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Because a cylinder of air can exert as much pressure as a cylinder of water 18, 19, or at the most 20 Magdeburg cubits high, the weight of any given cylinder of air is calculable.
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Von Guericke, O. (1994). How to Determine the Pressure That a Cylinder of Air of Any Given Circumference Exerts. 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_69
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