Hauksbee's experiments on light and phosphorus Size:L: 100 x 80cm A view of Brasenose college

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Hauksbee's experiments on light and phosphorus Size:L: 100 x 80cm A view of Brasenose collegeFigure 1 on this plate illustrates pp. 65 68, 'An Account of an Experiment, confirming the Production of Light by the Effluvia of one Glass falling on another'. Figures 2 5 illustrate section I, experiments I V (pp. 5 16), 'An Account of several Experiments on the Mercurial Phosphorus'. Plate III from Physico mechanical experiments on various subjects, by Francis Hauksbee (London, 1709), presented to the Royal Society by the author on 26 October 1709.