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Gauss' copy of LaPlace's celestial mechanics

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Gauss' copy of LaPlace's celestial mechanics

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Description

Heading: (Gauss, Carl Friedrich)
Author: Laplace, Pierre Simon de
Title: Mechanik des Himmels
Place Published: Berlin
Publisher:F.T. LaGarde
Date Published: 1800
Description:

Volume I (of 2) only. [2], viii, 482 pp. Translated from French to German by Johann Karl Burckhardt. (4to) 25.7x21 cm (10x8¼"), period boards. First Edition in German.

Gauss' copy of Laplace's masterwork on celestial mechanics, one of the supreme works of 18th century physics. With "Gauss-Bibliothek" stamp on title page along with that of the Gottingen Observatory, of which Gauss was the first director. A remarkable association, linking three of the greatest minds of modern science: Newton, Laplace ("the French Newton"), and Gauss, "the prince of mathematicians" and himself the author of several major works of mathematical astronomy.

Condition

Some rubbing and light war to covers; small ink spot to fore-edge of about 50 pages; withdrawal rubberstamp on front pastedown; very good or better.

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Gauss' copy of LaPlace's celestial mechanics

Name: Gauss' copy of LaPlace's celestial mechanics
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Price: 2500 USD
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