Hauksbee's experiment on air pressure Finish:10-pack 'Secret Meeting of the Conservative

'Secret Meeting of the Conservative Party'

The drawing is on Marine Biological Station headed paper

The Dun Cow Inn

Below the view are humorous descriptive verses

Hauksbee's experiment on air pressure Finish:10-pack 'Secret Meeting of the ConservativeThe plate illustrates section III (pp. 69 70), 'An Experiment shewing the Difficulty of separating two Hemispheres, upon the injecting an Atmosphere of Air on their outward Surfaces, without exhausting the included Air'. Plate IIII 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