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An experiment on a bird in the air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint after J. Wright of Derby, ca. 1780.
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An experiment on a bird in the air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint after J. Wright of Derby, ca. 1780.

Joseph Wright · 1780

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