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 ====== Card Location by Compass ======
-See Item 18, page 21, in //The Notebook//, edited by Will Houstoun, written around 1800. This describes a compass needle that stops on a chosen card in a circle. The method is a subtle bend in the support pin, which causes the needle to settle by gravity in a predetermined direction. A precursor of "The Hand of Cleopatra", marketed by Zauber Zentrale Muchen and later by Ken Brooke.
+In untitled notebook from c. 1800, a trick is described where a compass needle stops on a chosen card in a circle. The method is a subtle bend in the support pin, which causes the needle to settle by gravity in a predetermined direction. Will Houstoun transcribed the manuscript and published it as //The Notebook//, 2009, p. 21. This is a precursor of the better known "The Hand of Cleopatra," 1980, marketed by Zauber Zentrale Muchen and later by Ken Brooke.
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