Caro, Elme

From Philosopedia

Carnot, Sadi Nicolas Léonard (1796—1832) Carnot was a French physicist, the son of L. N. M. Carnot. A freethinker, he wrote Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (1824), containing what is known as “Carnot’s Principle” and which laid the foundations of the science of thermodynamics. {RAT}