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Lot 43:
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; título gravado, [14], 244, [4] pp.; 2 gravuras desdobráveis fora de texto: il.; 295 mm.
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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