References for Denis Papin

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  1. P P MacLaughlin, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830903282.html
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9058341/Denis-Papin

Books:

  1. C-A Klein, Denis Papin: illustre savant blaisois (Chambray, 1987).
  2. C Cabanes, Denys Papin, inventeur et philosophe cosmopolite (Paris, 1935).
  3. J Chavigny, Grandeur et misère d'un inventeur, Denis Papin (Blois, 1948).
  4. L de Saussaye, La vie et les ouvrages de Denis Papin (Lyon, 1869).

Articles:

  1. H W Dickinson, Tercentenary of Denis Papin, Nature 160 (1947), 422-423.
  2. A Guillermo Ranea, Leibniz Briefwechsel mit Denis Papin, Prima philosophia 4 (1991), 277-290.
  3. C S Maffioli, Guglielmini vs Papin (1691-1697), Science in Bologna at the end of the XVIIth century through a debate on hydraulics, Janus 71 (1-4) (1984), 63-105.
  4. A G Ranea, The a priori method and the actio concept revised : Dynamics and metaphysics in an unpublished controversy between Leibniz and Denis Papin, Studia Leibnitiana 21 (1) (1989), 42-68.
  5. H W Robinson, Denis Papin (1647-1712), Notes and Records of the Royal Society 5 (1947), 48-50.
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