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The William W. Larsen Memorial Library
Science Behind the Ghost, The
Author/Editor: Steinmeyer, Jim
includes Discovering Invisibility
The Science Behind the Ghost – A Brief History of Pepper’s Ghost
Preface
Baptista Porta
Henri Robin
Pierre Séguin
Henry Dircks
The Lighting
Professor John Henry Pepper
The Polytechnic Shows
The Ghost Patents
The Ghost on Other Stages
The Théâtre Robin
Robert-Houdin
The Angle of the Glass
The Sight-Lines of the Ghost
Black Art
Dr. Lynn and the Simmons Patent
Auzinger and DeKolta
The Question of Color
The Ghost and the Cinema
Disney’s Haunted Mansion
Modern Applications
Illustrations
Sources
Discovering Invisibility – How the Great Conjurers Evolved the Principles of their Art Through a Silvered Glass
Reflecing, Backwards
We are Here, But Not Here
The Sphynx Has Arrived
Macbeth’s Head
The Gorilla’s Den
Philosophies and Sight-lines
Morritt’s Creations
All Down with Mirrors
Inventing, Backwards
Notes and Sources