Theorie der Bewegung der Himmelskorper welche in Kegelschnitten die Sonne Umlaufen. Mit einem Anhange, sowie mit einer photographischen Abbildung der von Sr. Majestat dem Konige Georg V. von Hannover gestifteten Gauss-Medaille, einer Abbildung des Gauss'schen Geburtshauses in Braunschweig und dem Facsimile der Gauss'schen lateinischen und deutschen Handschrift
by Gauss, Carl Friedrich; ins Deutsche ubertragen von Carl Haase
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Carl Mayer, Hannover, 1865. First German edition.. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, hardcover, no dj. Bound in contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering, raised bands at spine. Vg condition. Occasional, light interior foxing, chiefly to opening & closing pgs as expected, otherwise clean, no markings, no brittleness to pgs; binding & hinges firm. Board corners mildly bumped, just barely rubbed through; spine leather quite glossy & supple with a 1-inch chip at the lower spine. xvi, 279 pp., [1] plate of geometric figures, A-F + 72 pp. of tables and text, [1] page "Fehler-Verzeichniss der deutschen Uebersetzung." Illus. w/ frontis. plate of front and rear of the King George V of Hanover endowed Gauss medal, a lithograph of Gauss's birth house in Braunschweig, and a facscimile of his German & Latin handwriting. With a Latin half-title page prefixed: Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium. The commissioned German edition of the Theoria, originally published in Latin in 1809.
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- Title
- Theorie der Bewegung der Himmelskorper welche in Kegelschnitten die Sonne Umlaufen. Mit einem Anhange, sowie mit einer photographischen Abbildung der von Sr. Majestat dem Konige Georg V. von Hannover gestifteten Gauss-Medaille, einer Abbildung des Gauss'schen Geburtshauses in Braunschweig und dem Facsimile der Gauss'schen lateinischen und deutschen Handschrift
- Author
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich; ins Deutsche ubertragen von Carl Haase
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First German edition.
- Publisher
- Carl Mayer, Hannover
- Date Published
- 1865
- Keywords
- 19th, Astronomy, Century, Constant, Gaussian, Gravitational, History, Least, Mathematics, Method, Of, Orbital, Orbits, Planetary, Planets, Science, Squares
- Bookseller catalogs
- History of Science;
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