History of Science
- John Farey publishes A Treatise on the Steam Engine, historical, practical and descriptive in London.
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“Anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the ‘anticipation of Nature.’”
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