The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke

1994
ISBN: 978-94-010-4888-0
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 137, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées

Otto von Guericke has been called a neglected genius, overlooked by most modern scholars, scientists, and laymen. He wrote his in the seventeenth century in Latin, a dead language for the most part inaccessible to contemporary scientists. Thus isolated by the remoteness of his time and his means of communication, von Guericke has for many years been denied the recognition he deserves in the English speaking world. Indeed, the century in which he lived witnessed the invention of six important and valuable scientific instruments -- the microscope, the telescope, the pendulum clock, the barometer, the thermometer, and the air pump. Von Guericke was associated with the development of the last three of these; he also experimented with a rudimentary electric machine. Thus his was an important work, heralding the emerging empiricism of seventeenth century science, and merits this first English translation of von Guericke's .

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guericke, Otto Von

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomische Beobachtung: Observatorien, Instrumente, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Book I The System of the World, According to the More Common Philosophical Theories.- Book II Empty Space.- Book III Individual Experiments.- Book IV Mundane Virtues and Other Allied Subjects.- Book V The Sphere of Land and Sea and Its Companion, the Moon.- Book VI Our Planetary System.- Book VII The Fixed Stars and the Boundary Which Confines Them.- Index of Subjects.