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Paper, 'An account of an experiment made January the 2nd 1705/6 at a meeting of the Royal Society at Gresham College touching the production of a purple light upon the attrition of glass on woolen in vacuo together with the various phenomena of the same experiment at several tryals' by Francis Hauksbee

Reference number: CLP/18i/96

Date: 1705

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Subject: Physics

Read to the Royal Society on 23 January 1705

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CLP/18i/96
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1705
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3 pages
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Francis Hauksbee

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Francis Hauksbee, Paper, 'An account of an experiment made January the 2nd 1705/6 at a meeting of the Royal Society at Gresham College touching the production of a purple light upon the attrition of glass on woolen in vacuo together with the various phenomena of the same experiment at several tryals' by Francis Hauksbee, 1705, CLP/18i/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18i_96/paper-an-account-of-an-experiment-made-january-the-2nd-17056-at-a-meeting-of-the-royal-society-at-gresham-college-touching-the-production-of-a-purple-light-upon-the-attrition-of-glass-on-woolen-in-vacuo-together-with-the-various-phenomena-of-the-same-experiment-at-several-tryals-by-francis-hauksbee, accessed on 23 January 2026

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