coins, the multiplication of, [120].
- Collar, the spirit, [53].
- Columbus’s egg, [397].
- Comatula, [484].
- Composite photography, [459].
- Comus, [7].
- Conjurer’s tricks, [106]-[138].
- Crash effect, [304].
- Crystallized ornaments, [409].
- Curious toys, [380].
- Curtain, electric, [268].
- Curtain, fan drop, [268].
- Cybele, the statue of, [209].
- Cycloramas, [354]-[361].
- D’Ache, M. Caran, [181]-[183].
- D’Affre, Monseigneur, [12].
- Dance, the skirt, [342].
- Dancers, the, [392].
- Dark chamber, [467].
- Day to night effect, [297].
- Death’s head, enchanted, [100].
- Decapitation, [48].
- Demeny chronophotographic apparatus, [491].
- Detective thief catcher, [457].
- Doll, phonographic, [402].
- Dragon in “Siegfried,” [332].
- Drawing, magical, [410].
- Drinking horn, Heron’s, [225].
- Drops, [259].
- Duel, electrical, [342].
- Duplex photography, [438].
- Egg, Columbus’s, [397].
- Egg tricks, [105], [115], [119].
- Egypt, magic in ancient, [1].
- Elasticity, tricks in, [406].
- Electric cyclorama, [358].
- Electrical stage effects, [328]-[344].
- Electrical toys, [385]-[387].
- Electro-photo thief catcher, [457].
- Engine, origin of the steam, [234]-[238].
- Eolipile, Heron’s, [235].
- Escalopier, [12]-[15].
- Fafner, [332].
- Fire and smoke effects, [305].
- Fire, tricks with, [149], [152].
- Firearms, theatrical, [309].
- Fire eaters, [149], [152].
- Fire eaters and sword tricks, [149]-[163].
- Firefly, electric, [335].
- Fireworks, [362]-[366].
- Flies, [254].
- Flood, after the, [31].
- Flowers, the birth of, [112].
- Flowers, the cone of, [106].
- Flowers, magic, [109].
- Flowers, the queen of, [74].
- Forge, Siegfried’s, [328].
- Ghost, Pepper’s, [55].
- Glass, platinized, [86].
- Glass of wine, invisible journey of a, [132].
- “Gone,” [520].
- Gravity, experiments in, [384].
- Greek lamps, toys, etc., [239]-[250].
- Gridirons, [253].
- Grisi, Comte de, [8]-[10].
- Gull, photograph of, [479].
- Gun, photographic, [476].
- Hagen’s theatrical system, [275].
- Half-woman, the living, [69].
- Handkerchief tricks, [105], [123], [131], [133].
- Harps, magic, [103].
- Hat tricks, [114]-[119].
- Head, photographing a, [444].
- Head, the talking, [69].
- Heller and second sight, [185].
- Heller, Robert, [19].
- Heller, Robert, in the East, [1].
- Heron cited, [203]-[250].
- Herrmann, Alexander, [21]-[23].
- Herrmann, Carl, [19], [21]-[22].
- Herrmann, Leon, [23].
- Horse, photograph of, [464].
- Horse race on the stage. 324.
- Horse, the decapitated drinking, [244].
- Horse’s gallop, photograph of, [475].
- Houdin’s magic ball, [137].
- Houdin’s magic cabinet, [81].
- Illusion, optical, [380].
- Illusive photography, [441].
- Ink, goblet of, [131].
- Introduction, [1]-[26].
- Invention A.D. vs. B.C., [217]-[219].
- Isola brothers, [100].
- Jacob’s ladder, [399].
- Japanese mirrors, [416].
- Jewels, electric, [337].
- Jugglers, [139], [141].
- Jugglers and acrobatic performances, [139]-[148].
- Jumping, photograph of, [470].
- Kellar, H., [24].
- Kellar’s “Queen of Flowers,” [74].
- Kinetograph, [488].
- Kinetoscope, stereopticon, [495].
- Kircher cited, [212], [239].
- Kolta, B. de, [24].
- Kolta’s appearing lady, [39]-[42].
- Ladder, Jacob’s, [399].
- Lady, the appearing, [39]-[42].
- Lady, the disappearing, [42], [43].
- Lamps, perpetual, [239].
- Lamps, toys, etc., [239]-[250].
- Lavater, [423].
- Lightning effect, [302].
- Lohengrin’s swan, [312].
- Louis XVIII. and Comte de Grisi, [10].
- Lustral water vessel, [219], [220].
- Lynn, the mystery of Dr., [63].
- Mackaye’s theatrical inventions, [273], [274]
- Magic, beginning of natural, [2].
- Magic boxes, [128].
- Magic cabinets, [127].
- Magic envelopes, [128].
- Magic, mysteries of modern, [1]-[26].
- Magic photographs, [456].
- Magic portfolios, [127].
- Magic table, the, [519].
- Magnetic oracle, [391].
- Man, a steam, [377].
- Marvelous vessels of the Greeks, [221]-[233].
- Mask of Balsamo, [100].
- Maskelyne, J. M., [24].
- Match trick, [408].
- Maze, mystic, [84].
- Medusa, photography of, [482].
- Mental magic, [184]-[202].
- Metempsychosis, [532].
- Micromotoscope, [514].
- Mikado, the, [401].
- Mirage, artificial, [438].
- Mirrors, Japanese, [416].
- Mirrors, magic, [418].
- Money maker, [381].
- Moon, a trip to the, [348]-[353].
- Moon effects, [298].
- Mouse, the animated, [135].
- Moving pictures, projection of, [488]-[516].
- Multiphotography, [451].
- Multiple portrait, [450].
- Mutograph, [501].
- Mutoscope, [501].
- Muybridge’s experiments, [467].
- Mysterious disappearances, [27]-[54].
- Nautical arena, [345]-[347].
- Necktie, photographic, [455].
- Neoöcultism, [96].
- Nostradamus, [3].
- Odometers, [247]-[250].
- Odors, imitation of, [310].
- Opera glass, trick, [412].
- Opera house, behind the scenes of an, [251]-[267].
- Optical tricks, [55]-[88].
- Oracle, magnetic, [391].
- Organ, electrical, [263].
- Organs, ancient, [230]-[233].
- Ornaments, crystallized, [409].
- Paint bridge, [264].
- Palanquin, the magic, [34].
- Palladio’s theater, [289].
- Pepper, professor, [8].
- Phonographic doll, [402].
- Photographic diversions, [423]-[516].
- Photographic gun, [476].
- Photographic necktie, [455].
- Photographic portrait, [448].
- Photographing a catastrophe, [447].
- Photographing a head, [444].
- Photographs, magic, [456].
- Photography, composite, [459].
- Photography, duplex, [438].
- Photography, illusive, [441].
- Photography, spirit, [432].
- Photography upon black ground, [425].
- Photo thief catcher, [456].
- Physiological station, [466].
- Pictures, moving, projection of, [488]-[516].
- Pigeon, photograph of, [479].
- Pinetti, [184].
- Pinhole camera, [454].
- Planchette table, [414].
- Platinized glass, [86].
- Portrait, multiple, [450].
- Portraits, magic, [411].
- Post test, spiritualistic, [52].
- Princess, the decapitated, [77].
- Property room, [265].
- Psycho, [368].
- Puppets, animated, [170]-[172].
- Puzzle, novel, [407].
- Race course, electrical, [388].
- Race on the stage, [324].
- Rainbow effect, [300].
- Rain effect, [299].
- “Rheingold,” floating women in, [314].
- Ribbon photography, [509].
- Robert-Houdin, [11]-[19].
- Robert-Houdin, second sight, [184].
- Robertson, E. G., [7].
- Robinson, W. E., [21].
- Rochas, A. de, cited, [2].
- Rollin, [6].
- Rosebush, the magic, [108].
- Running, photograph of, [472].
- Saint-Amand cited, [4], [5].
- Sand frame trick, [136].
- Scene painting, [293].
- Scenes, changing, [265].
- Science in the theater, [251]-[366].
- Scurimobile, [94].
- Sea horse, photographs of, [481].
- Second sight, [125].
- Shadowgraphy, [173]-[181].
- Shadows, French, [181]-[183].
- “She,” [72].
- Ship on the stage, [316].
- “Siegfried,” effects in, [328]-[355].
- Silhouettes, apparatus for taking, [423].
- Skirt dance, [342].
- Slates, the spirit, [123].
- Sliders, [255].
- Snow effect, [304].
- Spear, Wotan’s, [334].
- Spider and the fly, the, [523].
- Spirit photography, [432].
- Stage, “Asphaleia,” [280].
- Stage effects, [293]-[310].
- Stage, elevator, [271].
- Stage inventions, American, [273]-[276].
- Stage, revolving, [276].
- Stage tricks, miscellaneous, [89]-[104].
- Stages, ancient and modern, [268]-[292].
- Stages, opera, [252].
- Stars, [298].
- Statue giving a double image, [88].
- Steam engine, origin of the, [234]-[238].
- Stella, [79].
- Strobeika Persane, La, [529].
- Sun effect, [297].
- Sunrise effects, [295].
- Sun robe, [315].
- Suspended head, [63].
- Swan, Lohengrin, [312].
- Swing, the haunted, [91].
- Switchboard, theater, [261].
- Sword swallowers, [156]-[161].
- Sword trick, [152].
- Sword walker, [161], [163].
- Table rapping, [101].
- Tachyscope, electric, [489].
- Target, the human, [153].
- Temple of Dagon, construction of, [323].
- Temple tricks of the Greeks, [203]-[220].
- Temples, the machinery of, [213]-[217].
- Theater, curious pivoted, [287].
- Theater, optical, [489].
- Theater, Palladio’s, [289].
- Theater secrets, [311]-[344].
- Theater with two auditoriums, [283].
- The dicaiometer, [221].
- Thief catcher, photographic, [457].
- Thorn, E., [38], [39].
- Thought transference, [197]-[202].
- Thunder effect, [301].
- Ties, spiritualistic, [50].
- Torch, electric, [337].
- Torpedo, [484].
- Torrini, see Grisi.
- Toy, a Greek, [243].
- Toys, ancient, [393].
- Toys electrical, [385]-[393].
- Transformation, gradual, [307].
- Trapeze, revolving, [142].
- Traps, [255], [311].
- Trewey the shadowgraphist, [25], [173]-[181].
- Trick photography, [423]-[516].
- Tricks, miscellaneous, [407]-[421].
- Tricks, optical, [55]-[88].
- Trilby, the illusion of, [89].
- Trunk, the mysterious, [44].
- Trunk trick, the, [526].
- Tulips, electric, [335].
- Tumbler, [397].
- Vanity Fair, [27].
- Ventriloquism and animated puppets, [164]-[172].
- Vessels, magical, [227].
- Vicenza, theater at, [289].
- Vitascope, [497].
- Walking on the ceiling, [144].
- Walking, photograph of, [471].
- Wave effect, [304].
- Wine changed to water, [134].
- Woman, the invisible, [102].
- Woman, the three-headed, [60].
- X-ray illusion, [96].