Hauksbee's experiments on light and phosphorus Size:L: 100 x 80cm Giraffes at the Zoological Gardens

Giraffes at the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park

Tower Bridge with bascules open

View of the City of London School

A view of Brasenose college in Oxford

Leicester City goalkeeper Peter Shilton pictured with his wife Sue and their four month old baby boy Michael at their home in Saddington

Hauksbee's experiments on light and phosphorus Size:L: 100 x 80cm Giraffes at the Zoological GardensFigure 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.