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 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' [1709]