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Magic in Panama, 1681 (2011)
- lowdose 7y agoTalking about magic I came across this one last week. Robert Houdin hired by Napoleon III to perform a magic trick in Africa to convince the local tribes France magic was stronger than theirs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Eug%C3%A8ne_Robert-Houdin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Eug%C3%A8ne_Robert-Houdin https://www.amazon.com/Hiding-Elephant-Magicians-Impossible-Disappear/dp/0786714018 https://www.amazon.com/Hiding-Elephant-Magicians-Impossible-...
- dwnvoted2hell 7y agoIt's a shame really that the tribes' knowledge wasn't studied more under the scientific method. Maybe some of the methods could have been usefully preserved. Bloodletting at the point of a severe infection is nothing new, but maybe some of the predictive forecasting was rather amazing for its time.