Show the lantern how many of us while using magic lanterns have wonder eil how they were first made indeed they are of very respectable antiquity As early as the seventeenth century a jesuit named kircher constructed one it was n very crude and as he was not unwilling to excite the fears of the persons who witnessed his exhibitions he called it a magic lantern and so it lias always been called there arc reasons to believe that the lantern was in use even earlier alian the seventeenth century and that tuo mysterious figures which the old as gers produced in the smoke of their mystic fires were produced in the same way as kircher produced his the smoke hiding the lantern |