Paper, 'Experiments on the mercurial phosphor [phosphorus]' by Francis Hauksbee
Reference number: CLP/18i/88
Date: 1705
Description
Hauksbee describes some experiments carried out at Gresham College on 31 October 1705, 'showing that it requires not soe thin a medium as is made by the weight of mercury in the Torricellian experiment to produce the mercurial phosphore', referring to Evangelista Torricelli's 1643 experiment to prove that the source of vacuum comes from atmospheric pressure.
Subject: Physics
Read to the Royal Society on 7 November 1705
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- CLP/18i/88
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- 1705
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- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Francis Hauksbee, Paper, 'Experiments on the mercurial phosphor [phosphorus]' by Francis Hauksbee, 1705, CLP/18i/88, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18i_88/paper-experiments-on-the-mercurial-phosphor-phosphorus-by-francis-hauksbee, accessed on 11 November 2025
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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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