Observations of Dr Papin, Fellow of the Royal Society, on a French Paper concerning a

Perpetual Motion
Author(s): Dr Papin
Source: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 15 (1685), pp. 1240-1241
Published by: The Royal Society
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