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Papin answers the criticisms made by Mr Nuis
Also Papin gives his answer to the person who intends to build an engine with perpetual motion
Read to the Royal Society on 23 March 1687

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RBO/6/138
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4 pages
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Answers to objections concerning a new way of raising water by Denis Papin, RBO/6/138, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_6_138/answers-to-objections-concerning-a-new-way-of-raising-water-by-denis-papin, accessed on 09 February 2025

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