Lazare and Sadi Carnot [electronic resource] : a scientific and filial relationship / Charles Coulston Gillispie, Raffaele Pisano.
2014
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Lazare and Sadi Carnot [electronic resource] : a scientific and filial relationship / Charles Coulston Gillispie, Raffaele Pisano.
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9789401780117 electronic book
9401780110 electronic book
9401780102
9789401780100
9401780110 electronic book
9401780102
9789401780100
Published
Dordrecht : Springer [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-017-8011-7 doi
Call Number
QA802
Dewey Decimal Classification
530.09
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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History of mechanism and machine science ; 19.
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Table of Contents
From the Contents: Biographical Sketch of Lazare Carnot
The Science Of Machines: Summary of Essai sur les machines en gnral
Geometric motions
Momentof Momentum
MomentofActivityThe concept of work
Practical conclusions
The Development Of Carnot's Mechanics: Argument of the 1778 Memoir on theory of machines
Argument of the 1780 Memoir.
The Science Of Machines: Summary of Essai sur les machines en gnral
Geometric motions
Momentof Momentum
MomentofActivityThe concept of work
Practical conclusions
The Development Of Carnot's Mechanics: Argument of the 1778 Memoir on theory of machines
Argument of the 1780 Memoir.