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192 KB (PDF) Student’s Learning Activities 05/05/2021 240 KB (PDF) Simulation Historical Resources A Primary Sources, English and Latin Schott, Kaspar : Technica Curiosa, Sive Mirabilia Artis: Libris XII [...] Experiments of Otto Von Guericke, Dordrecht 1994, online available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2010-4. B Secondary Sources, English Genz, Henning : Nothingness, the Science of Empty Space., Reading

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