Summary

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. ”
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Philosophical Transactions, Volume 3…

“ If the Object be a Statue, or some living Creature, then it must be very much enlighn'd by casting the Sunbeams on it by Refraction, Reflexion, or both. Between this Object, and the Place where 'tis to be represented, there is to be placed a broad Convex-glass, ground of such a convexity, as that it may represent the Object distinct on the said place; which any one, that hath any insight in the Opticks, may easily direct. The nearer it is placed to the object, the more is the Object magnified on the Wall, and the further off; the less; which diversity is effected by Glasses of several spheres. ”
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Philosophical Transactions, Volume 3…

“ If the Object cannot be inverted (as 'tis pretty difficult to do with Living Animals, Candles, &c.) then there must be two large Glasses of convenient Spheres, and they plac'd at the appropriated distances (which are very easily found by tryals) so as to make the representations erect as well as the Object.
These Objects, Reflecting and Refracting Glasses, and the whole Apparatus; as also the Persons employ'd to order, change and make use of them, must be placed without the said high Window or Hole, so that they may not be perceived by the Spectators in the room
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