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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 ^S 



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 ^^ 



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 Malus. — 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 



