Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects, containing an account of several surprizing phaenomena touching light and electricity. Producible on the attrition of bodies. With many other remarkable appearances, not before observ'd. Together with the explanations of all the machines, (the figures of which are curiously engrav'd on copper) and other apparatus us'd in making the experiments / By F. Hauksbee, F.R.S.

  • Hauksbee, Francis, 1666-1713.
Date:
1709
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Credit: Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects, containing an account of several surprizing phaenomena touching light and electricity. Producible on the attrition of bodies. With many other remarkable appearances, not before observ'd. Together with the explanations of all the machines, (the figures of which are curiously engrav'd on copper) and other apparatus us'd in making the experiments / By F. Hauksbee, F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -.V ,• V ' -V enment concerning o : move- ring it f elf in an extraordinary manner^ tig on a fin art Attrition of it p. 42 ^ Continuation of the Experiments on the Attrition of Glafs^ p. 51 • • . 7 . “ V- - JL y Some Jmrth m Experiments relating to the Electricity of Glafs , p. 57 ^ Account of an Experiment? confirming the Production of Light by the Effluvia of one Glafs falling on another? p.65 SECT. III. Experiment (hewing the Difficulty of feparating two Hemifpheresy upon the inf e Bing an Atmofphere of Air on their outward Surfaces7 without exhaufhng the included \\Air p. 69 SECT. IV. Ah Experiment concerning the Proportion of the Weight of Air, to the Weight of an equal bulk of Water^ without knowing the abfolute Quantity of either. p.74 S E C T. Y, An Experiment (hewing that the Afcent of Liquids in (mail Lubes open at both ends? is the fame in Vacuo as in the open Air. P* 77 An Account of an Experiment9 concerning the quantity of Air produced from a ,certain quantity of Gun-powder fired in Common Air, p. 81 An Experiment about dif urhing the Spring of the Air ? p,86 An Account of an Experiment? (hewing the Cakfe of the Defcent of the Mercury in the Barometery in a Storm9 p. 88 An Account of fo/ne Experiments made on the Phofphorus in Vacuo. p.9] An Account of fome Experiments made about the Propaga* tion ^/Sounds in Condens’d and in Rarefied Air, p.97