Hauksbee's experiments on barometry and attrition Colley 'A Coast Scene'

'A Coast Scene'

A view of Southwark Bridge

Original: red chalk on paper

an exquisite with a waist-length pigtail and a simpering expression minces along while a dog

smoking and drinking

Hauksbee's experiments on barometry and attrition Colley 'A Coast Scene'Figure 1 illustrates pp. 88 93, 'An Account of an Experiment, shewing the Cause of the Descent of the Mercury in the Barometer, in a Storm'. Figure 2 illustrates pp. 19 21, 'Concerning the Attrition of Amber on Woollen in Vacuo'. Plate V from Physico mechanical experiments on various subjects, by Francis Hauksbee (London, 1709), presented to the Royal Society by the author on 26 October 1709. Hauksbee (ca. 1660 1713) was elected a Fellow of the Royal