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Otto von Guericke (UK: / ˈ ɡ ɛər ɪ k ə / GAIR-ik-ə, US: / ˈ ɡ (w) ɛər ɪ k ə,-k i / G(W)AIR-ik-ə, -ee, German: [ˈɔtoː fɔn ˈɡeːʁɪkə] ⓘ; spelled Gericke until 1666; 30 November [O.S. 20 November] 1602 – 21 May [O.S. 11 May] 1686) was a German scientist, inventor, mathematician and physicist.
- German
- Physicist, politician
5 days ago · Otto von Guericke (born Nov. 20, 1602, Magdeburg, Prussian Saxony [now in Germany]—died May 11, 1686, Hamburg) was a German physicist, engineer, and natural philosopher who invented the first air pump and used it to study the phenomenon of vacuum and the role of air in combustion and respiration.
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Lived 1602 – 1686. After surviving the worst massacre of the Thirty Years' War, Otto von Guericke made several historic scientific discoveries. Self-funded, he invented the vacuum pump, pioneered the concept of the absolute vacuum of space, measured the weight of air and used air pressure to make weather forecasts.
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Otto von Guericke was a German scientist, inventor, mathematician and physicist. His pioneering scientific work, the development of experimental methods and repeatable demonstrations on the physics of the vacuum, atmospheric pressure, electrostatic repulsion, his advocacy for the reality of "action at a distance" and of "absolute space" were ...
May 18, 2018 · The German jurist Otto von Gierke (1841-1921) was a leader of the Germanistic school of legal historians and is best known for his theory of the nature and role of associations, called the Genossenschaft theory. Otto von Gierke, born on Jan. 11, 1841, in Stettin, was the son of a Prussian official. He spent his early years in a family ...
The Magdeburg hemispheres were invented by German scientist and mayor of Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke, to demonstrate the air pump that he had invented and the concept of atmospheric pressure. Speculation varied about the contents of the sphere.
Otto Guericke, eigentlich Otto Gericke, ab 1666 von Guericke war ein deutscher Politiker, Jurist, Physiker und Erfinder. Bekannt ist er vor allem für seine Experimente zum Luftdruck mit den Magdeburger Halbkugeln. Er gilt als Begründer der Vakuumtechnik.
