A new digester or engine for softening bones, containing the description of its make and use in these particulars: viz, cookery, voyages at sea, confectionary, making of drinks, chymistry, and dying. With an account of the price a good big engine will cost, and of the profit it will afford / [Denis Papin].

  • Papin, Denis, 1647-1714.
Date:
1681
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Credit: A new digester or engine for softening bones, containing the description of its make and use in these particulars: viz, cookery, voyages at sea, confectionary, making of drinks, chymistry, and dying. With an account of the price a good big engine will cost, and of the profit it will afford / [Denis Papin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. favoury as young and choke meat. 1 may befdes fayt that this was no hard matter; for every one knows that compact Bodies, if hot, will hum more powerfully than thoje of a more rare contexture : That red-hot Iron, for example, will do more than Coals : fo there was no: quejhon but that Water being heated enough for boiling, and (hut up fo as not to be able to expand it felf , as by ebullition it doth, fuel Water, 1 fay. Would ejfeEt much more than if permitted to its ordinary boiling expanfton. For my part, ajfoon as this cam into my mind by making fome Experimnts about Compreffion for JMr. Boyles I thought it Jo certain, that I made no quejlion to under¬ take that Tryal: yet though the thing Was fo eafie, no body , that I know of, had any thoughts of it: many Learned men have done and do fill things of much more difficulty, but no body can fee all things : Therefore we mujl confefs, that there may fill remain DifcoVeries to be made by fmall as well as great Capacities. And no man that induftrioujly profecutes a Subjefl, though feemingly never fo trivial, need deffair of obtaining that great felicity of having made fome TifcoVery, the ufefulnefs whereof may recommend it to Bojlerity. * ■ . Jr \ I N D E X-