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| Het natuurlyk tover-boek by Simon Witgeest, 1684 | |||||||
| 'Het
natuurlyk tover-boek' by Simon Witgeest, seems to have
been first published in 1684 (although some sources say
1679). The information on this page relating to the 1684
edition is taken from an online copy which can,
unfortunately, only be accessed through an academic
login. A reformatted and expanded second edition was published in 1686. All the items relating to paperfolding which appear in the 1684 edition also appear in the 1686 edition. The 1686 edition also contains a section explaining How to Drop a Strip of Paper to Land on One Edge, which I cannot find in the 1684 edition. ********** Analysis From the 1864 first edition
********** The Three Pieces Puzzle
********** The Cherries Puzzle
********** The Chinese Wallet
********** Jacob's Ladder The seventeenth century Dutch of this section is not easily amenable to translation but it seems to refer back to the diagram for the Chinese Wallet above and to say that additional boards and ribbons can be added so that there are six or eight in all. It also seems to describe the way in which one board can appear to fall from top to bottom of the design so that 'it appears to the ignorant to be a bit of magic'.
********** The Primitive Paper Banger
********** How to Find the Centre of a Circle
********** From the 1686 edition How to Drop a Strip of Paper to Land on One Edge
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