Setting sun, glass instrument
Date
1707
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Description
2 figures from issue 310 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figure 1. Depiction of the setting sun, observed by William Derham in Upmister, 1707, and a pyramidal apparition perpendicular to it. Illustration to ‘An account of a pyramidal appearance in the heavens, observed near Upminster in Essex’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 25, issue 310 (June 1707). Original proof of this image can be found in MS/131/126.
Figure 2. Glass instrument made and used by Francis Hauksbee in his experiments on the production of light. Illustration to ‘An account of an experiment, confirming one lately made, touching the production of light, by the effluvia of one glass falling on another in motion’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 25, issue 310 (June 1707). Original proof of this image can be found in MS/131/135-A.
William Derham (1657-1735), British Church of England clergyman and natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703, and; Francis Hauksbee (bap. 1660, d. 1713), British natural philosopher and scientific instrument maker, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705.
Figure 1. Depiction of the setting sun, observed by William Derham in Upmister, 1707, and a pyramidal apparition perpendicular to it. Illustration to ‘An account of a pyramidal appearance in the heavens, observed near Upminster in Essex’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 25, issue 310 (June 1707). Original proof of this image can be found in MS/131/126.
Figure 2. Glass instrument made and used by Francis Hauksbee in his experiments on the production of light. Illustration to ‘An account of an experiment, confirming one lately made, touching the production of light, by the effluvia of one glass falling on another in motion’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 25, issue 310 (June 1707). Original proof of this image can be found in MS/131/135-A.
William Derham (1657-1735), British Church of England clergyman and natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703, and; Francis Hauksbee (bap. 1660, d. 1713), British natural philosopher and scientific instrument maker, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705.
Related fellows
William Derham (1657 - 1735, British) , Clergyman
Francis Hauksbee (1688 - 1763, British) , Instrument maker
Francis Hauksbee (1688 - 1763, British) , Instrument maker
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