Hauksbee's experiments on attrition and electricity Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Monument in St James's Church

Monument in St James's Church

View of the eyeball and its muscles seen in profile

including a man begging and an omnibus

Hand and Shears Inn

30th October 1982

Hauksbee's experiments on attrition and electricity Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Monument in St James's ChurchThe plate illustrates pp. 51 61, 'A continuation of the Experiments on the Attrition of Glass' and 'Some farther Experiments relating to the Electricity of Glass'. Plate VII 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