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misc:divination_through_magnetism [2013/04/27 14:10] – Tweaked maxmavenmental:divination_through_magnetism [2014/06/05 15:45] – Page moved from misc:divination_through_magnetism to mental:divination_through_magnetism denisbehr
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 Much the same effect, with a more elaborate method that also uses magnetism, is "The Box of Divination" in volume two of //Hooper's Rational Recreations//, published in 1774. Much the same effect, with a more elaborate method that also uses magnetism, is "The Box of Divination" in volume two of //Hooper's Rational Recreations//, published in 1774.
  
-By the end of the nineteenth century, the trick (in streamlined form) is well established. A version appears as "The Box of Numbers" in Hoffmann's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18823/More+Magic/271|More Magic]]//, 1890. In this, the pieces are defined as "slabs" (hence closer to thick cards rather than cubes). The same effect is recycled in Hilliar's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18955/Modern+Magicians+Hand+Book/224?pw=magnet|Modern Magician's Hand Book]]//, 1902.+By the end of the nineteenth century, the trick (in streamlined form) is well established. A version appears as "The Box of Numbers" in Hoffmann's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18823/More+Magic/271|More Magic]]//, 1890. In this, the pieces are defined as "slabs" (hence closer to thick cards or tablets rather than cubes). The same effect is recycled in Hilliar's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18955/Modern+Magicians+Hand+Book/224?pw=magnet|Modern Magician's Hand Book]]//, 1902.
  
 In the January 1899 issue of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16166/Mahatma+Vol+2+No+07/10|Mahatma]]//, Henry Hardin has "A Clever Improvement" with the introductory comment: "The box of numbers trick, with the magnets and compasses, will be remembered by all who are to any degree proficient in legerdemain...." (Hardin's trick does not use magnets.) In the January 1899 issue of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16166/Mahatma+Vol+2+No+07/10|Mahatma]]//, Henry Hardin has "A Clever Improvement" with the introductory comment: "The box of numbers trick, with the magnets and compasses, will be remembered by all who are to any degree proficient in legerdemain...." (Hardin's trick does not use magnets.)