Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship

by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Raffaele Pisano

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401779503
• ISBN13: 9789401779500
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"