INDEX 



PAGE 



Perpetual motion, dock wound by 



tides ' 41 



By electricity 41 



Absurdities 42 



Overbalancing wheels 43 



Dr. Young, on 44 



Bellows action 45 



Hydrostatic paradox 46 



Bishop Wilkins 48 



Archimedean screw 49 



Archimedean screw, by mercury . 51 



Congreve's, by capillary attraction 53 



Tube and balls 56 



Tube and rope 59 



Magnetism 61 



Self -moving railway carriage . . 63 



A child's perpetual motion ... 64 



Fallacies 65 



Liquid air 65 



Bisulphide of carbon 66 



Frauds 69 



Keeley motor 69 



Geiser's clock 71 



Adams 71 



Redhoeffer 72 



Lukens 72 



How to stop the machine .... 73 



Marquis of Worcester 74 



Dircks' model 75 



Orffyreus 77 



Possibility of 78 



Peters' micrographs 141 



Philosopher's stone 97 



Phosphorus, discovery of 



101, 180 



Pigeon-post 146 



Population, a question of 165 



Power, the, of the future 40 



Ptolemy, on the circle 15 



Puzzles, arithmetical 170 



Railway carriage, self-moving ... 63 



Ramsay, Sir William 89, 98 



Ratio of draieter to circumference 



carried to 127 places 17 



Redhoeffer's perpetual motion ... 72 



Rice paper 223 



Rosicrucius 100 



Rule, exception proves 213 



Rutherford 16 



PAGS 



Sanchoniathon 189 



Schott, Father, and palingenesy . . 107 



Schweirs, Dr 52 



Scott, Michael, and his slave demons 6 

 Scott, Sir Walter, bastard editions . 199 

 Legend of the great Wizard Mi- 

 chael Scott 6 



Powder of sympathy 112 



Sealing wax 223 



Self -moving railway carriage . . ... ' 03 



Sense, possibility of a new .... 123 



Senses illusions of 148 



Taste and smell 149 



Heat and cold 150 



Hearing 150 



Touch 150 



Sight size of spot 152 



Length of lines 153 



Direction of lines 154 



Objects seen through hand . . . 156 



Looking through a brick .... 158 



Serpent, forked tongue not a weapon 200 



Serpent, has no sting in tail . . . . 199 



Shadow going backward on dial . . 133 



Shakespeare, cost of first folio ... 168 



Philosopher's stone 97 



Witchcraft 114 



Shakespeare's errors 177 



Shanks value of ratio carried to 



707 places 16 



Sharp, Abraham 16 



Shelley, Mrs 217 



Sight, sense of, deceived 152 



Smith, James, on squaring circle . . 28 



Snake from horsehair 201 



Snake lifted by spider 130 



Soap bubbles 179 



Solvent, universal 104 



Space enlarged by cutting 126 



Sparrowgrass 223 



Spider lifting a snake 130 



Steam is invisible 196 



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 



Tidy, Professor 185 



Time it would take Archimedes to 



move the world ....... 171 



