Author: Wiegleb, Johann Christian (1732-1800) & Johann N. Martius
Title: DIE NATURLICHE MAGIE [Natural Magic], aus allerhand belustigenden und nuetzlichen Kunststuecken bestehend .. [2nd Title:] Johann Nikolaus Martius UNTERRICHT IN DER NATURLICHEN MAGIE .. voellig umgearbeitet von Johann Christian Wiegleb. Zweyter Band. Mit Kupfern.
Description: Berlin & Stettin, Friedrich Nicolai 1786 Folding plates (13 of 14) illustrating scientific devices, magical tricks, experiments and games. . Octavo cloth-spined boards (rebacked, edges worn). Two titlepages facing each other +[16]pp (Preface & Contents) +406pp in 8 Sections: Electrical devices, Magnetic, Optical, Chemical, Mechanical, Mathematical, Household & gardening hints, Card tricks +[10]pp Index +13 of 14 folding plates lacking plate One (electrical devices), supplied in facsimile. *Wiegleb's extensive revision and expansion of the German translation of J.N. Martius Dissertatio Inauguralis Physico-medica de Magia Naturali (1st ed. Erfurt 1700). This volume is the second in a series of eventually 20 volumes published 1782-1805.

Keywords: magic tricks optical electrical science


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