Lazare and Sadi Carnot [electronic resource] : a scientific and filial relationship / Charles Coulston Gillispie, Raffaele Pisano.

Second edition.

9789401780117 electronic book
9401780110 electronic book
9401780102
9789401780100

Dordrecht : Springer [2014]

©2014

English

1 online resource.

10.1007/978-94-017-8011-7 doi

QA802

530.09

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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History of mechanism and machine science ; 19.

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