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	Otto von Guericke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Otto von Guericke (originally spelled Gericke) [ˈgeʁike] (November 20, 1602 – May 11, 1686 (Julian calendar); November 30, 1602 – May 21, 1686 (Gregorian calendar)) was a German scientist, inventor, and politician.
		With his experiments Guericke disproved the hypothesis of "horror vacui", that nature abhors a vacuum, that for centuries was a problem for philosophers and scientists.
		Guericke proved that substances were not pulled by a vacuum, but were pushed by the pressure of the surrounding fluids.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_von_Guericke (388 words)

	Otto von Guericke Biography \| World of Invention
		Otto von Guericke was born on November 20, 1602, in Magdeburg, Germany.
		Guericke created a vacuum on the opposite side of the piston and the men were unable to keep the external air pressure from pushing the pistons into the cylinder.
		Guericke rotated a sulfur sphere on a shaft.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/otto-von-guericke-woi (705 words)

	The Galileo Project
		As a convinced Copernican, von Guericke was concerned with the nature of space and the possibility of empty space and the means of action across it.
		Apparently the son arranged the construction of the Wettermännchen, and that incident raises the speculation that the clientage of von Guericke, who was a wealthy men, was performed for the benefit of his son.
		Von Guericke was an important man in rebuidling the city, both its fortifications and its bridges over the Elbe.
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	Otto von Guericke
		Otto Gericke was born as son of a patrician family resident for three centuries in Magdeburg.
		Guericke family inherited extensive property both in the city and in the countryside around it.
		Otto von Guericke, demonstrated experimentally the capacity of the atmosphere to do work and decisively refuted the long-held notion that it was impossible for a vacuum to exist.
	www.corrosion-doctors.org /Biographies/GuerickeBio.htm (453 words)

	Guericke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Since he had lost everything for the moment, Guericke became a military engineer in the army of Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden, though the locale of the work was mostly Magdeburg, and then when control of the city passed into the hands of the Elector of Saxony in 1635, in his service.
		Guericke studied astronomy and as a convinced Copernican, von Guericke was concerned with the nature of space and the possibility of empty space and the means of action across it.
		Von Guericke had earlier prepared a large hollow sphere from which he had removed the air using a vacuum pump of his invention.
	chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/guericke.html (1638 words)

	Horror Vacui? - Otto von Guericke (1602-1686) - IMSS
		The descendent of a well-off family in Magdeburg, he studied Law at the university of Lipsia (1617-1620), Helmstedt (1620) and Jena (1621-1622), then going to Leida, where in addition to his legal studies, he went to course of mathematics and started to deal with engineering problems.
		Despite the fact that his time was largely filled by the burdens of public life, von Guericke continued to interest himself in experimental science, and was soon aware of the new developments in the debate in physics related to the innovative cartesian theories, and to the barometric experiments of Torricelli.
		To put Descartes' "plenist" thesis, which denied the existence of the vacuum, to the test, von Guericke thought up and constructed - alongside many failures - various models of pumps to produce a vacuum.
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	Otto von Guericke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Otto (1602-1686) was a natural philosopher who served as the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany.
		In 1657, Guericke carried out a demonstration for which he became famous: several teams of horses could not pull apart two joined hemispheres when the air within had been evacuated.
		Otto's electricity-generating machine consisted of a globe of sulfur fixed on a spindle, and pressed with the dry surface of the hands while being made to rotate.
	campus.murraystate.edu /tsm/tsm118/Appendix/guericke.htm (355 words)

	Otto Von Guericke Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The German physicist Otto von Guericke (1602-1686), known for his invention of the vacuum pump, also investigated the properties of air and the atmosphere.
		Otto von Guericke was born on November 20, 1602, in Magdeburg (then in Prussian Saxony and now Germany).
		When Guericke rubbed the rotating globe with a dry hand, he observed the attraction and repulsion of feathers near it, as well as other effects which are today recognized as electrical in origin.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/otto-Von-guericke (698 words)

	Otto Von Guericke - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		OTTO VON GUERICKE (1602-1686), German experimental philosopher, was born at Magdeburg, in Prussian Saxony, on the 10th of November 1602.
		Having studied law at Leipzig, Helmstadt and Jena, and mathematics, especially geometry and mechanics, at Leiden, he visited France and England, and in 1636 became engineer-in-chief at Erfurt.
		He is also the author of a Geschichte der Belagerung and Eroberung von Magdeburg.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Otto_Von_Guericke (623 words)

	Otto Von Guericke Biography \| scit_031234_package.xml
		Otto von Guericke, a German aristocrat and politician, made important contributions to two of the liveliest areas of physical investigation in the seventeenth century.
		Von Guericke was born in Magdeburg, a prosperous city in central Germany, into a wealthy and politically influential family.
		Guericke's most famous demonstration used a well-sealed pair of copper hemispheres that, when evacuated, could not be pulled apart even by powerful workhorses.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/otto-von-guericke-scit-031234 (644 words)

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		Otto von Guericke - 1602 - 1686 -
		Very importants, before the steam engine invention, were the spectaculars experiments made by Otto Von Guericke in 1654 at the Imperial Diet in Magdeburg.
		Von Guericke in 1650 invented the air pump
	www.tau.ac.il /~phchlab/experiments/vacuum/guericke.html (216 words)

	Otto von Guericke and the First (?) Electrostatic Generator
		Otto von Guericke and his sulfur globe (1672)
		Otto von Guericke wanted to discuss the Earth as an electric, so he made a sulfur globe.
		Some scholars credit von Guericke with the first electrostatic generator; others credit Hauksbee, because his is the generator that led to today.
	www.thebakken.org /artifacts/Guericke.htm (306 words)

	Adventure Science Center \| Air and Space Months
		Von Guericke, inventor of the air pump, placed two metal hemispheres together to make a complete sphere twenty inches in diameter.
		Von Guericke thus proved that vacuums were possible and went on to speculate that the space between the stars was also a vacuum.
		Witness the official opening of the new Otto von Guericke exhibit by Mayor Purcell, Mayor Dr. Lutz Trümper and the Commissioner for Culture and Sports Dr. Rüdiger Koch and members of the Otto von Guericke Society of Magdeburg.
	www.adventuresci.com /events/2004/space (899 words)

	Otto von Guericke - Wikipedia
		Von Guericke studierte von 1617 bis 1619 an der Universität in Leipzig an der Artistenfakultät, einige Wochen in Helmstedt und im Fachstudium Jura an der Universität Jena von 1621 bis 1623 sowie 1623 bis 1624 in Leiden Jura und Festungsbau.
		Guericke bewies, dass Stoffe nicht vom Vakuum angesaugt werden, sondern vom Umgebungsdruck in das Vakuum gedrückt werden.
		Guericke setzte ein Barometer zur Wettervorhersage ein und war damit Wegbereiter der Meteorologie.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_von_Guericke (964 words)

	Guericke, Otto von - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Guericke, Otto von, 1602-86, German physicist, noted for his study of pneumatics.
		He invented (1660) a machine to generate electricity from the friction of the hand held against a rotating sulfur ball; he also predicted the periodicity of comets.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-guericke.html (292 words)

	Otto von Guericke
		Otto von Guericke lebte von 1602 bis 1686, also in der Zeit des Dreißigjährigen Krieges, der in den Jahren von 1618 bis 1648 weite Teile Mitteleuropas verwüstete.
		Guericke erkannte als erster die Bedeutung des Experiments für die Physik und gilt als Begründer der Experimentalphysik in Deutschland.
		Das ständige Guericke-Museum in der Lukasklause in Magdeburg lädt zu einer ganzen Reihe von Extraveranstaltungen anlässlich des Jubiläumsjahres ein.
	www.harz-online.de /guericke (516 words)

	Otto von Guericke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Er studierte Jura an den Universitäten von Leipzig und Jena sowie Mathematik an der Universität Leiden.
		Angeregt von den Experimenten Blaise Pascals, Galileo Galileis und Evangelista Torricellis beschäftigte er sich mit den Eigenschaften der Luft, der Erforschung des Luftdruckes und der Existenz und Erzeugung eines Vakuums.
		Von Guericke beschäftigte sich neben der Pneumatik auch mit anderen Gebieten der Naturwissenschaften und mit Naturphilosophie.
	www.felge-md.de /md/ovg.htm (229 words)

	Guericke Otto von - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Guericke Otto von - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Guericke, Otto von (1602-1686), German physicist, born in Magdeburg.
		In 1654 the German physicist Otto von Guericke proved that a vacuum...
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	Von Guericke
		In Experimenta Nova, Guericke proved the existence of a vacuum through his famous experiment at Magdeburg (illustrated by one of the double-page plates - see below), in which two hemispheres of copper were fitted together, the air evacuated, and two teams of horses set to pull them apart, which they could not do.
		To create the vacuum, Guericke invented the air pump, and in the series of experiments that followed he demonstrated the elasticity and weight of air.
		The experimental discoveries were in fact the consequence of Guericke's profound Copernican cosmological views on the nature and composition of space, which are set forth fully in this work.
	www.sparkmuseum.com /BOOK_GUERICKE.HTM (205 words)

	Horror Vacui? - Otto von Guericke (1602-1686) - IMSS
		Otto von Guericke, Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica De Vacuo Spatio, Amsterdam 1672, frontespizio
		Nonostante il suo tempo fosse largamente assorbito dalla vita pubblica e dai relativi oneri, von Guericke continuò, comunque, ad occuparsi di scienza sperimentale, e venne presto a conoscenza dei nuovi sviluppi del dibattito fisico connessi alle innovative teorie cartesiane e agli esperimenti barometrici di Torricelli.
		E' nell'ambito di questi interessi che, nel 1657, von Guericke realizzò il suo più famoso esperimento.
	www.imss.firenze.it /vuoto/igueri.html (329 words)

	Otto von Guericke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He attended the city school to learn read and write, and he was tought additional private lessons.
		Thus, he invented the water barometer and did research with a rotating sulphur sphere.
		In the same year he also travelled to Berlin to demonstrate his experiment with the Magdeburg hemispheres to the German Elector Friedrich Wilhelm.
	www.uni-magdeburg.de /magdeburg/guericke_eng.html (376 words)

	Amazon.com: The New (so-called) Magdeburg Experiments: Translation and Introduction by Margaret G.F. Ames ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Otto von Guericke has been called a neglected genius, overlooked by most modern scholars, scientists, and laymen.
		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.
		Von Guericke was associated with the development of the last three of these; he also experimented with a rudimentary electric machine.
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	Autoren bei Harri Deutsch: Otto von Guericke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Mit seiner Erfindung der Luftpumpe wies der deutsche Naturphilosoph und Ingenieur Otto von Guericke (1602-1686) nach, daß ein Vakuum tatsächlich existiert und auch experimentell herzustellen ist.
		Guericke entdeckte die Pumpfähigkeit der Luft und beschrieb die Abnahme des Luftdruckes mit der Höhe.
		Als Ratsherr und Ingenieur seiner Heimatstadt Magdeburg beteiligte er sich an deren Wiederaufbau nach den Wirren des 30jährigen Krieges und vertrat seine Stadt in 20 Jahren bei vielen diplomatischen Missionen.
	www.harri-deutsch.de /verlag/titel/guericke/a00_3059.htm (132 words)

	AllRefer.com - Otto von Guericke (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Otto von Guericke (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Otto von Guericke[O´tO fun gA´riku] Pronunciation Key, 1602–86, German physicist, noted for his study of pneumatics.
		He carried out his most important researches while burgomaster (1646–81) of Magdeburg.
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	Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
		It aims to cut a clear and efficiently-structured figure with its main focus of expertise in the traditional areas of engineering, the natural sciences and medicine.
		It also views economics and management as well as the arts and humanities as essential disciplines for a modern university in the information age.
		In the spirit of Otto von Guericke, after whom it is named, the University sees its prime task as raising the standard of education and scholarship through teaching and research.
	www.uni-magdeburg.de /Otto_von_Guericke_University_Magdeburg-lang-en.html (233 words)

	Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg was founded 1993, and is one of the youngest universities in Germany.
		It is named after the physicist (and mayor of Magdeburg) Otto von Guericke, famous for his experiments with the Magdeburg hemispheres.
		This German university, college or other education institution article is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_von_Guericke_University_of_Magdeburg (104 words)

	International Programs - University of Kansas Medical Center
		The city is perhaps most famous for and the university was named after Otto von Guericke, who solved the question of the existence or non-existence of a vacuum.
		The experiment was demonstrated in Magdeburg for the first time in 1659, when sixteen horses tried in vain to pull apart evacuated hemispheres.
		When von Guericke opened the tap so that air could flow in, the hemispheres came apart.
	www.kumc.edu /international/exchange/99spring/magdeburg.html (1184 words)

	Biographies Info Science : Guericke Otto von
		Né le 20 décembre 1602, Otto von Guericke étudie d’abord à l’université de Leipzig, puis de Jena, le droit, et enfin à celle de Leiden, les mathématiques.
		Inspiré par les expérimentations sur la pression atmosphérique de scientifiques comme Pascal ou Torricelli, Guericke met au point la première pompe à air en 1650 et découvre que la lumière traverse le vide au contraire du son.
		Plus tard, Guericke invente, encore une première, une machine électrostatique composée d’un globe de soufre que l’on électrise en le frottant avec la main.
	www.infoscience.fr /histoire/biograph/biograph.php3?Ref=108 (233 words)

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