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Publication of the Work entitled " Reflections on the 



Metaphysics of the Infinitesimal Calculus " 60 



Carnot being " Fructidorise " is obliged to recur to Flight. 

 He is erased from the List of the Institute, and suc- 

 ceeded by General Bonaparte 65 



18th Brumaire. Return of Carnot to France. His Nom- 

 ination to be Minister of War. His Dismissal. His 



Appointment to the Tribunate 75 



Publication of the Geometry of Position 77 



Carnot Inventor of a New System of Fortification 84 



Publication of the Treatise on the Defence of Fortresses. 94 



Carnot an Academician 95 



Events of 1813. Carnot appointed to the Command at 



Antwerp 95 



Conduct of Carnot during the Hundred Days 100 



Carnot in Exile. His Death 102 



Portrait of Carnot. Anecdotes relative to his political 

 and private Life 104 



MALUS. 



Birth of Malus. His Literary Education. His Admis- 

 sion to the Polytechnic School 117 



Egyptian Campaign. Extracts from the Memoranda of 



Malus 120 



Marriage of Mains. His Military Career 133 



Memoir on Light. Composed in Egypt 135 



Treatise on Analytical Optics- < 138 



Memoir on the Refractive Power of Opaque Bodies. ... 139 

 Malus gains the Prize proposed by the Academy for a 



Mathematical Theory of Double Refraction 147 



Discovery of Polarization by Reflexion- 148 



Letter from Young to Malus 158 



