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Paper, regarding Bernoulli's discovery of phosphorus on the surface of quicksilver in the Torricellian experiment by Francis Hauksbee

Reference number: CLP/18i/89

Date: 24 October 1705

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Hauksbee describes the discovery first made Bernoulli thirty years previously, and shares a list of several experiments carried out in the dark and a note about experiments to be carried out on 31 October 1705.

Subject: Physics

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CLP/18i/89
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24 October 1705
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4 pages
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Francis Hauksbee

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Francis Hauksbee, Paper, regarding Bernoulli's discovery of phosphorus on the surface of quicksilver in the Torricellian experiment by Francis Hauksbee, 24 October 1705, CLP/18i/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18i_89/paper-regarding-bernoullis-discovery-of-phosphorus-on-the-surface-of-quicksilver-in-the-torricellian-experiment-by-francis-hauksbee, accessed on 14 January 2026

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