Lot 264
Guericke (Otto von) Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, first edition, Amsterdam, Johannes Jansson Waesberge, 1672
Hammer Price: £8,000
Description
Guericke (Otto von) Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, first edition, additional engraved title, engraved portrait of the author (trimmed to almost touching at fore-edge), 23 engraved plates, of which 2 double-page, eighteenth century ink ownership inscription to letter-press title and front endpaper, a few short marginal tears and small paper flaws, none touching the text, occasional finger soiling, contemporary vellum, pastedowns torn, folio, Amsterdam, Johannes Jansson Waesberge, 1672.
⁂ A fine first edition copy of one of the great classics of science, of prime importance for electrical discovery, air-pressure and the vacuum pump. Guericke famously proved the existence of a vacuum through a dramatic experiment at Imperial Diet at Ratisbon in 1654, demonstrating how two teams of eight horses could not separate a bronze pair of hemispheres from which he had exhausted the air.
Description
Guericke (Otto von) Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, first edition, additional engraved title, engraved portrait of the author (trimmed to almost touching at fore-edge), 23 engraved plates, of which 2 double-page, eighteenth century ink ownership inscription to letter-press title and front endpaper, a few short marginal tears and small paper flaws, none touching the text, occasional finger soiling, contemporary vellum, pastedowns torn, folio, Amsterdam, Johannes Jansson Waesberge, 1672.
⁂ A fine first edition copy of one of the great classics of science, of prime importance for electrical discovery, air-pressure and the vacuum pump. Guericke famously proved the existence of a vacuum through a dramatic experiment at Imperial Diet at Ratisbon in 1654, demonstrating how two teams of eight horses could not separate a bronze pair of hemispheres from which he had exhausted the air.