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
Reference number: CLP/18i/136
Date: 1712
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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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- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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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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