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An account of an experiment, touching the production of light within a globe glass, whose inward surface is lin'd with sealing-wax upon an attrition of its outside

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1708.
Call number: 722022:18
Creator: Hauksbee, Francis (1666-1713)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 24 cm (4to)
Associated organizations: Royal Society (Great Britain),; Burndy Library,
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