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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 reproduction of his unpublished writings on mechanics and on the calculus, and an essay concerning the latter by A. P. Youschkevitch.
LIBRA QA804 .G55
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gillispie, Charles Coulston.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carnot, Lazare, 1753-1823.
- Carnot, Lazare.
- Mechanics--Early works to 1800.
- Mechanics.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 359 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1971.
- Notes:
- 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.
- Contains:
- Carnot, Lazare, 1753-1823. Selections. 1971.
- OCLC:
- 150755
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