Quote#Wisdom
What I say here is not to give room for believing, that Mr. Savery,…
Quote byDenis Papin · 1647–1713
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Denis Papin, as quoted by Bernard Forest de Bélidor, Architecture Hydraulique Vol.2, p. 309 Tr. Patrick Muirhead, The Life of James Watt (1859) p. 145.
English (original)
What I say here is not to give room for believing, that Mr. Savery, who has since published this invention at London, is not actually the inventor. I do not doubt that the same thought may have occurred to him, as well as to others, without having learnt it elsewhere.
— Denis Papin
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