The French physicist and mathematician Denis Papin arrived in Venice in 1682, at the invitation of the diplomat Sarroti, to work on the themes of water, air and the vacuum. 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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