Papin, Denis, French physicist, born at Blois, practised medicine at Angers; came to England and assisted Boyle in his experiments, made a special study of the expansive power of steam and its motive power, invented a steam-digester with a safety-valve, since called after him, for cooking purposes at a high temperature; became professor of Mathematics at Marburg (1647‒1712).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Papier-Mâche * Papinianus, Æmilius