Item #001633 Mechanica Hydraulico-Pneumatica: Qua Praeterquam quod Aquei Elementi natura, proprietas, vis motrix, atque occultus cum aere conflictus, a primis fundamentis demonstratur; ... ; Opus Bipartitum ... Accessit Experimentum novum Magdeburgicum, quo vacuu. Gaspar SCHOTT.
Mechanica Hydraulico-Pneumatica: Qua Praeterquam quod Aquei Elementi natura, proprietas, vis motrix, atque occultus cum aere conflictus, a primis fundamentis demonstratur; ... ; Opus Bipartitum ... Accessit Experimentum novum Magdeburgicum, quo vacuu
Mechanica Hydraulico-Pneumatica: Qua Praeterquam quod Aquei Elementi natura, proprietas, vis motrix, atque occultus cum aere conflictus, a primis fundamentis demonstratur; ... ; Opus Bipartitum ... Accessit Experimentum novum Magdeburgicum, quo vacuu

The earliest detailed account of Guericke's Magdeburg experiments on vacuums

Mechanica Hydraulico-Pneumatica: Qua Praeterquam quod Aquei Elementi natura, proprietas, vis motrix, atque occultus cum aere conflictus, a primis fundamentis demonstratur; ... ; Opus Bipartitum ... Accessit Experimentum novum Magdeburgicum, quo vacuu.

Wuerzburg: Pigrin fuer Schoenwetter, 1657.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #001633

Half title dated 1658. 4to (206x165 mm) [32], 488, [16] pp., engraved title and 46 engraved plates on 45 plates (some folding) and numerous woodcut illustrations. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript; half title with repaired tear to corner, some worming, somewhat browned, 3 plates stronger. Some plates wrongly numbered, corrected in old manuscript, plate 1 bound facing p. 277 instead of p. 177. With the rare half title and the final leaf of directions to the binder. A good, broad margined copy.

Norman 1910; Dünnhaupt, S. 3811, 3; RISM B VI/2, 771; Eitner IX 66 f; De Backer/S. VII, 904; Poggendorff II, 838; Wheeler Gift I, 142; DSB 12, 210. FIRST EDITION of the first book by the Jesuit Gaspar Schott, a pupil of Athanasius Kircher. The first part is theoretical while the second part explodes into an extraordinary catalogue of machines illustrated by engraving and woodcut. 'Schott first published what had originally been intended as a brief guide to the hydraulic and pneumatic instruments in Kircher's Roman museum, expanding it into the first version of his Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica. But he added as an appendix a detailed account of Guericke's experiments on vacuums, the earliest published report of this work' (DSB).

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