David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ In 1696 the Landgrave made him a Privy Councillor, and he was frequently in Cassel to meet the calls of the public service. His incessant experiments and inventions excited great interest, but could not but arouse jealousies among monopolists and others interested in antiquated customs and institutions. He invented a steam-gun, and in the year 1707 he invited the Landgrave and the leading public men to witness its firing. ”

“ An accomplished German Prince, Charles Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, was attracted by Papin’s genius and abilities, and was also anxious for his aid in carrying out a grand enterprise of water-works. He offered him the Professorship of Mathematics in the University of Marbourg. This offer Papin accepted, and gave in his resignation to the Royal Society on 23rd November 1687. He settled at Marbourg, and there he married a widowed cousin. ”

“ I went this afternoone with severall of the Royal Society to a supper, which was all dress’d, both fish and flesh, in Monsieur Papin’s Digestors, by which the hardest bones of beefe itselfe and mutton were made as soft as cheese without water or other liquor, and with lesse than 8 ounces of coales, producing an incredible quantity of gravy; and, for close of all, a jelly made of the bones of beef, the best for clearness and good relish, and the most delicious, that I had ever seene or tasted. We eat pike and other fish bones, and all without impediment ”