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Magdeburg hemispheres
In 1657, in front of the Imperial Diet in Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke set up a famous and spectacular experiment witnessed by vast crowds of local residents.Von Guericke used two perfectly matching hollow bronze half-spheres measuring about 50 centimeters in diameter. He fastened them together tightly [...]
Creator
- Europeana
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Subject
- Pneumatics
Type of item
- Multimedia
Creator
- Europeana
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Subject
- Pneumatics
Type of item
- Multimedia
Providing institution
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Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Creation date
- 2010
- 2010
Identifier
- urn:imss:multimedia:500014
Extent
- 68 sec.
Format
- video/flv
Language
- eng
- ita
Is referenced by
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/object/SinglebarrelExhaustingCompressingPump.html
Year
- 2010
Providing country
- Italy