GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium, Hamburg: Frid. Perthes et I.H. Besser, 1809, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved plate, letterpress tables bound in after the Preface, contemporary boards with calf back (corners worn, shelf-mark on spine). [Honeyman 1451; Houzeau & Lancaster 11897; Norman 879; Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 81] Provenance: JCL

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GAUSS, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium, Hamburg: Frid. Perthes et I.H. Besser, 1809, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved plate, letterpress tables bound in after the Preface, contemporary boards with calf back (corners worn, shelf-mark on spine). [Honeyman 1451; Houzeau & Lancaster 11897; Norman 879; Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 81] Provenance: JCL

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AN ATTRACTIVE COPY without internal library markings. This work expounds the method of orbit calculation using "least squares" which Gauss had developed in 1801, and which had enabled the astronomer Heinrich Olbers to locate the planetoid Ceres, the earliest discovered of the "asteroids."

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