
Robert Henry Thurston, A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine https://books.google.com/books?id=VDgOAAAAYAAJ (1878) Parts 1-2, pp. 50-51
Denis Papin, Letter, as quoted by Robert Stuart Meikleham, A Descriptive History of the Steam Engine (1824)
Robert Henry Thurston, A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine https://books.google.com/books?id=VDgOAAAAYAAJ (1878) Parts 1-2, pp. 50-51
“He straightway spreads his arms about the garlanded fire, and absorbs the prophetic vapours with glowing countenance.”
Ille coronatos iamdudum amplectitur ignes,
fatidicum sorbens vultu flagrante vaporem.
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 604 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
"Notes on Professor Robison's Dissertation on Steam-engines" (1769)
Oath of the four Grant children, first used in Ch. 2 : And Continues
The Ship that Flew (1939)
“Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height.”
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book X, Chapter VII, Sec. 1