The growing public awareness of natural philosophy and technology in the eighteenth century brought with it unintended consequences, including an enlarged space for satiric treatments of scientific issues, which have not always been recognized for what they are. A pamphlet entitled The York Buildings Dragons appeared in December 1725, with a second, augmented, edition in January 1726. It has generally been attributed to John Theophilus Desaguliers FRS (1683-1744), the Huguenot engineer, Newtonian expositor and leading Freemason. This article throws fresh light on the pamphlet: to provide more extensive background to the work, to describe its aims and methods, to define its mode as entirely satiric, to analyse its contents in greater detail, to show that Desaguliers cannot possibly have been the author and to suggest as a more plausible candidate the mathematician, physician and satiric author John Arbuthnot FRS (1667-1735). Historians of science and technology need to take care in assessing the pamphlet literature surrounding controversial innovations.

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约克（York）建筑巨龙：Desaguliers，Arbuthnot和对科学界的态度。

十八世纪，公众对自然哲学和技术的认识不断提高，带来了意想不到的后果，包括扩大了对科学问题进行讽刺性处理的空间，而这些空间并没有得到人们的认可。一本名为《约克建筑之龙》的小册子于1725年12月发行，第二版于1726年1月进行了扩充。该小册子通常归因于约翰·西奥菲勒斯·德萨古里耶斯FRS（1683-1744年），休格诺特工程师，牛顿解释者和主要的共济会成员。本文为小册子提供了新的亮点：为该作品提供更广泛的背景，描述其目的和方法，将其定义为完全讽刺的形式，更详细地分析其内容，表明Desaguliers不可能是作者，并建议数学家，医师和讽刺作家John Arbuthnot FRS（1667-1735）作为更合理的候选人。科学技术史学家在评估有关有争议的创新的小册子文献时需要格外小心。