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Summary
Illus. in: Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) magdeburgica de vacuo spatio primùm à R.P. Gaspare Schotto ... nunc verò ab ipso auctore perfectiùs edita, variisque aliis experimentis aucta. Amstelodami : Apud J. Janssonium à Waesberge, 1672.
Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 160.
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Date
01/01/1672
Contributors
Guericke, Otto von, 1602-1686.
Source
Library of Congress
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