TY  - GEN
AB  - 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 producedwork that derived from their training as engineers 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.
AU  - Gillispie, Charles Coulston,
CN  - QA802
DO  - 10.1007/978-94-017-8011-7
DO  - doi
ET  - Second edition.
ID  - 697667
KW  - Mechanics
KW  - Thermodynamics
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8011-7
N2  - 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 producedwork that derived from their training as engineers 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.
SN  - 9789401780117 
SN  - 9401780110 
T1  - Lazare and Sadi Carnota scientific and filial relationship /
TI  - Lazare and Sadi Carnota scientific and filial relationship /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8011-7
VL  - 19
ER  -