
Title
Von Guericke's demonstration of the power of a vacuum
Caption
Von Guericke's demonstration of the power of a vacuum, c1654. [1672]. A platform was suspended from the bottom of an evacuated sphere made up of two copper hemispheres, and more and more weights were placed on it. One of a series of demonstrations made by von Guericke. From "Experimenta Nova ut vocantur Magdeburgica De Vacuo Spatio" ("New Magdeburg Experiments About the Vacuum"), Otto von Guericke, (Amsterdam, 1672). Engraving.
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