Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10373
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Hauksbee’s experiment on air pressure
Date
1709
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
43300
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 240mm
width (print): 147mm
width (print): 147mm
Subject
Content object
Description
The plate illustrates section III (pp.69-70), ‘An Experiment shewing the Difficulty of separating two Hemispheres, upon the injecting an Atmosphere of Air on their outward Surfaces, without exhausting the included Air’.
Plate IIII 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 IIII 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.
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