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Excerpt from Rational Recreations, Vol. 1: In Which the Principles of Numbers and Natural Philosophy
As the design of this work is to render useful knowledge easy and entertaining, the author has selected the principal part of the experiments from the writers on recreative philosophy of the last and present centuries; from Baptista Porta to Ozanam and Guyot; the last, especially, has furnished a large number of Recreations that are new and pleasing, and from him also are copied several figures that the authors of the experiments they explain have only described. The writers on Electricity have also contributed a considerable quantity of Recreations, and such as for pleasure and surprize are inferior to none.
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