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Also Known As Francis Hawksbee, the Elder
Died c.1713
Subjects Of Study air • capillarity • surface tension • water • weight • measurement • vacuum pump
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
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Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
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Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
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Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
Edmund Gunter
English mathematician
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
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Sir Charles Vernon Boys
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George Dollond
British optician
Jesse Ramsden
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Ebenezer Kinnersley
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Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
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Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry
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Pierre Bouguer
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Carl F.W. Ludwig, detail of an engraving
Carl F.W. Ludwig
German physiologist
Guericke, engraving by C. Galle, 1649, after a portrait by Anselmus von Hulle
Otto von Guericke
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Gustave-Auguste Ferrié
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Gill, Sir David
Sir David Gill
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Nicholson, William
William Nicholson
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Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose.
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
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Réaumur, detail of an engraving by J. Blanchon
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist