Francis Hauksbee: illustration of microscope and lantern

1709

Title
Francis Hauksbee: illustration of microscope and lantern
Collection
Caltech Images Collection
Series
Rare Book Photographs
Identifier
RB-FH1709-1
Dates
1709
Extents
1 photographs
Abstract
Francis Hauksbee was the demonstrator for the Royal Society during the early years of Newton’s tenure as president. The engraving is from his book, Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects : containing an account of several surprizing phenomena 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.
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