Von Guericke's demonstration of the power of a

Von Guericke's demonstration of the power of a vacuum. 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

1672 Evacuated Experimenta Experiments Guericke Guerickes Hemispheres Magdeburg Nova Placed Pneumatics Sphere Suspended Vacuum Weights

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