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Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship

Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship

Gillispie, Charles Coulston
Pisano, Raffaele

Paperback

Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, Book 19

Technology & EngineeringSports GeneralGeneral Mathematics

ISBN10: 9401779503
ISBN13: 9789401779500
Publisher: Springer
Published: Sep 17 2016
Pages: 490
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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