The French physicist Denis Papin trying to create a vacuum with his powder machine inspired by Huyghens, in front of his peers of the University of Marburg in Germany, around 1688. Illustration from "Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes" written by Louis Figuier and published in 1867 by Furne, Jouvet et Cie.

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