{"product_id":"9783032364081","title":"A History of Thermodynamics: Homage to Sadi Carnot’s Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu 1824–2024 Texts, Translations, Archives, Reception, and Legacy, Vol. 2","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHistory of Physics\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eA History of Thermodynamics: Homage to Sadi Carnot’s Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu 1824–2024\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTexts, Translations, Archives, Reception, and Legacy, Vol. 2\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRaffaele Pisano\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eScience \/ Physics \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1824, Sadi Carnot’s \u003cem\u003eRéflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu\u003c\/em\u003e gave a new theoretical form to the problem of heat engines, motive power, and the transformation of heat into work. Two centuries later, the bicentenary of Carnot’s publication was marked by the international Carnot Lille 2024 colloquium and exhibition at the University of Lille, from which this coordinated two-volume work has emerged.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis second volume of the two-volume work follows the afterlife of the \u003cem\u003eRéflexions\u003c\/em\u003e of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832) through textual transmission, English translation, archival documentation, scientific reception, and the long transformation of thermodynamics from nineteenth-century heat theory to contemporary questions of entropy, irreversibility, information, and modern physical theory. Conceived in close continuity with Volume 1, this book examines the intellectual trajectories through which Carnot’s work was reread, reformulated, translated, and incorporated into wider scientific traditions. It explores the nineteenth-century reception of the \u003cem\u003eRéflexions\u003c\/em\u003e, the delayed recognition of Carnot’s contribution, the role of editions and translations, and the ways in which his ideal cycle and principle of maximum efficiency entered the foundations of thermodynamics. It also extends the inquiry towards later and contemporary developments: entropy, irreversibility, statistical and non-equilibrium thermodynamics, finite-time approaches, modern energy-conversion problems, and Carnotian reasoning within physics. Alongside these interpretive chapters, it includes a substantial textual and documentary apparatus, with a revised English translation, commentary, bibliographical reconstruction, and archival materials concerning Sadi, Lazare, and the wider scientific and institutional world of the Carnot family.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhere Volume 1 establishes the historical, institutional, and scientific foundations of Carnot’s work, Volume 2 shows how those foundations became a long-lasting conceptual resource for the history of thermodynamics, for the study of scientific texts and archives, and for modern reflections on engines, cycles, efficiency, entropy, and irreversibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, the two volumes offer historians, scientists, and archive scholars an instrument for understanding Carnot’s place in thermodynamics’ long formation as a scientific and documentary field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProf. Dr Raffaele Pisano, MSc, SICSI, PhD, HDR, is a physicist and historian of physics and mathematics. He is Full Professor at the University of Lille and Head of the History of Physics and Applied Science and Technologies Team (HOPAST) at IEMN–CNRS UMR 8520. He is also an elected member of the French National Council of Universities, Section 72. His research focuses on the history of thermodynamics, the scientific work of Lazare and Sadi Carnot, the historical relationships between physics and mathematics, epistemology, and the intellectual history of science. He served as Vice-President and subsequently President of the Inter-Divisional Teaching Commission of the DLMPST\/DHST\/IUHPST from 2011 to 2023 and he has also held several national and international academic responsibilities and was recently elected a member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics Council, etc. He has been Visiting Professor at the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, and at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics. His scholarly output includes more than 260 publications, comprising monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, and book chapters, together with numerous invited lectures and international research contributions.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15 October 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032364081\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51561676112012,"sku":"9783032364081","price":179.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032364081","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}