The Public Domain Review on Nostr: This wonderful 1805 book exposes the reality behind various tricks and illusions of ...

This wonderful 1805 book exposes the reality behind various tricks and illusions of the day, beginning with arguably the most enigmatic of the tricks listed, that of the “Learned Pig”, or as the excellent frontispiece refers to it “The Pig of Knowledge”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-expositor-or-many-mysteries-unravelled-including-that-of-the-learned-pig-1805?utm_content=buffer7f853&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer