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Image number: RS.10372
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Hauksbee’s experiments on light and phosphorus
Date
1709
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
43300
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 162mm
width (print): 214mm
width (print): 214mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Figure 1 on this plate illustrates pp.65-68, ‘An Account of an Experiment, confirming the Production of Light by the Effluvia of one Glass falling on another’. Figures 2-5 illustrate section I, experiments I-V (pp.5-16), ‘An Account of several Experiments on the Mercurial Phosphorus’.
Plate III from Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects, by Francis Hauksbee (London, 1709), presented to the Royal Society by the author on 26 October 1709.
Hauksbee (ca.1660 – 1713) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705, and was the Society’s Curator of Experiments from 1703 to 1713.
Plate III from Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects, by Francis Hauksbee (London, 1709), presented to the Royal Society by the author on 26 October 1709.
Hauksbee (ca.1660 – 1713) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705, and was the Society’s Curator of Experiments from 1703 to 1713.
Object history
The Royal Society is in possession of a modern replica of the Hauksbee apparatus depicted in this plate.
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