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Lazare and Sadi CarnotThe Development of Carnot’s Mechanics

Lazare and Sadi Carnot: The Development of Carnot’s Mechanics [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 of engineering school. The present chapter traces the development of his thinking from these, its earliest recorded expressions, through to the publication, in (1803a), of his Principes fondamentaux de l’équilibre et du mouvement. The method is to compare these earlier and later versions to the Essai sur les machinesen général, and to continue to an analysis of Sadi Carnot’s Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu of 1824 in order to bring out its filiation with his father’s work. The relevant, theoretical sections of the early two memoirs are reprinted by Charles Gillispie in his Lazare Carnot Savant (Gillispie 1971, Appendices B and C, pp 270–340). Readers may wish to refer points in the discussion, or indeed the discussion as a whole, to the original texts.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Lazare and Sadi CarnotThe Development of Carnot’s Mechanics

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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
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978-94-017-8010-0
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47 –86
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10.1007/978-94-017-8011-7_3
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[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 of engineering school. The present chapter traces the development of his thinking from these, its earliest recorded expressions, through to the publication, in (1803a), of his Principes fondamentaux de l’équilibre et du mouvement. The method is to compare these earlier and later versions to the Essai sur les machinesen général, and to continue to an analysis of Sadi Carnot’s Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu of 1824 in order to bring out its filiation with his father’s work. The relevant, theoretical sections of the early two memoirs are reprinted by Charles Gillispie in his Lazare Carnot Savant (Gillispie 1971, Appendices B and C, pp 270–340). Readers may wish to refer points in the discussion, or indeed the discussion as a whole, to the original texts.]

Published: Nov 28, 2013

Keywords: Motive Power; Mechanic Mechanic; Friction Friction; Hard Body; Work Work

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