17th-century German scientist, inventor, and politician
Otto von Guericke
Otto von Guericke, engraving after a portrait by Anselm van Hulle (1601–1674)
Born
Otto Gericke
November 30, 1602 (1602-11-30)
Magdeburg, Archbishopric of Magdeburg, Holy Roman Empire
Died
May 21, 1686 (1686-05-22) (aged 83)
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
Nationality
German
Known for
Vacuum
Vacuum pump
Electrostatic generator
Magdeburg hemispheres
Anemoscope
Dasymeter
Scientific career
Fields
Physicist, politician
Otto von Guericke (UK: /ˈɡɛərɪkə/GAIR-ik-ə,[1]US: /ˈɡ(w)ɛərɪkə,-ki/G(W)AIR-ik-ə, -ee,[2]German:[ˈɔtoːfɔnˈɡeːʁɪkə]ⓘ; spelled Gericke until 1666;[3] 30 November [O.S. 20 November] 1602 – 21 May [O.S. 11 May] 1686) 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 noteworthy contributions for the advancement of the Scientific Revolution.[4]
Von Guericke was a very pious man in the Dionysian tradition and attributed the vacuum of space to the creations and designs of an infinite divinity. Von Guericke described this duality "as something that 'contains all things' and is 'more precious than gold, without beginning and end, more joyous than the perception of bountiful light' and 'comparable to the heavens'."[5]
^"Guericke, Otto von". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press.[dead link]
^"Guericke". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
^Dewey, Joseph (2009). "Otto von Guericke". In Benson, A.K. (ed.). Great Lives from History: Inventors & Inventions. Vol. 2. Salem Press. pp. 480–482. ISBN 9781587655241.
^Fritz Krafft (April 17, 2013). Otto Von Guerickes Neue (Sogenannte) Magdeburger Versuche über den Leeren Raum. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-662-00949-9.
^Edward Grant (May 29, 1981). Much Ado about Nothing: Theories of Space and Vacuum from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge University Press. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-0-521-22983-8.
The OttovonGuericke University Magdeburg (German pronunciation) (Short: OVGU) is a public research university founded in 1993 and is located in Magdeburg...
Hanseatic League. One of the most notable people from the city is OttovonGuericke, famous for his experiments with the Magdeburg hemispheres. Magdeburg...
hemispheres were invented by German scientist and mayor of Magdeburg, OttovonGuericke, to demonstrate the air pump that he had invented and the concept...
May 1631 as an anti-personnel load, which, according to counselor OttovonGuericke, was one reason for the extreme violence of the victorious attackers...
behind a partial vacuum. The first vacuum pump was invented in 1650 by OttovonGuericke, and was preceded by the suction pump, which dates to antiquity. The...
commissioned into the Volksmarine as the 570 OttovonGuericke, named for 17th century Prussian scientist OttovonGuericke. Following the 1990 Reunification of...
Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik. The editor-in-chief is Holm Altenbach (OttovonGuericke University Magdeburg). According to the Journal Citation Reports,...
spam. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg demonstrated that citation counts on Google Scholar...
three years earlier by Gasparo Berti. 1650: Vacuum pump: Invented by OttovonGuericke. 1656: Pendulum clock: Invented by Christiaan Huygens. It was first...
(Otto-von-Guericke University) Magdeburg, Germany. Research at the Cognitive Biology Group, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Science, OVGU (Otto-von-Guericke...
spark. Around 1650, OttovonGuericke built a crude electrostatic generator: a sulphur ball that rotated on a shaft. When Guericke held his hand against...
move a column of water up and down a tube.: 4–5 German physicist OttovonGuericke (1602-1686) invented the vacuum pump, a device that can draw out air...
gradually expand, then contract upon descent. In 1650, German scientist OttovonGuericke constructed the first vacuum pump: a device that would further refute...
"Living and working in slums of Bombay." Working paper 36. Magdeburg: Otto-von-Guericke Universitat, Netherlands "Calls to scrap Dharavi makeover gain ground"...
Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. 1663 – According to his own account, OttovonGuericke completes his book Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de...
Further work was conducted in the 17th and early 18th centuries by OttovonGuericke, Robert Boyle, Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay. Later in the 18th century...
Victoria) was the editor-in-chief. In 2017 and 2018, Florian G. Kaiser (Otto-von-Guericke University) and Jeffrey Joireman (Washington State University) were...
incontestable experiments to have weight". Inspired by Torricelli, OttovonGuericke on 5 December 1660 found that air pressure was unusually low and predicted...
Torricelli in 1643, demonstration of the force of atmospheric pressure by OttovonGuericke using the Magdeburg hemispheres in 1656, laboratory experiments by...
made strong agreements with multiple German universities such as Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, University of Oldenburg and Brandenburg University...
University University of Mannheim LMU Munich University of Kaiserslautern Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg University of Oldenburg University of Osnabrück...
the "amber effect" (static electricity). In 1663, German physicist OttovonGuericke created the first electrostatic generator, which produced static electricity...
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