Philosophical Transactions, Volume 3…
“ It produces Effects not onely very delightful, but to such as know not the contrivance, very wonderful; so that Spectators, not well versed in Opticks, that should see the various Apparitions and Disappearances, the Motions, Changes, and Actions, that may this way be represented, would readily believe them to be super-natural and miraculous, and would as easily be affected with all those passions of Love, Fear, Reverence, Honour, and Astonishment, that are the natural consequences of such belief. ”
