Salomon de Caus

Salomon de Caus (born 1576 in Dieppe; died 1626) was a French engineer and once (falsely) credited with the development of the steam engine.

Salomon was the elder brother of Isaac de Caus. Being a Huguenot, he spent his life moving across Europe.

De Caus worked as an hydraulic engineer and architect under Louis XIII. He also designed gardens in England, the one of Somerset House among them; also, the garden of the Palatinate in Heidelberg, Germany.

In 1615, he published a book showing a steam-driven pump similar to one developed by Giovanni Battista della Porta fourteen years earlier. Nevertheless, François Arago called him the inventor of the steam engine as a result.

Works

* [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/caus1620 "Hortus Palatinus"] {1620} at the University of Heidelberg
* "La Perspective avec la raison des ombres et miroirs" (1611)
* "Les Raisons des forces mouvantes" (1615)