Hemispheres Collection

Schiaparellis two hemispheres of the planet Mars
The two hemispheres of the planet Mars as drawn by the Italian astronomer and historian of science, Giovanni Schiaparelli

Hemispheres

EARTHS HEMISPHERES 1870
Earths two hemispheres, one largely composed of land, the other predominantly of water Date: circa 1870

Magdeburg Hemispheres
In 1650 Otto von Guericke demonstrated that even a team of horses could not tug apart his hermetically sealed hemispheres from which the air had been evacuated

Otto Von Guericke / Worlds
OTTO VON GUERICKE German physicist, famous for his experiment of the Magdeburg hemispheres to demonstrate air pressure

Cartoon, Political Mathematicians, Shaking the Broad bottomd Hemispheres, by James Gillray. To that last Hope of the Country, the New Opposition

Guericke at Magdeburg
His celebrated vacuum experiment at Magdeburg : two teams of eight horses each are unable to pull the two hemispheres apart, though only a vacuum holds them together Date: 1650s

Lines of Latitude 1683
Showing Africa, Europe, Asia, part of Australia, the two hemispheres, the equator and the lines of Latitude. With Dutch text and listed as plate no.15 (?)

Lines of Longitude 1683
Showing Africa, Europe, Asia, South Pole and part of Australia, the two hemispheres, the equator and the lines of Longitude

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