Books written by David Philip Miller
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The Life and Legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine
The Life and Legend of James Wattoffers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer.
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James Watt, Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age
See R. L. Hills, James Watt. Volume 2: The Years of Toil, 1775–1785 (Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing Ltd, 2005), pp. 161 ff. Watt to William Small, 24 November 1772, in J. P. Muirhead, The Origin and Progress of the Mechanical Inventions ...
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The Life and Legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine
The Life and Legend of James Wattoffers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer.
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Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century 'Water Controversy'
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.
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Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature
Richly illustrated 1996 collection on how Pacific plants and peoples were depicted by European explorers.