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Vacvvm proscriptvm : dispvtatio physica

Casati, Paolo, 1617-1707 · 1649 · Genvae : Imprimi curabat Ioannes Dominicus Peri · 11 pictures

A 1649 Latin physics treatise by the Jesuit Paolo Casati, printed in Geneva, presenting its arguments on the vacuum through academic diagrams aimed at scholars and natural philosophers. The four woodcut-style figures show labelled glass tubes, a flask-like vessel with a central tube, and lettered cross-sections on a printed text background, offering a designer clean, schematic line drawings with dense hatching and strong letter-labelled geometry.

Physics -- Early works to 1800

Internet Archive · Fisher - University of Toronto · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library