Paper, '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' by Francis Hauksbee Figure of apparatus in margin Experiment carried out at Gresham College on 19 April 1705/6 Subject: Physics Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An experiment made at Gresham College, shewing that the seemingly spontaneous ascention of water in small tubes open at both ends is the same in vacuo as in the open air' [1705]