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
Reference number: CLP/18i/125
Date: 1709
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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'
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- CLP/18i/125
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- 1709
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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Francis Hauksbee, 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, 1709, CLP/18i/125, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18i_125/paper-an-account-of-an-experiment-touching-an-attempt-to-produce-light-on-the-inside-of-a-globe-glasse-lind-with-melted-flowers-of-sulphur-as-in-the-experiments-of-sealing-wax-and-pitch-by-francis-hauksbee, accessed on 11 September 2026
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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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