Hauksbee's experiments on light and phosphorus mb-height 3323 View of the White Tower

View of the White Tower at the Tower of London

Secretary Keith Honey pictured outside the ground holding a Cup Ticket 'Sold Out' notice

He was falsely convicted of treason and executed

Boxer Frank Bruno with his trainer

Hauksbee's experiments on light and phosphorus mb-height 3323 View of the White TowerFigure 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.