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Dear Members, Delighted to announce the new impressive Gillispie and Pisano’s book on the history of mechanics and thermodynamics in between: *C.C. Gillispie CC, R. Pisano, **Lazare and Sadi Carnot. A scientific and Filial Relationship* *. 2nd edition. Dordrecht. Springer, NL. 2014. * *Preface by Eberhard Knobloch**.* *Pages: 500* Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who in advertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi produced work that derived from their training as engineers and went largely unnoticed by physicists for a generation or more, even though their respective work introduced concepts that proved fundamental when taken up later by other hands. There was, moreover, a filial as well as substantive relation between the work of father and son. Sadi applied to the functioning of heat engines the analysis that his father had developed in his study of the operation of ordinary machines. Specifically, Sadi's idea of a reversible process originated in the use his father made of geometric motions in the analysis of machines in general. More: <http://www.springer.com/engineering/book/978-94-017-8010-0> <http://www.springer.com/engineering/book/978-94-017-8010-0> http://www.springer.com/engineering/book/978-94-017-8010-0 Best Regards, Paolo Bussotti Scientific Collaborator of the Commission for the National Edition of Federigo Enriques' Works, Italy