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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    HE Learned World is now almoft ; . \ generally convinc’d, that inftead of amufing themfelves with Vain Hypo* thefes, which feem to differ little from Ro- mances, there’s no other way of Improving Natural Philosophy, but by De¬ monstrations and Conclufions founded upon Expe¬ riments judicioufly and accurately made. ' ■' - * - * i- *• ' \ y ■ -• r v - , - <, s f'■> • / * By this eourfe; after many Ages had pafs’d, with little or no Progrefs in the True Knowledge of the Nature of Things, grea¬ ter Advances have been made within the compafs of a fmall number of Years, than was ealily to be imagin’d, that the mod Sa¬ gacious Men, with their greateft Induftry, could ever have been capable of attaining to.