Sujet
Title page of Experimenta Nova, ut vocant, Magdeburgica, de vacuo Spatio, (Amsterdam, 1672). Artist: Unknown
Légende
Title page of Experimenta Nova, ut vocant, Magdeburgica, de vacuo Spatio, (Amsterdam, 1672). New Magdeburgian Experiments, as they are called, relating to a Vacuum) by Otto von Guericke (1606-1686), German inventor, engineer and physicist, in which he published details of his invention of the air pump (1650), and his experiments on the power of air pressure. In the most famous of these, he used an air-pump to remove the air from between two large close-fitting copper hemispheres, known as Magdeburg hemispheres. The effect of the air pressure on the two hemispheres was such that two teams of 8 horses could not separate them. Once the air was let back into the enclosure, however, the hemispheres were parted easily.
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1672
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B65_321
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (2,5Mo) / 28,5cm x 43,9cm / 3369 x 5185 (300dpi)