GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium . Hamburg: Frid. Perthes and I.H. Besser, 1809. 4 o (285 x 227 mm). Engraved plate (some light spotting). (Title-page spotted and lightly soiled, some scattered light foxing.) Contemporary half morocco (joints splitting at head of spine, minor wear at extremities). Provenance : R.R. Blum (presentation inscription from the author on the title-page: "Seinem verehrten Freunde, Hrn. R.R. Blum, vom Verrfasser"). PRESENTATION COPY OF THE 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). GAUSS PRESENTATIONS ARE RARE. See Dibner, Heralds of Science 114n; see PMM 257n; Norman 879.
GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium . Hamburg: Frid. Perthes and I.H. Besser, 1809. 4 o (285 x 227 mm). Engraved plate (some light spotting). (Title-page spotted and lightly soiled, some scattered light foxing.) Contemporary half morocco (joints splitting at head of spine, minor wear at extremities). Provenance : R.R. Blum (presentation inscription from the author on the title-page: "Seinem verehrten Freunde, Hrn. R.R. Blum, vom Verrfasser"). PRESENTATION COPY OF THE 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). GAUSS PRESENTATIONS ARE RARE. See Dibner, Heralds of Science 114n; see PMM 257n; Norman 879.
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