He was angered by the alleged deception and posted the following satire in order to persuade people to avoid the performance.
[2] As a result of the extravagant claims that were posted, Philadelphia left Göttingen without giving any exhibitions.
[3] The Avertissement reads as follows: Warning All fanciers of supernatural physics will, by this poster, be made known that a few days ago, the world-famous magician Philadelphus Philadelphia, who has been mentioned by Cardanus in his book on the nature of the supernatural by calling him the envy of Heaven and Hell, has arrived here on the ordinary mail coach, although it would have been equally easy for him to have come through the air.
He is the same person who, in 1482, in an open marketplace in Venice, cast a coil of twine into the air and climbed up until he was no longer seen.
Beginning on the ninth of January of this year, he will present, openly and secretly, to the public's eyes, his one-Thaler tricks in the local department store.
He had the graciousness to perform these same tricks to great applause before all of the high potentates in all four parts of the world.
He can be seen here every day, at all hours, except not on Mondays and Thursdays, when he expels melancholy thoughts at the venerable Congress of his countrymen in Philadelphia.
2) He takes two ladies from the audience, positions them with their heads on the table and lets them turn their legs upward.
Schopenhauer wrote: The unanimous assent which the antinomy, on the other hand, has met with, may in the end spring from the fact that some people regard with inward gratification the point where the understanding is really supposed to be brought to a standstill, since it has hit upon something that at the same time is and is not, and accordingly they actually have here before them the sixth trick of Philadelphia in Lichtenberg's broadsheet.