The Alchemist of Air
Apr 01, 2022
1 minute
art by Mark Brewer
On a summer’s day in 1654, a crowd of curious scientists, farmers, and Emperor Ferdinand III of Germany gathered in a field. They were there to watch the mayor of Magdeburg, an ex-alchemist named Otto von Guericke,
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