Pinetti, Guiseppe: Physical Amusements and Diverting Experiments ©1784 Guiseppe Pinette Hardcover, no dj, 68 pages

Comments: "Physical Amusements and Diverting Experiments composed and performed in different capitals of Europe and in London by Signor Giuseppe Pinetti, De Wildalle..."

Submitted by Jacky Kahan on Fri, 2004-08-13 21:26

Contents (from US Library of Congress digitized edition):

05 Preface
11 Chap I: Curious Method Of Restoring To Life, In Two Minutes, A Fly That Has Been Drowned Even Twenty-Four Hours
12 Chap II: To Make A Colour That Will Appear Or Disappear By Means Of The Air
12 Chap III: Method Of Drawing A Deformed Figure, Which Will Appear Well Proportioned From A Certain Point Of View
13 Chap IV: To Change The Colour Of A Rose
14 Chap V: To Render Hideous The Faces Of All The Company
14 Chap VI: Method Of Engraving In Relief On The Shell Of A New-Laid Egg
15 Chap VII: To Shoot A Swallow Flying, With A Gun Loaded With Powder, As Usual; And After, To Find Means To Bring It To Life Again
16 Chap VIII: To Make A Calve's Head Bellow As If Alive, When Dressed And Served Up
17 Chap IX: A Puzzling Question To Be Proposed For Solution: an addition puzzle
19 Chap X: How To Dispose Two Little Figures, So That One Shall Light A Candle; And The Other Put It Out
20 Chap XI: A Curious Secret To Make A Card Pass From One Hand Into The Other
23 Chap XII: To Change A Card Which Is In The Hand Of A Person, Recommending Him To Cover It Well
25 Chap XIII: To Guesss A Card That Has Been Thought Of By Any Body, By Writing Before Hand On A Paper Or Card A Number, Which Will Certainly Be That Of The Card That Has Been Thought Of
26 - Example
28 Chap XIV: A Mathematical Combination For Guessing, In A Whole Pack Composed Of Fifty-two Cards, How Many Points Will Make The Cards Under Each Parcel, Which Parcels Are To Be Made By One Of The Company, Observing To Him That Each Parcel He Makes Is To Compose The Number Of Thirteen, To Begin From The Point Of The First Card Which He Takes To Form Each Parcel
32 Chap XV: To Guess The Thoughts Of Any Person, Assuring Him, That You Will Write Before-hand On A Piece Of Paper The Amount Of The Parcel Of Cards He Shall Happen To Chuse Out Of The Two Placed On The Table
34 Chap XVI: A Curious And Agreeable Wager, Which You Are Sure Of Winning
35 Chap XVII: A Trick With Cards; Uniting The Double Advantage Of Being Very Easy And Infallible, It Being On A Little Numerical Combination
36 Chap XVIII: Sympathetic Inks: chemical magic
38 Chap XIX: To Make An Addition Before The Figures Are Set, By Knowing Only How Many Figures Are In Each Row; As Likewise How Many Rows Compose The Whole; And Then Adding Yourself Some Figures Equal To Those That Had Been Set
39 - Example
42 Chap XX: An Artificial Spider, Which Moves By Electricity
43 Chap XXI: To Extinguish Two Wax Candles, And Light Two Others, Distant About Three Feet, By The Firing Of A Pistol, Loaded With Powder, As Usual
44 Chap XXII: To Compose A Red Colour, Imitating The Colour Of Blood
45 - Preparation of the Liquor
47 Chap XXIII: To Extinguish A Wax Candle At Eighty Or A Hundred Paces Distance, By Firing A Gun Loaded With Ball, And To Be Certain Of Not Missing, However Unskilful May Be The Marksman
49 Chap XXIV: To Cut A Glass, A Looking-Glass, Or Even A Piece Of Crystal, Let It Be Ever So Thick, Without The Help Of A Diamond, In The Same Shape As The Mark Of The Drawing Made On It With Ink
50 Chap XXV: To Melt A Piece Of Steel As If It Was Lead, Without Requiring A Very Great Fire
51 - Another Method Of Melting Steel, And To See It Liquify
52 Chap XXVI: To Unite Wax And Water (Things Absolutely Opposite To Each Other); This Union, Made In The Twentieth Part Of A Minute, Forms A Good Pomatum To Clean The Skin, And Render It Soft And White. It Is Fine Cosmetic
53 Chap XXVII: A Curious Method Or Sealing A Letter, So As Not To Be Opened, By Variegating The Seal With Different Coloured Species Of Wax
54 Chap XXVIII: To Make Fine Blue Wax, Which Is Very Difficult To Be Had
55 Chap XXIX: A Philosophical Mushroom: chemical effect
57 Chap XXX: To Make A Ring Shift From One Hand To Another, And To Make It Go On Whatever Finger Is Required On The Other Hand, While Somebody Holds Both Your Arms, In Order To Prevent Any Communication Between Them
59 Chap XXXI: To Guess, By Smelling, Which Has Been The Number Struck Out By A Person In The Company, In The Product Of A Multiplication Given Him To Do
60 - Example
62 - Example
63 Chap XXXII: To Make Any Pen-Knife Out Of Three Jump Out Of A Goblet, Agreeable To The Option Company
64 Chap XXXIII: To Pull Off Any Person's Shirt, Without Undressing Him, Or Having Occasion For A Confederate

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