Steinmeyer, Jim: Two Lectures on Theatrical Illusion ©2001 Jim Steinmeyer, Hahne Softcover, spiral-bound, 8.5x8.5"

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Comments: Includes: The Science Behind the Ghost - a Brief History of Pepper's Ghost, originally published in 1999; Discovering Invisibility - How the Great Conjurers Evolved the Principles of their Art Through a Silvered Mirror, originally published in 2001.

Contents (Contents for first part only, from book ToC):

1 Introduction to the New Edition

3 THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE GHOST: A Brief History of Pepper s Ghost
3 Preface
5 Baptista Porta
6 Henri Robin
9 Pierre Séguin
12 Henry Dircks
18 The Lighting
20 Professor John Henry Pepper
26 The Polytechnic Shows
30 The Ghost Patents
35 The Ghost on Other Stages
39 The Théâtre Robin
40 Robert-Houdin
45 The Angle of the Glass
49 The Sight-Lines of the Ghost
56 Black Art
58 Dr. Lynn and the Simmons Patent
61 Auzinger and DeKolta

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---Below copied from the individual Discovering Invisibility manuscript, I'm not sure if the contents match exactly---

9 Chapter 1. Reflecting, Backwards: The Ghost inspired a series of optical experiments on the London stage, and led to a surprising understanding.
14 Chapter 2. We are Here, But Not Here: Thomas William Tobin's Proteus, the illusion that introduced the ingenious principle of the looking-glass.
20 Chapter 3. The Sphynx Has Arrived: Colonel Stodares astonishing illusion, the second of Tobins creations, and the 3-legged, 4-legged table.
26 Chapter 4 Macbeth’s Head,: Tobin and Pepper's little-known achievement, an important creation and a desperate bit of theatrics.
31 Chapter 5. The Gorilla's Den: John Nevil Maskelyne’s inventive creations and John Nevil Maskelyne's inventive history of his creations.
38 Chapter 6. Philosophies and Sightlines: The varied uses of the silvered mirror, the physics, the materials and the optical sweeping-up of loose ends.
44 Chapter 7. Morritt's Creations: The Yorkshire Conjurer, the secrets he knew, the secrets we suspect, and the secrets we were never given.
60 Chapter 8. All Done with Mirrors: The principles led to a number of wonders, and a number of truly terrible ideas.
65 Chapter 9. Inventing, Backwards: In which the redoubtable wizards Morritt and Devant are discovered in the process of invention.
59 A Demonstration of Mirror Principles
69 Notes and Sources