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Because some damage almost always occurs when these hemispheres are separated and especially because they tend to lose their perfect symmetry as a result of their falling or striking the ground when they are being pulled apart by the horses, I had two other larger ones made, a cubit in % diameter. (But because craftsmen can rarely make vessels of this kind according to prescribed specifications, I found these hemispheres had diameters of only 95/100 parts of a Magdeburg cubit.) I was of the opinion that twenty-four horses could not pull these hemispheres apart but that a person could separate them by admitting air.
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Von Guericke, O. (1994). A Further Experiment Wherein the Hemispheres Which Could Not be Drawn Apart by Twenty-Four Horses are Separated by the Admission of Air. In: The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 137. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2010-4_71
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