Francis Hauksbee's air pump Size:Large: 7 x 5in his sword on the floor

his sword on the floor

and figures walking alongside the river in the foreground

February 1975 75-0735-001

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Francis Hauksbee's air pump Size:Large: 7 x 5in his sword on the floorPlate illustrates Hauksbee's introduction (pp. 1 4) to his book, entitled 'A General Description of the Air Pump made use of in the following Experiments'. Plate I from Physico mechanical experiments on various subjects, by Francis Hauksbee (London, 1709), presented to the Royal Society by the author on 26 October 1709. Hauksbee (ca. 1660 1713) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705, and was the Society's Curator of Experiments from 1703 to