Hauksbee's experiments on light and phosphorus Size:L: 100 x 80cm licensee at the Punch Bowl

licensee at the Punch Bowl

Tower Bridge with bascules open

White Lion Court and White Lion Yard

Giraffes at the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park

Hauksbee's experiments on light and phosphorus Size:L: 100 x 80cm licensee at the Punch BowlFigure 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.