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Guericke in a sentence
Using Guericke
- In the example corpus, guericke often appears in combinations such as: von guericke, guericke was, guericke had.
Context around Guericke
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 10 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Guericke
- In this selection, "guericke" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, von, improved, built, demonstrated and showed stand out and add context to how "guericke" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include boyle improved guericke s design and 1663 von guericke can be. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "guericke" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with guericke
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Guericke demonstrated the force of air pressure with dramatic experiments. (10 words)
The first such device was made by Otto von Guericke in 1654. (12 words)
Robert Boyle improved Guericke's design and conducted experiments on the properties of vacuum. (14 words)
Early thermodynamics A precursor of the engine was designed by the German scientist Otto von Guericke who, in 1650, designed and built the world's first vacuum pump and created the world's first ever vacuum known as the Magdeburg hemispheres experiment. (42 words)
Accepting the claim of the preface to the Experimenta Nova that the entire work had been essentially completed before March 1663, von Guericke can be fairly credited with inventing a primitive form of frictional electrical machine before 1663. (38 words)
In setting out his own view, von Guericke, while acknowledging the influence of previous philosophers such as Lessius (but not Gassendi ), makes it clear that he considers his thinking on this topic to be original and new. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Accepting the claim of the preface to the Experimenta Nova that the entire work had been essentially completed before March 1663, von Guericke can be fairly credited with inventing a primitive form of frictional electrical machine before 1663.
All of von Guericke's work on the vacuum and air pressure is described in Book III of the Experimenta Nova (1672).
Although the Experimenta Nova does contain correspondence from 1665, there is no reason to doubt von Guericke's assertion that the work was essentially finished by March 1663.
Around 1650, Otto von Guericke built a crude electrostatic generator : a sulphur ball that rotated on a shaft.
Early thermodynamics A precursor of the engine was designed by the German scientist Otto von Guericke who, in 1650, designed and built the world's first vacuum pump and created the world's first ever vacuum known as the Magdeburg hemispheres experiment.
Fr. Schott goes on to quote a subsequent letter of von Guericke of August 4, 1657 in which he states that he now had carried out the experiment, at considerable cost, with 12 horses.
Guericke demonstrated the force of air pressure with dramatic experiments.
Guericke showed that substances were not pulled by a vacuum, but were pushed by the pressure of the surrounding fluids.
He declared a debt of gratitude to German scientist Otto von Guericke for his early studies of electricity.
In 1664, his work again appeared in print, again through the good offices of Fr. Schott, the first section of whose book Technica Curiosa, entitled Mirabilia Magdeburgica, was dedicated to von Guericke's work.
In 1677 von Guericke, after repeated requests, was reluctantly permitted to step down from his civic responsibilities.
In setting out his own view, von Guericke, while acknowledging the influence of previous philosophers such as Lessius (but not Gassendi ), makes it clear that he considers his thinking on this topic to be original and new.
Other research In the Experimenta Nova, Book III, Chapter 20, von Guericke reports on a barometer he had constructed and its application to weather forecasting.
Robert Boyle improved Guericke's design and conducted experiments on the properties of vacuum.
Robert Boyle improved Guericke's design and with the help of Robert Hooke further developed vacuum pump technology.
Schimank p. 69 reproduces von Guericke's petition to Leopold requesting the prefix "von" and the change of spelling.
Stimulated by the interest taken in his work, von Guericke was scientifically very active in the decade after 1654.
The 1660s saw the final collapse of Magdeburg's aim, to which von Guericke had devoted some twenty years of diplomatic effort, of achieving the status of a Free City within the Holy Roman Empire.
The earliest reference to the celebrated Magdeburg hemispheres experiment is on p. 39 of the Technica Curiosa, where Fr. Schott notes that von Guericke had mentioned them in a letter of July 22, 1656.
The first such device was made by Otto von Guericke in 1654.
Common combinations with guericke
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