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by dkelly
...on 28-OCT-06
Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805. . Aesthetical and philosophical essays : The Ghost-seer. The sport of destiny / by Friedrich Schiller ; edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. London ; New York : Robertson, Ashford and Bentley, c1902.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PT2473.A5 D6 1902b
Call#: Van Pelt Library PT2473.A5 D6 1902b
Ghost-Seer (1795) from Der Geisterseher (1789) has episode in which magic lanterns used to deceive credulous would-be ghost-seers
tagged early_technology
by dkelly
...on 27-OCT-06
Halleck, DeeDee. . Hand-held visions : the impossible possibilities of community media / DeeDee Halleck ; with a foreword by John Downing. [0823221008 (hardcover) ] New York : Fordham University Press, 2002.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1992.4.H36 A3 2002
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1992.4.H36 A3 2002
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tagged technology
by dkelly
...on 12-MAR-07
Joseph Haydn, eighteenth-century gentleman and genius : a translation with introduction and notes by Vernon Gotwals of the Biographische Notizen über Joseph Haydn, by G.A. Griesinger, and the Biographische Nachrichten von Joseph Haydn, by A.C. Dies. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1963.
Call#: Van Pelt Library ML410.H4 G713 1963
Call#: Van Pelt Library ML410.H4 G713 1963
"What can one say to a natural history or geogony set to music, where the objects pass before us as in a magic lantern...." (200)
Griesinger first in AmZ 11 (23 August 1809), includes extended quotation from Critique of Judgment on the unconscious nature of artistic genius
Chadwick, W. J. . Magic lantern manual / by W.J. Chadwick ; with one hundred practical illustrations. London : Frederick Warne and Co., [1878]
Call#: TR506 .C43 1878
Call#: TR506 .C43 1878
tagged magic_lantern
by dkelly
...on 10-NOV-06
Quigley, Martin, 1917- . Magic shadows : the story of the origin of motion pictures. Washington : Georgetown Univ. Press, 1948.
Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab 791.4 Q43
Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab 791.4 Q43
on the zoopraxiscope, edison's peep-show, other later 19th century innovations
tagged early_technology
by dkelly
...on 27-OCT-06
Shadows of the magic lamp : fantasy and science fiction in film / edited by George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin. [080931150X ] Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c1985.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.F36 S5 1985
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.F36 S5 1985
Has nothing to do with magic lantern.
tagged magic_lantern
by dkelly
...on 10-NOV-06