First Four Centuries of Slovenian Vacuum Techniques

There are lots of histories of research of vacuum published before this one. They focused technological or philosophical-theological aspects, or both. Why on earth do we need another one? There is one main reason: here, for the first time in historiography, we primary concentrate on the reception of vacuum-related issues in some limited geographical area. That area is called Central Europe, or, more precisely, Slovenia. There is also a nationalistic point in it: we wish to suggest, that all kinds of sciences including vacuum researches were never exclusive domain of Anglo-Saxon part of humans. In this stage of research, it is not quite possible to determine all the merits of non-European people, while the Slovenian contributions are much clearer. And they are not at all some minor obscurities, as the following narration tries to prove. Regretfully, at this point there is not much to be narrated about the probable vacuum techniques of Aborigines, Pacific Islands people and Sub-Saharan Africans, while just some sporadic information are provided about the Native American lyophilization or lapis nephriticum, Near Easterners’ development of Hellenic vacuum and overpressure technologies or the Far Eastern Oriental ideas about vacuums and zeros focused on Kerala areas in India. A little more is provided about Chinese and Japanese early borrowings of European designs of vacuum technologies and luminescence. Those faults are not just the consequences of our Eurocentrism, but also a regretful consequence of the lack of historical research and data about the Non-Europeans worldwide up to now.