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CHAPTER XVIII.
The Thaumatrope.--A great improvement effected in its construction.--Another toy upon the same optical principle.
Tom’s holidays were now drawing to a close, and the children were summoned into the library to receive their last lesson in philosophy.
“You have lately witnessed an experiment,” said Mr. Seymour, “which must have convinced you how liable the ear is to be deluded with respect to the nature and direction of sound; I shall now show you that the eye has also its sources of fallacy.”