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inauthor:"David Philip Miller" from books.google.com
The central historical question to which the book addresses itself is why the priority claims of long dead natural philosophers so preoccupied a wide range of people in the later period.
inauthor:"David Philip Miller" from books.google.com
Miller examines Watt's illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt's conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings.
inauthor:"David Philip Miller" from books.google.com
The Life and Legend of James Watt offers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer.