Commentary on the work of Carl Friedrich Gauss, circa 1818.

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Commentary on the work of Carl Friedrich Gauss, circa 1818.

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Three volumes, dated circa 1818, with commentary, notes, and calculations on Carl Friedrich Gauss's Determinatio attracionis, quam in punctum quodvis positionis datae exerceret planeta, si eius massa per totam orbitam, ratione temporis, quo singulae partes discribuntur, uniformiter esset dispertita and Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium. Gauss's work concerned early astronomy and planetary orbits.

.35 linear foot (1 box, 1 volume)

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855.

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Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. From the guide to the Family papers, 1845-1925., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) German mathematician (mathematics, mathematical physics, astronomy, geophysics). Studied: Collegium Carolinum (Brunswick) 1792-1795; University of Göttingen 1795-1798; private researcher 1898-1806; University of Göttingen 1807 Director of Observatory and o. professor of mathematics. From th...