INDEX 



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Declaration of Independence ... 145 



De Luc's column 40 



De Morgan Legend of Michael 



Scott 6 



Ignorance v. learning 8 



Illustration of accuracy of modern 



attempts to square the circle . 18 



" Budget of Paradoxes " ... 6, 18 



Trisection of angle 34, 118 



On powder of sympathy .... 112 



Anecdote of Diderot 118 



Dial of Ahaz 133 



Diderot, anecdote of 118 



Digby, Sir Kenelm, and palingenesy 109 

 Sir Kenelm and powder of sym- 

 pathy in 



Dircks 56, 71, 75 



Discoveries, valuable, not due to per- 

 petual-motion-mongers .... 36 

 Duplication of the cube 30 



Elixir of life 95 



Engineering, insect 130 



Euler 14, 118 



Fallacies in perpetual motion ... 65 



Falstaff and the philosopher's stone . 97 



Faraday's discovery 93 



Farrants, Prest. Royal Mic. Soc. . 140 



Figure, a, enlarged by cutting . . 126 



First folio Shakespeare, cost of . . 168 



Fixation of mercury 92 



Follies of Science, The Seven ... 2 



Disraeli's list 2 



An inappropriate term 3 



Fourth dimension conception of . 117 



Flatland 120 



Kant and Gauss 121 



Spiritualists 121 



Edward Carpenter on 122 



Possibility of a new sense ... 123 



Frauds in perpetual motion .... 69 



Freezing of mercury 93 



Froment, micrographs 139 



Gases, liquefication of 93 



Geiser's clock 71 



Geometrical quadrature impossible 21 



Gibberish, origin of word .... 96 



God, demonstration of existence of 118 



Hammer made of solid mercury . 93 



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Hand, to look through 156 



Heat and cold, illusions 150 



Hesse, Landgrave of 77 



Hindoos, ratio accepted by .... 16 

 Holmes, O. W., and powder of sym- 

 pathy in 



Homer's Iliad in nut-shell .... 136 



Honecourt, Wilars de 42 



Horses lifted by child 131 



Hydrofluoric acid 104 



Hydrostatic paradox 46 



Iliad of Homer in nutshell .... 136 



Impossible, fascination of the ... i 



Insect engineering 130 



Irradiation 152 



Jews, ratio accepted by the ... 13 



Keeley gold cure 97 



Keeley motor 69 



Kircher and palingenesy 106 



Lacomme, on squaring circle ... 27 



Lamps, ever-burning 100 



Library, Congressional, in hand-bag 145 



Light from electric earth-currents . 103 



Lines, geometrical 119 



Lines, direction of, deceptive ... 154 



Length of, deceptive 153 



Liquid air 65 



Lodge, Sir Oliver, on conservation 



of energy 5 



Longitude, relation of squaring the 



circle to 10 



McArthur, on arithmetic of ancients 15 



Machin 16 



Magnetism for perpetual motion . 61 



Man lifting himself 128 



Mathematicians how they go to 



heaven 8 



Mercury, fixation of 9 2 



Freezing of 93 



Metals. See Transmutation. 



Metius, Peter 16 



Micrography, or minute writing . . 136 



Homer in a nutshell 136 



Michael Angelo's seal 136 



Ten Commandments 136 



Bible in a nutshell 136 



