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October 22, 2018

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Otto von Guericke
Experimenta nova . . .
Amsterdam, 1672

German engineer Otto von Guericke is credited with inventing the vacuum pump, which he used to conduct groundbreaking experiments in physics. This copy of his book Experimenta nova (New experiments) previously belonged to scientist and collector Herbert McLean Evans, who influenced Bern Dibner in his collecting.

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