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INDEX 



PAGE 

 123 

 133 

 1 68 

 97 

 114 



Sense, possibility of a new .... 

 Shadow going backward on dial 

 Shakespeare, cost of first folio . . 



Philosopher's stone 



Witchcraft 



Shanks value of ratio carried to 



707 places 16 



Sharp, Abraham 16 



Sight, sense of, deceived 152 



Smith, James, on squaring circle . 28 



Snake lifted by spider 130 



Solvent, universal 104 



Space enlarged by cutting 126 



Spider lifting a snake 130 



Sun-dial shadow going backward 133 



Taste and smell illusions .... 149 



Tides, clock moved by 40 



Will be the great source of power of 



the future 40 



Time it would take Archimedes to 



move the world 171 



Touch, sense of, deceived .... 150 



Transmutation of the metals ... 79 



Ancient fables 79 



Hermes Trismegistus 80 



Treatises not allegorical .... 81 



Seven metals 82 



Metals named after planets ... 82 



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Transmutation of metals continued. 



Methods of cheating 83 



"Brief of the Golden Calf " . . 84 



Story of unknown Italian ... 87 



Possibility of effecting 88 



Sir William Ramsay 89 



Effect of such discovery on our 



currency system 90 



"Tribune," New York 29 



Trisection of angle 33 



Tube and balls 56 



Tube and rope 59 



Universal medicine. 

 Life. 



See Elixir of 



Van Ceulen, Rudolph 16 



Wallich, Dr 35 



Watch that is wound by walking . 39 



Used as a compass 134 



Webb micrographs 142 



WhewelPs refutation of 3^ ratio . . 28 



Wilkin's, Bishop 48 



Witchcraft or magic . 113 



Worcester, Marquis of 74 



Writing, fine 139 



Young, Dr. Thomas 44 



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