“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

Denis Papin, as quoted by Bernard Forest de Bélidor, Architecture Hydraulique Vol.2 https://books.google.com/books?id=tBkWAAAAYAAJ, p. 309 Tr. Patrick Muirhead, The Life of James Watt https://books.google.com/books?id=MeJUAAAAcAAJ (1859) p. 145

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