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[View of buildings lining the banks of an unidentified body of water, possibly Jones Falls.]
[Exterior view of building with apparatus attached for experiment intended to create a vacuum by draining water from a globe attached to the top of the apparatus]
Summary
Illus. in: P. Gasparis Schotti ... Technica curiosa, sive Mirabilia artis, libris XII comprehensa .... Norimbergæ : Sumptibus J. A. Endteri, & Wolfgangi junioris hæredum, excudebat J. Hertz, typographus herbipol., 1664.
Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 156.
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air pressure
experiments
scientific equipment
book illustrations
engravings
latin
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exterior view
apparatus
experiment
vacuum
water
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gaspar schott
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Date
1850 - 1950
Contributors
Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666.
Source
Library of Congress
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