Un médecin se flatte d'avoir trouvé le moyen de rendre le corps humain invisible
L'Ami des lois, ou Mémorial politique et littéraire, N. 1586, Paris 1 january 1800, p. 3.
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Short news item (announced in the front-page summary as «Homme invisible») about a physician who claims to have found the way to make the human body invisible: he hangs a large transparent case of white glass from ribbons and makes the «invisible body» enter it; nothing can be seen inside the case, yet questions receive an answer, and if the invisible is ordered to cough or to breathe it can be heard. It is one of the earliest printed mentions of Doctor Laurent's experiment. Full transcription and Italian translation.
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