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Book ID: CBB001213195

Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship (2013)

Gillispie, Charles Coulston (Author)
Pisano, Raffaele (Author)

Springer

ISBN: 9789400741447

Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xvi + 490 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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Mathematical analysis Science and politics Thermodynamics Engines Engineering Engines Physics Mechanics 19th century Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguérite Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi

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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Essay Review Luczak, Joshua (2015) Reflections on Lazare and Sadi Carnot. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 87-89). unapi

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