Gillispie, Charles Coulston

Lazare Carnot savant: a monograph treating Carnot's scientific work/ with facsim. reproduction of his unpublished writings on mechanics and on the calculus, and an essay concerning the latter by A. P. Youschkevitch. - Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. - xi, 359 p.: illus., facsims.; 29 cm.

Appendices (p. [169]-340):--A. Carnot's "Dissertation sur la théorie de l'infini mathématique" (1785), with notes by A. P. Youschkevitch.--B. Text of the theoretical sections of the 1778 Memoir on the theory of machines (in French).--C. Text of the theoretical sections of the 1780 Memoir on the theory of machines (in French) .

Includes bibliographical references.

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Carnot, Lazare 1753-1823.


Mechanics---Early works to 1800.
Science

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