GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). 'Allgemeine Lehrsätze in Beziehung auf die im verkehrten Verhältnisse des Quadrats der Entfernung wirkenden Anziehungs- und Abstossungs-Kräfte.' Offprint from: Resultate aus den Beobachtungen des Magnetischen Vereins: im Jahre 1839. Leipzig: Weidmann, 1840. Fine copy of Gauss' extremely rare offprint on terrestrial magnetism, demonstrating the first systematic mathematical treatments of potential theory. The work contains 'a set of partial differential equations developed in the eighteenth century in connection with research on gravitational attraction, and applied in the nineteenth century to problems of heat conduction'. Gauss, together with the physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891), 'organised the Magnetischen Verein, a society that united a worldwide network of magnetic observatories and established an important precedent for international scientific cooperation. They also published the society's journal, Resultate aus den Beobachtungen des Magnetischen Vereins (1837-1843), which contained ... fifteen papers by Gauss and twenty-three by Weber' (Norman I, p.312). Norman 882. Octavo (241 x 159mm). (Tiny insignficant marginal chip at head of title, otherwise a clean, fresh copy.) Original paper-backed plain boards, unopened and uncut (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance : Bibliothek der Königl. Sternwarte Göttingen, Gauss-Bibliothek (stamps on title and front board, with deaccession stamp on title with date of 21 Sept 1951 in pencil).
GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). 'Allgemeine Lehrsätze in Beziehung auf die im verkehrten Verhältnisse des Quadrats der Entfernung wirkenden Anziehungs- und Abstossungs-Kräfte.' Offprint from: Resultate aus den Beobachtungen des Magnetischen Vereins: im Jahre 1839. Leipzig: Weidmann, 1840. Fine copy of Gauss' extremely rare offprint on terrestrial magnetism, demonstrating the first systematic mathematical treatments of potential theory. The work contains 'a set of partial differential equations developed in the eighteenth century in connection with research on gravitational attraction, and applied in the nineteenth century to problems of heat conduction'. Gauss, together with the physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891), 'organised the Magnetischen Verein, a society that united a worldwide network of magnetic observatories and established an important precedent for international scientific cooperation. They also published the society's journal, Resultate aus den Beobachtungen des Magnetischen Vereins (1837-1843), which contained ... fifteen papers by Gauss and twenty-three by Weber' (Norman I, p.312). Norman 882. Octavo (241 x 159mm). (Tiny insignficant marginal chip at head of title, otherwise a clean, fresh copy.) Original paper-backed plain boards, unopened and uncut (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance : Bibliothek der Königl. Sternwarte Göttingen, Gauss-Bibliothek (stamps on title and front board, with deaccession stamp on title with date of 21 Sept 1951 in pencil).
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