Lazare and Sadi Carnot - A Scientific and Filial Relationship (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2014)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 19
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2014
Authors:	Charles Coulston Gillispie • Raffaele Pisano
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	490
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2014
ISBN-13:	978-9401779500
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Engineering: general Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Promotions
LSN:	9401779503
Barcode:	9789401779500

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