Volume 3

Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards / By W. Hooper.

  • Hooper, William, M.D.
Date:
1787
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Credit: Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards / By W. Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    formed into two figures, as in p. 287, contain the figures of thirty-two pieces of money, / RECREATION CVI. p. 288 / The penetrative guinea. In a tin box, of the fize of a fnuff- box, there are eight more, which go into each other ; they all fhut with a hinge and the laft is locked. Thefe boxes are placed in a drawer, and open. You defire a perfon to lend you a new guinea, and mark it : this guinea you flip into the leaf! box and clofe them all at once in taking them out of the draw- er ; then having another new guinea in your other hand, and which is fuppofed to be the fame, you pretend to make it pafs through the box, and convey it a- way. You then give the boxes to any one, and he opens them all to the laft, of which you give him the key, and on opening that box he finds the guinea he had