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Lazare and Sadi Carnot

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 19)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8011-7

ISBN: 978-94-017-8010-0

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Nov 28, 2013

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Chapter 1Biographical Sketch of Lazare Carnot

Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Pisano, Raffaele

Pages: 1 –13

[Known to French history as the “Organizer of Victory” in the wars of the Revolution, and to engineering mechanics for the principle of continuity in the transmission of power, Lazare–Nicolas–Marguerite CarnotLazare–Nicolas–Marguerite Carnot (1753–1823) remains one of the very few men of science...
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Chapter 2The Science of Machines

Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Pisano, Raffaele

Pages: 15 –45

[The great events that Carnot touched and shaped never caused him to lose sight of the adaptation of the science of mechanics to the science of machines that he thought to initiate when still an obscure young engineer. Fortunately for the historian, the documentation is adequate to permit...
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Chapter 3The Development of Carnot’s Mechanics

Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Pisano, Raffaele

Pages: 47 –86

[It is fortunate that the two memoirs Carnot submitted to the Academy of sciences in Paris in 1778 and 1780 have survived in its archives. They give access to the form and content of his thinking about mechanics and the science of machines when he was a young and hopeful officer 5 or 6 years out...
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Chapter 4The Carnot Approach and the Mechanics of Work and Power, 1803–1829

Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Pisano, Raffaele

Pages: 87 –105

[The way in which the work of Lazare and Sadi Carnot made itself felt reveals a similarity between their writings as interesting as their substantive filiation and the analytic and stylistic parallels. The failure of Lazare’s Essai sur les machinesen général to attract contemporary attention has...
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Chapter 5An Engineering Justification of Algebra and the Calculus

Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Pisano, Raffaele

Pages: 107 –131

[The geometer Michel Chasles, one of the nineteenth–century personages who was both a master and a masterly historian of his favorite subject, discussed the contributions of the “illustrious Carnot” after the descriptive geometry of Monge and before the projective geometry of Poncelet in the...
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Chapter 6History and Historiography of Sadi Carnot’s Thermodynamics

Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Pisano, Raffaele

Pages: 133 –189

[By considering the vast biographical literature accumulated in the past centurycentury and today, here we prefer to focus solely on some particular aspects strictly related to Sadi CarnotSadi Carnot’s science.]
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Chapter 7On Principles in Sadi Carnot’s Thermodynamics

Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Pisano, Raffaele

Pages: 191 –225

[In 1824 Sadi CarnotSadi Carnot published Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feuRéflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu in which he almost entirely founded thermodynamic thermodynamicstheory. Two years after his death, his friend Clapeyron’Clapeyron’s introduced the famous PV diagram to...
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Chapter 8What are the Scientific Roots of Sadi Carnot’s Cycle?

Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Pisano, Raffaele

Pages: 227 –256

[In this section we investigate the possible origin of the idea of the cyclecycle in Sadi Carnot’s workSadi Carnot, following the hypothesis of an analogyanalogy with the electricelectric circuitelectric circuit in Alessandro VoltaAlessandro Volta’s batterybattery. First we will present a...
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Chapter 9A Historical Epistemology of Thermodynamics. The Mathematics in Sadi Carnot’s Theory

Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Pisano, Raffaele

Pages: 257 –291

[The mathematical footnotemathematical footnote in Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feuRéflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu can be considered the highest mathematical level presented by Sadi CarnotSadi Carnot in his book. It also represents his way of mathematically interpreting...
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Chapter 10Studies and Heritage of Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu

Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Pisano, Raffaele

Pages: 293 –335

[In order to describe a possible scientific and historical panorama of the role played by the physical foundations of Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feuRéflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu when it was first published in this section, we’ve selected scientific studies and historical...

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