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The Invention of the Air Pump and the Electric Generator
GUERICKE, Otto von. Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio Prim R. P. Gaspare Schotto.... Amsterdam, J. Janssonium a Waesberge, 1672.
Contemporary Dutch vellum over boards
$65,000 First edition, and a fine copy, of one of the great classics of science. This book is notable for its importance in the fields of electricity and air pressure and for its account of the discovery of the vacuum pump. From the collection of the great historian of science, Pierre Duhem.
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