Thinking about Nothing: Otto von Guericke and the Magdeburg Experiments on the Vacuum

By Thomas E. Conlon

Thinking about Nothing contains, in addition to a new translation from the Latin of Otto von Guericke's most important writings, an account of his life and a perspective on his thought. Amid the turmoil of the Thirty Years War and the pressures of life as politician and diplomat, he was a pioneer investigator of the nature of space and the atmosphere, and was, most famously, the inventor of the vacuum pump.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447839161
• ISBN13: 9781447839163
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"