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Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship

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Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi produced work that derived from their training as engineering and went largely unnoticed by physicists for a generation or more, even though their respective work introduced concepts that proved fundamental when taken up later by other hands. There was, moreover, a filial as well as substantive relation between the work of father and son. Sadi applied to the functioning of heat engines the analysis that his father had developed in his study of the operation of ordinary machines. Specifically, Sadi's idea of a reversible process originated in the use his father made of geometric motions in the analysis of machines in general.

This unique book shows how the two Carnots influenced each other in their work in the fields of mechanics and thermodynamics and how future generations of scientists have further benefited from their work.

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Inventory Code	Barcode	Call Number	Location	Status
1408000359	EB0000898	530.09 Cou l	Central Library (OPAC)	Available

Detail Information

Series Title

History of Mechanism and Machine Science

Call Number

530.09 Cou l

Publisher

Dordrecht Holland : Springer Dordrecht., 2014

Collation

XVI, 490p.: Ill.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-94-017-8011-7

Classification

530.09

Content Type

Ebook

Media Type

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Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Mechanics

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