@article{595238, note = {Half-title: 'Gale's recreations'.}, author = {Gale, John,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/595238}, title = {Gale's cabinet of knowledge or miscellaneous recreations: containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural and metaphysical maxims, And Observations on select subjects of general Utility; with a series of easy, entertaining, and interesting mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments: including the most celebrated card deceptions ever exhibited. Together with about Seven Hundred Serious, Comic, and Humorous Queries, Paradoxes, &c. &c. with pertinent and ingenious answers, comprising the essence of The Lady's, Gentleman's, and Carnan's Diaries,-Martin's Philosophical Magazines,-Ozanam and Hooper's Recreations, &c. &c. (illustrated with copper-plate engravings.) To which is added a great number of originals. Likewise an appendix; containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings; With some curious definitions in optics. [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {printed for J. Wallis No. 46, Pater-Noster-Row, (by P. Norbury, New-Brentford),}, recid = {595238}, pages = {[4],xvi,363,[1]p.,plates ;}, address = {London :}, year = {1800}, }