TY - BOOK ID - 8656578 TI - Lazare and Sadi Carnot : a scientific and filial relationship AU - Gillispie, Charles Coulston AU - Pisano, Raffaele PY - 2014 SN - 9401780102 9401780110 9789401780100 PB - Dordrecht: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Carnot, Lazare, 1753-1823. KW - Carnot, Sadi, 1796-1832. KW - Mechanics -- History. KW - Thermodynamics -- History. KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Engineering - General KW - Mechanics KW - Thermodynamics KW - History. KW - Carnot, Lazare, KW - Carnot, Sadi, KW - Carnot, Sadi Nicolas Léonard, KW - Carnot, N. L. S., KW - Karno, Sadi, KW - Officier au Corps royal du génie, KW - Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, KW - Carnot, L. N. M. KW - Carnot, KW - Karno, Lazar, KW - Engineering. KW - Epistemology. KW - Mathematics. KW - Engineering, general. KW - History of Science. KW - History of Mathematical Sciences. KW - Math KW - Science KW - Epistemology KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Philosophy KW - Psychology KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Construction KW - Industrial arts KW - Technology KW - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical KW - Dynamics KW - Physics KW - Heat KW - Heat-engines KW - Quantum theory KW - Carnot, Sadi Nicolas Léonard KW - Carnot, N. L. S. KW - Karno, Sadi KW - Genetic epistemology. KW - Developmental psychology KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Engineering KW - Science - History KW - Genetic epistemology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8656578 AB - 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 engineers 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. ER -