Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance

by Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot

$60,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Giraudet for Bachelier, 1824. First edition, very rare, and a fine copy in original state, of Carnot’s only published work, which led directly to the first and second laws of thermodynamics. “Carnot, one of the most original thinkers among physical scientists, applied himself to the analysis of the cyclical operation of heat engines” Dibner . “Carnot’s treatise on the motive power of heat,

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