GUERICKE (Otto von). EXPERIMENTA Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio. Amstelodami. 1672.

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GUERICKE (Otto von)

EXPERIMENTA Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio. Primum à R.P. Gaspare Schotto, è Societate Jesu, & Herbipolitanae Academiae Matheseos Professore: Nunc verò ab ipso Auctore Perfectius edita, variisque aliis Experimentis aucta. Quibus accesserunt simul certa quaedam de Aeris Pondere circa Terram; de Virtutibus Mundanis, & Systemate Mundi Planetario; sicut & de Stellis Fixis, ac Spatio illo Immenso, quod tam intre quam extra eas funditur. Amstelodami: Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, 1672.

*-**, A-Z, Aa-Hh4; engraved title, [14], 244, [4] pp.; 2 folding eng.: il.; 295 mm. Full vellum; trimmed; engraved title with restorations; lacking author’s engraved portrait.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCIENTIFIC WORK, of prime importance in electrical discoveries, atmospheric pressure and the vacuum pump. The work describes the famous Magdeburg experiment to demonstrate the effects of atmospheric pressure, with multiple applications in meteorological studies. Very rare, important and valuable.

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