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Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire: And Other Papers on the Second Law of Thermodynamics by Sadi Carnot ISBN: 0486446417 Dover Publications Price: $11.95 click here to see this book The title essay, along with other papers in this volume, laid the foundation of modern thermodynamics. Highly readable, "Reflections" contains no arguments that depend on calculus, examining the relation between heat and work in terms of heat in steam engines, air-engines, and an internal combustion machine. Translation of 1890 edition. Table of Contents for Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire: And Other Papers on the Second Law of Thermodynamics Introduction Reflections on the Motive of Fire, and on Machines Fitted to Develop That Power by Sadi Carnot, translated and edited by R. H. Thurston Appendix: Selections from Posthumous Manuscripts of Carnot, translated by R. H. Thurston and E. Mendoza Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat by É. Clapeyron, translated and edited by E. Mendoza On the Motive Power of Heat, and on the Laws Which Can Be Deduced from it for the Theory of Heat by R. Clausius, translated by W. F. Magie

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