Magne, PIERRE

1806-1879. French Minister of Public Works 1851, and of Finance 1855-63, 1867-69, and 1873-74. Magnesia. 1. City of Lydia, near Mt. Sipylus; now Mani a. Here the Scipios defeated Antiochus of Syria 190 B.C. IMG:content-1205.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1206.png:[graphic][subsumed] Father Kircher's Magic Lantern (From an Engraving of the Seventeenth Century). the slide on the screen. The electric light is often used as the source of illumination: the instrument may then be called a photo-electric lantern. A modified form of this instrument for forming upon a screen images of opaque objects is called a megascope. The object is very brilliantly illuminated and placed in one of the conjugate foci of a double convex lens, the screen being in the other focus.