Over the years, David Copperfield’s name has become synonymous with magic – and deservedly so. The multi-Emmy Award-winning illusionist is constantly inventing and utilizing new technology to develop ...

“David Copperfield’s History of Magic” conjures up the lives and illusions of magicians past and present as it also conjures up a look at Copperfield’s secret museum of magic. David Copperfield is the ...

‘Magic matters,” says David Copperfield. “It transports people into a world in which the impossible appears possible.” It was magic, after all, that transported him—David Seth Kotkin, born 65 years ...

Dr. Faustus in his Study. Engraving based on the original painting by Rembrandt, of the necromancer or astrologer who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. (Print ...

The word "magic" derives from the Latin, the Greek, the Old Persian, and, ultimately, the Proto-Indo-European magh, "to help, to be able, to be powerful," from which also derive the words "almighty," ...