Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception

by Jim Ottaviani

Levitation tells the story of the most dazzling gravity-defying illusion ever performed on stage, and features a cast of characters that seems almost too good to be true: John Neville Maskelyne, the very proper scientist-magician and the trick's inventor; Harry Kellar, the brash American who fails to buy the illusion, so steals it instead; Howard Thurston, the handsome and charismatic performer who inherits the act from Kellar; and Guy Jarrett,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978803701
• ISBN13: 9780978803704
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: G.T. Labs
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.6" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 13 to 16 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 11