CARNOT, NICOLAS-LÉONARD-SADI. Réflexions sur la Puissance Motrice du Feu et sur les Machines propres à développer cette Puissance.<> Mounted lithographed frontispiece portrait; manuscript facsimile. Half-title. 4to, modern 1/4 morocco; institutional stamps on recto and verso of title. Paris, 1878
Second edition of Carnot's rare groundbreaking 1824 work on the motive power of heat, foreshadowing the second law of thermodynamics. In addition to a biography of Carnot, this edition contains the first appearance of excerpts from further manuscripts by him on the subject. "These notes anticipated nearly all the groundwork for the first law of thermodynamics"--DSB III, 83. Bibliotheca Mechanica, pages 63-64; Norman 404; Printing and the Mind of Man 285 (all citing the original edition).<
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