| Reference number | CLP/18i/125 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching an attempt to produce light on the inside of a globe glasse lin'd with melted flowers of sulphur, as in the experiments of sealing wax and pitch' by Francis Hauksbee |
| Date | [1709] |
| Description | Hauksbee writes: 'Notwithstanding Sealing-wax and Pitch afford such surprizing Phaenomena, rendring the Form of Bodies visible thro' their Opake Substances, under the circumstances of a Vacuum and Attrition.'
Subject: Physics
Read to the Royal Society on 22 March 1709
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiments, touching an attempt to produce light on the inside of a globe-glass lin'd with melted flowers of sulphur, as in the experiments of sealing-wax and pitch' |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1708.0070 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8345 | Hauksbee; Francis (c 1660 - 1713) | c 1660 - 1713 |