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Hauksbee describes experiments investigating the spontaneous ascention of water between glass planes.

Subject: Physics

Read to the Royal Society on 10 July 1712

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CLP/18i/136
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1712
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Francis Hauksbee

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Francis Hauksbee, Paper, 'An account of two experiments on the same [lead] with that, of the seeming spontanious asscention of water between two glasse planes in common air' by Francis Hauksbee, 1712, CLP/18i/136, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18i_136/paper-an-account-of-two-experiments-on-the-same-lead-with-that-of-the-seeming-spontanious-asscention-of-water-between-two-glasse-planes-in-common-air-by-francis-hauksbee, accessed on 14 February 2026

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