Foreword
Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." I believe that observation to be entirely accurate. Someone else later observed that "any technologist with sufficient knowledge is indistinguishable from a magician." With that in mind, what you have in your hands right now is a book on magic.
However, for as long as I've known the author of this book, Jonathan Lewis (some 11 years according to my research on Google going back over the newsgroup archives), he has never been content to accept "magic." He wants to know why something happens the way it does. So, fundamentally, his book is all about understanding:
understand v. understood, (-std) understanding, understands
- To perceive ...
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