Lazare and Sadi Carnot A Scientific and Filial Relationship /

• Main Authors: Gillispie, Charles Coulston (Author), Pisano, Raffaele (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2014.
• Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 19
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Epistemology.; Mathematics.; Engineering, general.; History of Science.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

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...