GESCHICHTE DER MATHEMATIK IN DEUTSCHLAND. [German text/black letter.]

by Gerhardt, C.I

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Munich:: Oldenbourg,, 1877. Hardcover; bookplates of Hamilton College (NY), & Hamilton astronomer C.H.F. Peters; no card pocket or spine marks/label; corners worn; .75x1-inch label removal spot at top of front cover, crudely recolored.. One in the `Geschichte der Wissenschaft in Deutschland' series--complete in itself. ||| 3 books in one--(1) to middle of 17th cent.; (2) thence to end of 18th cent.; (3) thence to middle of 19th cent. ||| Reviews work of Regiomontanus, Duerer, Copernicus, Rheticus, Otho, Leibniz, Jacob & Johann Bernoulli, Johann Lambert, Carl Gauss, Niels Abel, Peter Gustave Dirichlet, et al. ||| Located in Harvard Library & Library of Congress ||| C.H.F. Peters (1813-90); `his solar observations were noteworthy...discovered 48 new asteroids...[prepared] new edition of star catalogue in Ptolemy's Almagest [posthumous publication 1915]'--DAB.