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- | It is probably impossible to ascertain the origin of the old optical illusion of dropping one metal cup into another and having it seemingly pass through the cup. However, the written record can perhaps give us some sense of the age of the trick. In several issues of the nineteenth-century magazine //Our Young Folks// appears a series of articles titled [[http:// | + | It is probably impossible to ascertain the origin of the old optical illusion of dropping one metal cup into another and having it seemingly pass through the cup. However, the written record can perhaps give us some sense of the age of the trick. It is described and illustrated in Henri Decremps' |
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+ | It seems to have taken almost eighty years after Decremps for an English description of the maneuver to appear. In several issues of the nineteenth-century magazine //Our Young Folks// appears a series of articles titled [[http:// | ||
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