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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

Reference number: CLP/18i/100

Date: 1706

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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'

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CLP/18i/100
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1706
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4 pages
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Francis Hauksbee

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Francis Hauksbee, 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, 1706, CLP/18i/100, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18i_100/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, accessed on 23 January 2026

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