How magicians perform tricks

TRICKS LITERARY ILLUSIONS Performance magic and Victorian ...

C.3000 BCE FIST FIRST Ancient Mesopotamia develops ...

Modern science is inextricably linked to mathematics. I’m not just referring to numbers here – for example numerical measurements of things like time, speed and energy – although that’s an important p

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle

In August 1904, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and other New York newspapers could announce that a unique and novel attraction had come to town: Enigmarelle, the ‘Automaton Mystery’. This extraordinary cont