Editing Otto von Guericke (section)

=== Primary publications ===

There are three bodies of text, that contain systematic treatises on von Guericke's scientific work.
*1. Friar [[Gaspar Schott]]'s 1657 work ''Mechanica Hydraulico-pneumatica'', originally intended as a brief guide to the hydraulic and pneumatic instruments in [[Athanasius Kircher]]'s Roman museum, an appendix added by Schott, is a detailed account of Guericke's experiments on vacuums.<ref name="BeeleyScriba2014">{{cite book|author1=Philip Beeley|author2=Christoph J. Scriba|title=Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703): Volume IV (1672-April 1675)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fGoFBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA316|date=31 July 2014|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-103069-7|pages=316–}}</ref>
*2. Friar Gaspar Schott's 1664 ''[[Technica Curiosa]]'', with appendix that contains a reupload of the 1657 account plus more recent material from Guericke.<ref name="BeeleyScriba2014"/>
*3. Otto von Guericke's ''Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio'' of 1672, published upon Guericke's initiative.<ref name="BeeleyScriba2014"/>
The scientific studies and related experiments contained in the above works may be grouped under three topics, to each of which the following books of ''Experimenta Nova'' are dedicated:
* Book II: The Nature of Space and the Possibility of the Void
* Book III: The Experimental Work on the Production of Vacua, The Pressure of Air and the Earth's Atmosphere
* Book IV: The Investigation into Cosmic Potencies.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.sophiararebooks.com/pages/books/3763/otto-von-guericke/experimenta-nova-ut-vocantur-magdeburgica-de-vacuo-spatio-primum-a-r-p-gaspare-schotto-nunc-vero-ab |title=GUERICKE, Otto von. |date= 3 July 2020 |publisher= SOPHIA RARE BOOKS |access-date=6 July 2020}}</ref>
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File:Von Guericke-1.jpg|1672 copy of "''Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio''"
File:Von Guericke-3.jpg|Title page to "''Experimenta Nova''"
File:Von Guericke-2.jpg|Title page illustration in "''Experimenta Nova''"
File:Von Guericke-6.jpg|Index to "''Experimenta Nova''"
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