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Gale's Cabinet of knowledge, or, Miscellaneous recreations

containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural and metaphysical maxims, and observations on select subjects of general utility : with a series of easy, entertaining and interesting mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, including the most celebrated card deceptions, together with about seven hundred serious, comic, and humorous queries, paradoxes, &c. ... : likewise an appendix, containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings, with some curious definitions in optics

by John Gale

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English

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Traditions: Ritual magic and grimoires

Subjects: Early works to 1800, Magic tricks, Science, Scientific recreations, Amusements, Recreation

Provenance

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  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • Magic· via Open Library
    • Magic· in subject

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containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural and metaphysical maxims, and observations on select subjects of general utility : with a series of easy, entertaining and interesting mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, including the most celebrated card deceptions, together with about seven hundred serious, comic, and humorous queries, paradoxes, &c. ... : likewise an appendix, containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings, with some curious definitions in optics

Open Library record

1808Printed for Cuthell and Martin; Lackington, Allen, and Co.; Scatcherd and Letterman; Crosby and Co.; and W. BaynesEnglishNo ebook

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