Title: Theory of the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies Moving about the Sun in Conic Sections: A translation of Gauss's "Theoria motus". With an appendix Author: Gauss, Carl Friedrich Place: Boston Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company Date: 1857 Description: xvii, [1], 326, [2], 40 pp. Translated by Charles Henry Davis. With 8 engraved plates. (4to) 28x22 cm (11x8¾"), modern cloth, spine lettered in gilt, new endpapers. First edition in English of Gauss' classic analysis of the problems in determining the motions of planets and comets, an epochal work in orbit theory. The translator, Charles Henry Davis, later rear admiral, began his career in the U.S. Navy in the United States Coast Survey, and from 1849 to 1855 he was the first superintendent of American Nautical Almanac Office and produced the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderate darkening to contents, very good. Item number: 287939
Title: Theory of the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies Moving about the Sun in Conic Sections: A translation of Gauss's "Theoria motus". With an appendix Author: Gauss, Carl Friedrich Place: Boston Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company Date: 1857 Description: xvii, [1], 326, [2], 40 pp. Translated by Charles Henry Davis. With 8 engraved plates. (4to) 28x22 cm (11x8¾"), modern cloth, spine lettered in gilt, new endpapers. First edition in English of Gauss' classic analysis of the problems in determining the motions of planets and comets, an epochal work in orbit theory. The translator, Charles Henry Davis, later rear admiral, began his career in the U.S. Navy in the United States Coast Survey, and from 1849 to 1855 he was the first superintendent of American Nautical Almanac Office and produced the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderate darkening to contents, very good. Item number: 287939
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