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'Proposals about the Machine to gett good Air for Respiration and Vegetation' by Denis Papin

Reference number: RBO/9/85

Date: 1708

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States that machine is like a 'little chamber' seven foot wide and six foot high with a pump - discussing salaries
Read to the Royal Society on 19 January 1708

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RBO/9/85
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1708
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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'Proposals about the Machine to gett good Air for Respiration and Vegetation' by Denis Papin, 1708, RBO/9/85, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_9_85/proposals-about-the-machine-to-gett-good-air-for-respiration-and-vegetation-by-denis-papin, accessed on 06 September 2026

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