Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards
Rational Recreations is a late eighteenth-century English book of scientific amusements by the physician William Hooper, printed in London in 1787 for home readers and parlour experimenters. Its plates are engraved diagrams of apparatus, from pumps and siphons to a gun, a bell-jar setup and geometric figures, drawn in clean line with lettered keys and figure numbers.
