Gardner, Robert: Magic Through Science ©1978 Robert Gardner, Doubleday & Co., Inc., NY Softcover, perfect-bound, 163 pages ISBN: 0-385-12348-4

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Comments: Illustrated by Jeff Brown. Magic and science demonstrations using physics, chemistry, optical illusions, etc. Note that many require parental supervision as they may use dangerous or toxic chemicals, fire, etc.

Contents (from book):

1 Before the Show Begins
2 The Acts
2 Patter and On-Stage Behavior
3 Rehearsal
3 Sources for Props
4 Safety

7 Act I Magician's Magic
7 Scene 1 - Pick a Card: card location
8 Scene 2 - One of Four: using pinochle cards
8 Scene 3 - Pick a Buck: selecting the right dollar bill
9 Scene 4 - Guess Again: poker chip discovery
10 Scene 5 - The Burned Initial: initial becomes burned on match head
10 Scene 6 - Your Birthday: determining someone's birthday
12 Scene 7 - Magnificent Memory: phone book test
13 Scene 8 - A Mysterious Marble: spectator can't locate the box with the marble in it

15 Act II ESP
15 Scene 2 - Name the Object: two person code
17 Scene 2 - Name the Card: using three rows of three cards
19 Scene 3 - Muscle ESP: another two person code
20 Scene 4 - Which Hand Holds the Coin?

22 Act III Magic Over Mind
22 Scene 1 - A Suspended Sausage: optical illusion
24 Scene 2 - A Hole In the Hand: another
24 Scene 3 - A Disappearing Letter: uncovering the eye's blind spot
25 Scene 4 - An Upside Down Shadow: pinhole camera concept
26 Scene 5 - You Can Put a Fish in Water But You Can't Make Him Drink: optical illusion
27 Scene 6 - Drag a Circle: the color of half a circle appears to change shade

31 Act IV Magic with Kitchen Chemicals
31 Scene 1 - The Magic Message: invisible ink
32 Scene 2 - Genie in a Bottle: dark whisps rise in a bottle
34 Scene 3 - Disappearing Ink
35 Scene 4 - Cider to Ink: color change liquid
36 Scene 5 - Grape to Mint to Grape: triple color change liquid
38 Scene 6 - A Bottle Gun: exploding a cork
39 Scene 7 - Bottled Anti-Fire: extinguishing a flame
41 Scene 8 - Dancing Spheres: moth balls
42 Scene 9 - Bouncing Raisins: in carbonation
43 Scene 10 - A Fireproof Handkerchief
44 Scene 11 - Sink or Float: magic liquid stops a box from floating
45 Scene 12 - A Paper Percolator: water boils in paper cup
45 Scene 13 - A Jumping Flame: blown out candle still lights a match
47 Scene 14 - How Do You Like Your Eggs, Up or Down?
49 Scene 15 - Blowing Through a Bottle: extinguishing a candle
51 Scene 16 - A Collapsing Can: using heat
51 Scene 17 - A Colored Geyser
56 Scene 18 - Don't Get Wet: Magician doesn't get wet
57 Scene 19 - Stringing Water: Water down a string

60 Act V Magic With Color, Light and Shadows
60 Light Box: Constructing the box used for many of the following
63 Scene 1 - Pinhole Ghosts
65 Scene 2 - Mixing Colored Light
67 Scene 3 - Color in Colored Light
69 Scene 4 - The World Through Colored Filters
70 Scene 5 - Lingering Shadows
72 Scene 6 - Inverted Ghosts
75 Scene 7 - Turning Words Around
76 Scene 8 - A Disappearing Shadow
77 Scene 9 - Dissolved Light
78 Scene 10 - An Underwater Flame
81 Scene 11 - The Magic Mirror: spectator sees themselves standing on their head

84 Act VI The Magic of Galileo and Newton
84 Scene 1 - Galileo and the Pendulum, An Opener
87 Scene 2 - The Switch and the Twist: another pendulum
89 Scene 3 - An Undecided Pendulum
91 Scene 4 - Falling Together: gravity
93 Scene 5 - Catch a Falling Buck: spectator can't catch the money
95 Scene 6 - Flight Time of a Bullet: trajectory
97 Scene 7 - Coins from Under: knocking coins
98 Scene 8 - A Balloon That Won't Explode: though poked with a pin
99 Scene 9 - A Dancing Ball: on a blowing vacuum
101 Scene 10 - Up and Down Submarine: dropper in a bottle rises
103 Scene 11 - Bed of Nails: that don't hurt
105 Scene 12 - A Mysterious Pair of Balloon: air moves in unusual way
10 Scene 13 - Card and Cloth: removing a card from under a marble
108 Scene 14 - A Friction-less Air Car: to build
110 Scene 15 - Strength Isn't Everything: strength test
112 Scene 16 - Up and Over: water stays in a pail
112 Scene 17 - A Center-Seeking Flame
113 Scene 18 - Round and Round: accelerometer
117 Scene 19 - Compass Magic: with a magnet
119 Scene 20 - An Underwater Light: electricity under water
122 Scene 21 - An Ornery Bulb: parallel and series circuits
124 Scene 22 - Bending Water: a wand bends a stream of water
126 Scene 23 - Floating Metal and the Magic Sinking Powder: paperclip floats then sinks
128 Scene 24 Fused Streams: from holes in a can
130 Scene 25 Out Candle!: putting out a candle from a distance

132 Act VII More Magic Through Chemistry
132 Scene 1 - A Burning Message: a fire burns a message
134 Scene 2 - A Copper Christmas Tree: 'snow' appears on a copper tree
135 Scene 3 - The Philosophers' Stone: seemingly changing iron to gold
137 Scene 4 - A Stirred Up Refrigerator: creating ice without a freezer
138 Scene 5 - A Paper Battery
140 Scene 6 - Disappearing Glass: smaller beaker in a larger one seems to vanish
142 Scene 7 - Ice on Fire
143 Scene 8 - Exploding Bubbles

146 Act VIII Colored Chemical Magic
146 Scene 1 - A Blue Message
147 Scene 2 - A Sometimes Blue Bottle
149 Scene 3 - Delayed Dark-Blue Magic
150 Scene 4 - Colors For a Halloween Holiday
151 Scene 5 - Colors On, Colors Off
153 Scene 6 - Red, White and Blue
155 Scene 7 - A Row of Colors
157 Scene 8 - Spray a Flag: spraying a paper makes a flag appear
158 Scene 9 - Hot Color, Cold Color: hot and cold change colors
160 Scene 10 - Colored Electrical Writing: with a battery

163 Robert Gardner: About the Author