CARNOT, Nicolas Léonard Sadi. Reflections on the motive powe - Lot 126

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CARNOT, Nicolas Léonard Sadi. Reflections on the motive powe - Lot 126
CARNOT, Nicolas Léonard Sadi. Reflections on the motive power of fire and on the machines capable of developing this power. Paris, Bachelier, 1824. In-8° of 118 pp. 1 pl. in fine. Blue half-chagrin, spine with 5 faux-nerves, red morocco title-piece, gilt date at foot, gilt arms on red percaline boards, red head. [Spine unstained, percaline slightly rubbed]. First edition of only 600 copies, extremely rare, of the only book published by the physicist in which he laid the foundations of thermodynamics. With the arms of the Carnot family. Copy enriched with: ● Handwritten note on the flyleaf: "I measured, in the cemetery of Ivry, the skull of Sadi C. its dimensions are 143 mm x 192 mm that is, brought back to 100 = 74,9/100 of index. He was therefore clearly dolichocephalic." ● SAINT-ROBERT, Count Paul de. Sadi Carnot. Biographical note. Turin, Imprimerie royale, 1868. In-8° of 22 pp. Sewn, red cover, uncut. [Offprint from the Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino]. ● JACQMIN, François Prosper (1820-1889), polytechnic engineer, professor at the Ecole des Ponts, director of the Eastern Railway Company. Autograph letter signed, Paris, January 26, 1879, to Sadi CARNOT, then under-secretary of state at the Ministry of Public Works. 1 p. in-4°. On the occasion of the new edition of Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu, he pays tribute to the scientist: "I did not hesitate in my lessons given 15 years ago at the Ecole des Ponts to point out your uncle as one of the creators of the mechanical theory of heat, and if I had known the extraordinary equation he gave between dynamies and units of heat I would most certainly have insisted even more on the honor that is his." ● Invitation card for the inauguration of the plaque commemorating the birth in Petit-Luxembourg of Nicolas-Léonard-Sadi Carnot who discovered the principles of thermodynamics. Ceremony to be held on Friday, July 8 [1932] under the presidency of Albert Lebrun, President of the Republic.
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