GUERCINO. See BARBIERI.
GUERICKE, or GUERICHE, (Otho), the most celebrated mathematician of his time, was born in 1602. He was the inventor of the air pump; and author of several works in natural philosophy, the chief of which is Experimenta Magdeburgica. He died in 1686.
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