1 Jun 2018
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| Honouring Sadi Carnot | |
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On this day in 1796, the great French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot was born, a man whose only published work – Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance (Paris, 1824) – marked the very foundation of modern thermodynamics.
To celebrate this birth, his father the famous statesman Lazare Carnot had a song published, written by himself and his musician friend Prieur-Duvernois, a member of the revolutionary Comité de Salut Public like Lazare himself in 1793-1794. Here’s an extremely rare piece of occasion, in honour of an exceptional being! 
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| posted by Benjamin at 16:24 | comments [0] | |
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