Paper, 'An experiment touching the freezing of common water and water purg'd of air' by Francis Hauksbee
Reference number: CLP/18i/117
Date: 1708
Description
Hauksbee writes: 'This Experiment was recommended to me, in order to discover what difference would happen in the Swelling or Bulk of Ice, producible on the Freezing of Common Water, and Water purg'd of Air.'
Subject: Physics
Read to the Royal Society on 23 February 1708
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An experiment touching the freezing of common water, and water purg'd of air'
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- CLP/18i/117
- Earliest possible date
- 1708
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- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Francis Hauksbee, Paper, 'An experiment touching the freezing of common water and water purg'd of air' by Francis Hauksbee, 1708, CLP/18i/117, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18i_117/paper-an-experiment-touching-the-freezing-of-common-water-and-water-purgd-of-air-by-francis-hauksbee, accessed on 14 January 2026
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II. An experiment touching the freezing of common water, and water purg'd of air External link, opens in new tab.
Author: Francis Hauksbee
Date: 1st April 1709
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1708.0046
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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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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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