GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium. Hamburg: Friedrich Perthes and I.H. Besser, 1809.
GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium. Hamburg: Friedrich Perthes and I.H. Besser, 1809. 4° (292 x 242 mm). Engraved plate. (Light browning, occasional insignificant spotting). Modern cloth (extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. 'In this work Gauss systematically developed the method of orbit calculation from three observations he had devised in 1801 to locate the planetoid Ceres, the earliest discovered of the "asteroids," which had been spotted and lost by G. Piazzi in January 1801' (Norman 879). See Dibner Heralds of Science 114n; see PMM 257n.
GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium. Hamburg: Friedrich Perthes and I.H. Besser, 1809.
GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium. Hamburg: Friedrich Perthes and I.H. Besser, 1809. 4° (292 x 242 mm). Engraved plate. (Light browning, occasional insignificant spotting). Modern cloth (extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. 'In this work Gauss systematically developed the method of orbit calculation from three observations he had devised in 1801 to locate the planetoid Ceres, the earliest discovered of the "asteroids," which had been spotted and lost by G. Piazzi in January 1801' (Norman 879). See Dibner Heralds of Science 114n; see PMM 257n.
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