Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio / primùm à r. p. Gaspare Schotto ... ; quibus accesserunt simul certa quaedam de aëris pondere circa terram; de virtutibus mundanis, & systemate mundi planetario; sicut & de stellis fixis, ac spatio illo immenso, quod tàm intra quam extra eas funditur
[16], 244, [6] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 33 cm., in slipcase 34 cm
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1672
Anno 1672
Notes:
Includes an added engraved t.p., a portrait frontispiece, one folded leaf of plates inserted between p. 26 and 27, and one double plate printed on two leaves inserted between p. 104 and 105. There are also numerous engravings printed on some of the text leaves.
Text printed in double columns.
Tail-piece; initials; side-notes.
A single leaf of errata (printed on the recto side, only) is bound in following the index.
Page 55 is misnumbered as 57; p. 119 is misnumbered as 117.
The appendix to Liber 5 (p. 184-197) has title: De cometis.
Includes index.
Signatures: *4 2*4 A-2G4 2H6 (-2H6).
Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 55
Also available online.
SCDIRB copy 39088016899528 has bookplates: 1. (armorial) W. E. Wilson, Daramona, Westmeath, with motto: Res non verba; 2. Ex libris Herbert McLean Evans; 3. Burndy Library ... gift of Julian Rogoff. Herald of Science no. 55.
SCDIRB copy has a contemporary vellum binding over paper boards with title inked on spine and red sponged edges. Housed in a modern red cloth 2-piece slipcase with gilt-tooled spine label.
SCDIRB copy has a green 6 Pfennig Deutsches Reich postage stamp engraved with Otto von Guericke's portrait (issued May 4, 1936; withdrawn from circulation Dec. 30, 1937) mounted on the front paste-down endpaper.
In slipcase.
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Contents:
Liber 1. De mundo ejusque systemate, secundum communiores philosophorum sententias -- Liber 2. De vacuo spatio -- Liber 3. De propriis experimentis -- Liber 4. De virtutibus mundanis & aliis rebus inde dependentibus -- Liber 5. De terraqueo globo & ejus sociâ quae vocatur luna -- Liber 6. De systemate mundi nostri planetario -- Liber 7. De stellis fixis & eo quod finit eas
