Hauksbee's experiments on light and phosphorus Product:Greetings card The inn was the meeting

The inn was the meeting place of the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Campbell took his first official international land speed record of 146

A pair of spectacles hang from a chain at waist level

'Try this pair'

30th June 1965

Hauksbee's experiments on light and phosphorus Product:Greetings card The inn was the meetingFigure 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.