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Item Details
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LAZARE AND SADI CARNOT
A SCIENTIFIC AND FILIAL RELATIONSHIP |
| By: |
Raffaele Pisano, Charles Coulston Gillispie |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£89.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9401779503 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789401779500 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
17 September, 2016 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2014 |
| Series: |
History of Mechanism and Machine Science 19 |
| Pages: |
490 |
| Description: |
This unique book shows how Lazare Carnot and his son Sadi 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
77 black & white illustrations, 34 colour illustrations, biography |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Springer |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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