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As result a new kind of theory to be applied on a class of motions... these geometric motions are that which acquire different parts of a system of bodies, without neither perturb themselves nor the other and consequently these motions do not depend on the action or reaction among the bodies, but only upon the conditions of their connections, and thus being determined only by geometry and not dependent of the rules of dynamics.

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When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.

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In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, but much grievance.

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Lazare Carnot

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Born: May 13, 1753
Died: August 2, 1823 (aged 70)
Bio: Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot, the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars, was a French politician, engineer, freemason and mathematician.

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