The spontaneous ascension of water in small tubes
Date
15 April 1706
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 310mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Description
An experiment executed by Francis Hauksbee at Gresham College on the capillary rise of water in small tubes. The experiment examines whether there is any difference between the capillary working in a vacuum and in open air. The experiment shows there is not.
Transcription
An experiment made at Gresham College Aprill the 15th, 1706 showing that the seemingly spontanious ascention of Water in small tubes open at both ends is the same in vacuo as in the open air, by F. Hauksbee, FRS.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Fig. 4: a glass vacuum instrument, in F. Hauksbee, ‘An experiment made at Gresham College, shewing that the seemingly spontaneous ascension of water in small tubes open at both ends is the same in vacuo as in the open air’, Phil. Trans., vol. 25, no. 305 (January, February and March 1706), pp. 2223-24.
Related fellows
Francis Hauksbee (1688 - 1763, British) , Instrument maker
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