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Collection |
The Quilters Hall of Fame |
Object Name |
Book |
Title |
The Eighth Book of Tan |
Author |
Loyd, Sam |
Published Date |
1968/ / |
Summary |
When Sam Loyd was a small child, during the 1840's a puzzle called the Chinese puzzle (which the French called the Chinese head-breaker, and we know today as tangram) was the popular craze throuout Asia, Europe and the United States. The Chinese puzzle involved fitting a square, a parallelogram and five trangles together to form various patterns - o which hundreds were in circulation. "Young people are fond of puzzles, and have often puzzled for hours over bits of wood called Chinese puzzles, to very little purpose," complained an English children's magazine in 1844. Nor were children alone in their fascination for the puzzle; among their elders, Napoleon Bonaparte, John Quincey Adams, Gustave Dor'e, Lewis Carroll and Edgar Allan Poe were all to have "puzzled for hours" over their tangrams. |
Publisher |
Dover Publications Inc |
Published Place |
New York |
Physical Description |
Paper back , 9 1/4 X 8", 32 pages |
Source |
Savage, Arnold |
Subjects |
Tangrams Chinese Puzzle |
Object ID |
2016.001.415 |