Like all scholars and researchers of the european age of enlightenment von guericke was a ver. 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 remarkable contributions for the advancement of the scientific revolution.

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Otto von guericke experiment. Otto von guericke has been called a neglected genius overlooked by most modern scholars scientists and laymen. Guericke concluded that air cannot be turned into water though. A fog then formed in the unevacuated flask.

He wrote his experimenta nova in the seventeenth century in latin a dead language for the most part inaccessible to contemporary scientists. Watson collection history of science. Illustration showing experiment of the magdeburg hemispheres in which horses could not pull apart the vacuum created within the hemispheres.

Otto von guericke was a german scientist inventor and politician. Otto von guericke a german physicist and engineer produced artificial clouds by releasing air from one flask into another one from which the air had been evacuated. 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.