CARNOT, NICOLAS-LEONARD SADI. Rflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres developper cette puissance. Paris: Bachelier, 1824. Folding engraved plate. 8vo, slightly later half calf, rebacked; foxed, early marginal annotations in French, modern cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, half-title. The only book published in the author's lifetime (he died of cholera in 1832). "Working with engines, he found the true nature of heat and the best methods of determining its mechanical equivalent...His work on the principle of the conservation of energy anticipated Helmholz" - PMM (1963). Dibner, Heralds 155; Norman 404; PMM (1963) 476, (1983) 285.

细节

CARNOT, NICOLAS-LEONARD SADI. Rflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres developper cette puissance. Paris: Bachelier, 1824. Folding engraved plate. 8vo, slightly later half calf, rebacked; foxed, early marginal annotations in French, modern cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, half-title. The only book published in the author's lifetime (he died of cholera in 1832). "Working with engines, he found the true nature of heat and the best methods of determining its mechanical equivalent...His work on the principle of the conservation of energy anticipated Helmholz" - PMM (1963). Dibner, Heralds 155; Norman 404; PMM (1963) 476, (1983) 285.

来源

Edwin H. Hall, Professor of Physics, Harvard University, presentation inscription from a student, Theodore Lyman, 1902, on fly-leaf.