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Papin, Denis: A New Digester or Engine, for softaing Bones, the Description of its Makes and Use in Cookery, Voayages at See, Confectionary, Making of Drinks, Chemistry, and Dying, etc. (pp.105-109, Illustrated by a large en Acta Eruditorum, 1/1. - Leipzig, J.Grossium & Gletitschium, 1682, 4°, (3 Bl.), 402 pp., (3 Bl.), 21 z.T. gefalt. Kupfertafeln, feiner Ledereinband der Zeit mir Rückenveroldung.

Invention of steam Safety Valve - Entitles Papin to Universal Admiration (Galloway).
First Edition of the very first scientific German journal founded by Leibniz and his friend Otto Menck. It was much ahead of its time in its conception and motivation embracing a range of learning that extended well beyond science including theology, philology, law, history as well as science.
Besides Papin's famous paper, this first volume contains three important papers by Leibniz.
The paper of Papin was fist published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and is so rare that a facsimile edition was deemed necessary in 1966 which is added to the book.
Denis Papin (1647-1712) studied medicine, but that is not the field in which he gained his fame. He served as assistant to Huygens and helped introduce improvements in Boyle's air pump. Papin corresponded with Leibniz who introduced Papin's work to Boyle. In consequence Papin went to England as Boyle's assistant in 1675; he never returned to France where, as a protestant, he would have found the atmosphere unpleasant, to say the least.
In 1679 he developed a steam digester, in which water was boiled in a vessel with a tightly fitted lid. The accumulating steam created a pressure that raised the boiling point of water and at this higher temperature, bones softened and meat cooked in quick time. A safety valve was included in case steam pressure got too high. This digester was the forerunner of the modern pressure cooker, and it earned Papin membership in the Royal Society in 1680. He cooked a meal for the Royal Society in his digester and prepared a particularly impressive one for King Charles II.
The steam pressure within the digester must have given Papin the notion of making steam to work. He placed a little water at the bottom of a tube and, by heating it, converted in to steam. This expanded forcibly, pushing a piston ahead of it. Fifteen centuries after Heron, men where once again toying with steam, but this time the matter was to be followed up and a century later reached a climax with Watt." - cd. Alicke; DSB X, 292ff.; Mattschoss, Entwicklung der Dampfmaschine ), 69 ff.; Edelstein, Papin and his new Digester "Inventions of the Pressure Kier and Pressure Dyeing" in "American Dyestuff Reporter, vol. 50, 25ff., 1961

Added a copy of the fine facsimile reprint of the only English edition of Papin's "A New Digester or Engine for softing Bones; London, J.M. for Henry Bonwicke, 1681 (Dawson of Pall Mall, 1966, Kl.4°, 54 pp., 1 folding plate).

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Wallace, Robert, Editor. Nuwer, Hank; Wolf, Ron; Hurlbut, David; Wolin-Semple, Penny; Murphy, Michael; Long, Jeff. Rocky Mountain Magazine March/April 1981, Vol. 3, No. 2, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Rocky Mountain Country Limited Partnership 1981 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed.
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