Paper, 'An account of an experiment made before the Royal Society at Gresham College, October the 23rd 1706, together with a repetition of the same, touching the production of a considerable light upon a slight attrition of the hands on a glass globe exhausted of its air: with other remarkable occurrances' by Francis Hauksbee Hauksbee provides an overview of some of his previous experiments undertaken at Gresham College before sharing his observations on several experiments he has made using a glass globe. Subject: Physics Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment made before the Royal Society at Gresham College, together with a repetition of the same, touching the production of a considerable light upon a slight attrition of the hands on a glass globe exhausted of its air: with other remarkable occurrences' 1706