Hauksbee's experiments on light and phosphorus Product:Greetings card 30th June 1965

30th June 1965

soon made under licence in Germany

'An Open Secret'

6th August 1979

A pair of spectacles hang from a chain at waist level

Hauksbee's experiments on light and phosphorus Product:Greetings card 30th June 1965Figure 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.