Sadi Carnot's Cycle and A. Volta's Pile        

In this article I investigate on the origin of the idea of cycle in S. Carno ’ Theory according to hypothesis about analogy to the electric circuit of Volta ’s Pile. I perform, at first, a historical analysis (also of fundaments) of the Réflexions sur...<Continue>

  A. Volta and the strange History of electromagnetism.

Volta's experiments apparently constituted a breakthrough in the philosophy which in his time dominated the theory of electricity: he puts an electrical perpetual motion as a crucial question for theoretical physics. Common historical interpretations compare his works with ... <continue>