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Paper, 'New way to get good air for respiration and vegetation' by [Denis Papin]

Reference number: CLP/3ii/6

Date: 1708

Description

Papin discusses the need for air to sustain life as well as the effect of atmospheric pressure on living things. He uses observes to this effect to support his invention of an air chamber with controlled pressure, described at CLP/3ii/5.

Subject: Engineering / Biology

Read to the Royal Society on 19 January 1708

Reference number
CLP/3ii/6
Earliest possible date
1708
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Denis Papin

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Denis Papin, Paper, 'New way to get good air for respiration and vegetation' by [Denis Papin], 1708, CLP/3ii/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3ii_6/paper-new-way-to-get-good-air-for-respiration-and-vegetation-by-denis-papin, accessed on 15 October 2024

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