Harapan Ong: Principia
Ong, Harapan: Principia
©2018 Harapan Ong, Vanishing, Inc.
Hardcover, no dj, 253 pages
Harapan Ong: Principia
Image courtesy eBay seller Kerman**848

Comments: Originally came with a deck of gimmicked cards used for some effects. Also available in a Limited Deluxe Edition in a slipcase (blue cover). Gimmicked cards utilized are generally available.

Contents (from book ToC):

9 Foreword by Joshua Jay
11 Introduction
13 Thinking Like a Physicist

23 Classical Mechanics
23 Streamlined Pocket Transposition
27 The Card Across
31 On Producing a Four-of-a-Kind
- Hadouken Production
- Stress Production
- Passport Production
37 Kaleidoscope Production
40 Straight Ace
43 Poker Player's Picnic Plus
45 Michalevator
50 Jacob's Elevator
54 Royal Explosions
- Royal Explosion One
- Royal Explosion Two
58 Simple Bean Aces
61 Daley’s Last Sandwiches
- Tabled Version
- In the Hands
- Table and Hands
67 Extensions on the Aronson “Heads Over Heels" Move
- Sudden Surprise Sandwich
- Head Over Heels Face to Face
71 Triumph Squared
74 Play It Crooked
80 Twisting Morph
85 Three Degrees of Separation
89 Direct Triple Prediction

95 Condensed Matter
95 Sandwich-ception
100 Oops
103 Three Chances
109 Bigger Transpo
112 Tiny Transpo
116 Perspective
120 Faro Pharaoh
- Basic Handling
- Advanced Handling
124 Extensions to the Cheek to Cheek Deck
- Dude You’re not Even Trying
- The More You Shuffle
130 Followers of Christ
137 Countdown Packet
141 Routines with a Tabled False Cut
- Rapid Fire Benzais
- That Escalated Quickly

153 Particle Physics
153 Daley Express
157 Throwaway Tricks
- Triumph in the Trash
- Blank in the Bin
- Remix in the Rubbish
166 King's Overture
169 On the Alfonso-Giobbi Twisting Sequence
- Cascading Twist
- Plot Twist
172 Gag Packs
- Change Back
- One Direction
177 World's Smallest Colour Change
183 Direct Ambigrams
- The Law of Non-Conservation of Card Magic
- Tawanokomu
187 Checkmate
190 "Have a Break Have a Kit Kat"
193 Flexacard

199 Optics
199 The Frog Prince
203 2 + 2 = 4
205 4-3-2-1

211 Fluid Dynamics
211 On the Fundamental Structures of Routines
216 On Apophenia and Coincidence Effects
222 On Magic Evolution and Bottom-Up Design
229 Thoughts on "The Trick That Cannot Be Explained"
234 Count or Spell
238 Twisted Choices
245 A Blind Mess
249 What Magicians Can Learn From Scientists


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