书目名称 | The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke | 编辑 | Otto Guericke | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Otto von Guericke has been called a neglected genius,overlooked by most modern scholars, scientists, and laymen. He wrotehis .E.xperimenta Nova. in the seventeenth century in Latin,a dead language for the most part inaccessible to contemporaryscientists. Thus isolated by the remoteness of his time and his meansof communication, von Guericke has for many years been denied therecognition he deserves in the English speaking world. Indeed, thecentury in which he lived witnessed the invention of six important andvaluable scientific instruments -- the microscope, the telescope, thependulum clock, the barometer, the thermometer, and the air pump. VonGuericke was associated with the development of the last three ofthese; he also experimented with a rudimentary electric machine. Thushis .Experimenta. .Nova. was an important work, heralding theemerging empiricism of seventeenth century science, and merits thisfirst English translation of von Guericke‘s .magnus opus... | 出版日期 | Book 1994 | 关键词 | instruments; language; moon; planet; science; telescope | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2010-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-4888-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-2010-4Series ISSN 0066-6610 Series E-ISSN 2215-0307 | issn_series | 0066-6610 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994 |
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