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Sadi Carnot’s 1824 ‘Réflexions sur la Puissance Motrice des Machines à Feu’ is an extraordinary piece of scientific literature: a very short one, containing not a single mathematical formula. It turns an easily observed twin-faced fact into a far-reaching principle yielding, even today, an understanding and intercorrelation of innumerable phenomena. It seems that it was perhaps intended as a brochure for launching a company building steam engines.
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de Beauregard, O.C. (1987). Phenomenological Irreversibility. In: Time, The Physical Magnitude. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 99. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3811-3_9
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