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Beautiful old book on Ebay- Magical Experiments: Science in play!

Meredith Scheff — Thu, 03/04/2010 - 14:12

I ran across this book while on ebay while looking for, well, egg cups. At first I only kinda wanted this book, but now I really really want this book. The tite of the auction says 'occult, rare, magician' which turned me off- those tags are way overused and rarely true. On further examination, however, it's actually more about using 'magic tricks' to teach basic scientific principles.It's beautifully illustrated, and even has a loving dedication to the authors son, encouraging him to love science as he did.

Just looking at it fills me with a glee. I want to be able to pull it down from my shelf, giggle at the fun, and love the F out of it.

 

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MAGICAL EXPERIMENTS OR SCIENCE IN PLAY

scrollsawcharlie — Thu, 03/10/2011 - 11:50

I have listed a copy of this book for sale on eBay. here is the link if anyone is interested.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280642202197&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_3162wt_932
Thank you

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Thank you! Anyone interested

Jake von Slatt — Thu, 03/10/2011 - 12:00

Thank you! Anyone interested in seeking a copy of this book should definitely click through to LuxMentis' blog: http://luxmentis.com/blog/?p=71

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Well Jake, I guess now you'll

Sukotto — Wed, 06/23/2010 - 06:49

Well Jake, I guess now you'll have to implement comment voting now so we can vote down obnoxious turd comments like this one from "Rebecca"

:-(

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Hey I know! it's a constant

Jake von Slatt — Wed, 06/23/2010 - 08:43

Hey I know! it's a constant battle but the community isn't big enough yet for comment voting so I'm policing by hand. That user has been blocked and IP banned but I'll leave the comment in question up since we've referenced it.  HTML tags are always filtered in comments unless I think they're worthy so it will do them no good.

The weird thing is that all of this bullshit comes from U.K. companies, it's like they are all using the 2003 revision of "SEO for Dummies."

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I'm not sure if was a pebkac

Sukotto — Wed, 06/23/2010 - 09:39

I'm not sure if was a pebkac error or a bug... but I clicked reply under the offending comment, was sent to a login page, and then to the comment form. After I submitted I had somehow made a root comment instead of a reply.

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Great book...but ignore what is happening at eBay

LuxMentis — Sat, 03/06/2010 - 18:36

This is a wonderful book. I keep it about and have sold 4-5 copies over the last 4-5 years. All +/- $100. I just posted about this ebay sale as it has triggered some funny behavior (see, http://luxmentis.com/blog/?p=71). I'd be happy to track down another copy for your...just let me know.

Also, as a short term fix and if you principally want it for the experiments (which, mind you, are great fun), there appears to be a digital copy available for $7 (see my post for the link).

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Thank you! Any one interested

Jake von Slatt — Sun, 03/07/2010 - 09:10

Thank you! Anyone interested in seeking a copy of this book should definitely click through to LuxMentis' blog: http://luxmentis.com/blog/?p=71

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Also on Amazon

jhines0042 — Fri, 03/05/2010 - 12:21

http://www.amazon.com/Magical-Experiments-Science-Play-Arthur/dp/B000M62GJA/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267809648&sr=8-6

Joe H.

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Other sources

ranthoron — Thu, 03/04/2010 - 17:24

Hmmm.... Half a dozen volumes on abebooks, enough for everyone here...

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Link?

Sukotto — Fri, 03/05/2010 - 11:05

I'm interested, would you post a link please?

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Link!

ranthoron — Fri, 03/05/2010 - 11:15

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=arthur+good&tn=magical+experiments
Dropped down to one...

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