- "pump" in
Latin and Gr****; it
represents an air pump.
Originally Antlia Pneumatica, the
constellation was
established by Nicolas-Louis de
Lacaille in the...
-
Caloptilia pneumatica is a moth of the
family Gracillariidae. It is
known from Brazil.
Global Taxonomic Database of
Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) v t e...
-
intended as a "temple wonder", like many of the
other devices described in
Pneumatica.[clarification needed] Vitruvius, on the
other hand,
mentions use of the...
- Corvus, Crater, ****tans Uraniæ, Hydra, Felis, Lupus, Centaurus,
Antlia Pneumatica, Argo Navis, and
Pyxis Nautica The
constellations depicted, in the order...
- century BCE Gr****
writer on mechanics,
Philo of Byzantium. In his work
Pneumatica,
Philo observed that
inverting a
vessel over a
burning candle and surrounding...
- a wind organ, a coin-operated machine, and a steam-powered engine, in
Pneumatica and
Automata by
Heron of
Alexandria Ctesibius,
Philo of Byzantium, Heron...
-
published as an
Appendix to a book by Fr.
Schott –
Mechanica Hydraulico-
pneumatica –
published in 1657. This book came to the
attention of
Robert Boyle who...
- as
enchorda or
entata (but only for
instruments with
several strings),
pneumatica or empneousta, and
krusta (from the Gr**** for hit or strike) or pulsatilia...
- has been
doubted by some
authors on the
ground that the part of Philo's
Pneumatica which describes the use of the
gimbal survived only in an
Arabic translation...
-
mostly from the
areas of
optics and acoustics. His
Mechanica hydraulica-
pneumatica (Würtzburg, 1657)
contains the
first description of von Guericke's air...
