Author: Endless amusementPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A sequel to the Endless amusement. To which are added, Recreations with cards
Author: Endless amusementEndless Amusement, Containing Nearly Four Hundred Interesting Experiments, in Various Branches of Science, Including ... Pneumatics ... &., to which are Added Recreations with Cards ...
Author: The Long Life of Magical Objects
Author: Allegra IafratePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271085339
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects and interrogates the ways in which magic manifests itself at a material level. Each chapter focuses on a different Solomonic object: a ring used to control demons; a mysterious set of bottles that constrain evil forces; an endless knot or seal with similar properties; the shamir, known for its supernatural ability to cut through stone; and a flying carpet that can bring the sitter anywhere he desires. Taken together, these chapters constitute a study on the reception of the figure of Solomon, but they are also cultural biographies of these magical objects and their inherent aesthetic, morphological, and technical qualities. Thought-provoking and engaging, Iafrate’s study shows how ancient magic artifacts live on in our imagination, in items such as Sauron’s ring of power, Aladdin’s lamp, and the magic carpet. It will appeal to historians of art, religion, folklore, and literature.
Recreations in science; or, A complete series of rational amusement. By the author of Endless amusements
Author: RecreationsPublisher:
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Category : Experiments
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Auction Catalogs, Hodgson's Rooms
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Friendship's Offering
Author: Friendship's Offering
Author: Thomas Kibble HerveyPublisher:
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Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Author: F. ACCUM
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