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Hypnotic wheel, as used in the Mysteries of Myra, containing more than 50 revolving mirrors, reflecting light. From Modern Psychical Phenomena: Recent Researches and Speculations by Hereward Carrington, 1919.

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Del Bene, Civitas Veri sive Morum (‘The City of Truth; or, Ethics’), c.1609.

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Hendrick Goltzius, Portrait of Nicolaus Petri van Deventer (Engraving), 1595.
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Three drawings from an obscure 16th century anonymous paper manuscript containing sketches of Geometric Solids.



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Nobuyuki Wakabayashi, Soleil Noir (Lunar Eclipse), 1971.

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Equatorium (instrument for finding planetary positions), c.1552.
[The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford, MS Savile 100, f.8r.]
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Berenice Abbott. Parabolic Mirror. 1960.
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The ? Motorist (1906) by Paul’s Animatograph Works, directed by W.R. Booth
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