Magdeburg Hemispheres Collection

Experimenta nova. Overcoming the “horror vacui” with the “Magdeburg Hemispheres”, 1672
Experimenta nova. Overcoming the "horror vacui" with the "Magdeburg Hemispheres", 1672. Private Collection

Equilibrium and movement of the air, c1851. The effects of pneumatics and barometric pressure underwater and in the air, showing ballooning, a diving bell, divers in diving suits, an air gun

The Magdeburg Hemispheres (engraving)
3627894 The Magdeburg Hemispheres (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Magdeburg Hemispheres)

Historical Treasures in the Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, South Kensington (engraving)
1602503 Historical Treasures in the Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, South Kensington (engraving) by English School

Otto Von Guericke (chromolitho)
2802544 Otto Von Guericke (chromolitho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Otto Von Guericke)

Von Guerickes demonstration of the power of air pressure, 1672. A platform was suspended from the bottom of an evacuated sphere made up of two copper hemispheres

Otto von Guericke, German inventor, engineer and physicist, 1672. Portrait from his Eperimenta Nova, ut vocant, Magdeburgica, de vacuo Spatio (New Magdeburgian Experiments, as they are called)

Title page of Experimenta Nova, ut vocant, Magdeburgica, de vacuo Spatio, (Amsterdam, 1672). New Magdeburgian Experiments, as they are called, relating to a Vacuum) by Otto von Guericke (1606-1686)

Von Guerickes demonstration of the strength of air pressure, 1672. In the mid 17th century Otto von Guericke used an air-pump to remove the air from between two large close-fitting copper

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