Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching the production of light within a globe glass whose inward surface is lined with sealing wax upon an attrition of its outside' by Francis Hauksbee
Reference number: CLP/18i/115
Date: 1708
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Hauksbee writes: 'The seeming Congruity that appears to be between Sealing-Wax and Glass, in several Experiments already made in relation to Light and Electricity, producible on the Attrition of them, has already been taken notice of: And for a farther Confirmation of their agreableness, take the following Experiment.'
Subject: Physics
Read to the Royal Society on 16 June 1708
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment, touching the production of light within a globe glass, whose inward surface is lin'd with sealing-wax, upon an attrition of its outside'
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Francis Hauksbee, Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching the production of light within a globe glass whose inward surface is lined with sealing wax upon an attrition of its outside' by Francis Hauksbee, 1708, CLP/18i/115, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18i_115/paper-an-account-of-an-experiment-touching-the-production-of-light-within-a-globe-glass-whose-inward-surface-is-lined-with-sealing-wax-upon-an-attrition-of-its-outside-by-francis-hauksbee, accessed on 14 January 2026
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IV. An account of an experiment, touching the production of light within a globe glass, whose inward surface is lin'd with sealing-wax, upon an attrition of its outside External link, opens in new tab.
Author: Francis Hauksbee
Date: 1st December 1708
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1708.0033
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Classified papers: volume 18i of classified papers concering 'Papin and Hauksbee papers'
1678-1712 Creator: Denis Papin , Francis Hauksbee Reference number: CLP/18i
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