Philip Ticknesse

The Speaking Figure and the Automaton Chess-player, Exposed and Detected

John Stockdale, London 1784.

Karl Gottlieb Windisch

Inanimate Reason or a Circumstantial Account of that Astonishing Piece of Mechanism M. de Kempelen's Chess-player

S. Bladon, London 1784.

Philip Astley

Natural Magic or Physical Amusements Revealed

Author, London 1785.

David Brewster

Letters on natural magic

Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, London 1883 (I ed. 1832).