Instrument
Date
28 February 1709
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 310mm
width (page): 195mm
width (page): 195mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Glass instrument for an experiment on the freezing of common water by Francis Hauksbee. The paper was read to a meeting of the Royal Society on 23 February 1708, and published as ‘An Account of an Experiment Touching the Freezing of Common Water, Ting'd with a Liquid Said to be Extracted from Shell-Lac’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 26, no. 320 (March and April 1709), pp. 304-05.
Object history
23 February 1709, 'A Paper of Mr Hauksbee's concerning the difference of Ice made of Water purg'd of Air, & water containing Air was read' (JBO/11/161).
Francis Hauksbee, ‘An Account of an Experiment Touching the Freezing of Common Water, Ting'd with a Liquid Said to be Extracted from Shell-Lac’, Phil. Trans., vol. 26, no. 320 (March and April 1709), pp. 304-05 (p. 305).
Francis Hauksbee, ‘An Account of an Experiment Touching the Freezing of Common Water, Ting'd with a Liquid Said to be Extracted from Shell-Lac’, Phil. Trans., vol. 26, no. 320 (March and April 1709), pp. 304-05 (p. 305).
Related fellows
Francis Hauksbee (1688 - 1763, British) , Instrument maker
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