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Paper, 'Proposals about the machine to get good air for respiration and vegetation' by D [Denis] Papin

Reference number: CLP/3ii/5

Date: 1709

Description

Papin describes his machine consisting of a chamber with a pump, large enough to accommodate a man. He then details the costs of constructing the chamber. His imagined uses for the chamber are found at CLP/3ii/6. Also includes a short letter from Papin to Hans Sloane dated 18 January 1709, explaining that he attempted to deliver his paper twice to Isaac Newton's house but that Newton was not home on either occasion.

Subject: Engineering

Read to the Royal Society on 19 January 1708

Reference number
CLP/3ii/5
Earliest possible date
1709
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Denis Papin

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Denis Papin, Paper, 'Proposals about the machine to get good air for respiration and vegetation' by D [Denis] Papin, 1709, CLP/3ii/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3ii_5/paper-proposals-about-the-machine-to-get-good-air-for-respiration-and-vegetation-by-d-denis-papin, accessed on 03 October 2024

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