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Title: so hard to understand
Review: The prose in this book is so choppy that it is incoherent and impossible to follow (case in point: "Mariotte was interested in the physics of gases and in the sound of the trumpet; he wrote The Treatise on Percussion"). It was nice to see illusions grouped by type but there is not much explicit discussion of how and why each illusion constitutes a member of that class. I also found that there were far too many examples and far too little discussion of the science behind the examples. If you are looking for a book with all kinds of random snippets of interesting illusions, this is good (maybe as a coffee table book?).
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