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20 Astronomia

Gauss, Carl Friedrich

Théorie du mouvement des corps célestes parcurant des sections coniques autour du soleil, 1864

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Paris, Bertrand, [1864]. In 8°. With two folded plates (browning), light foxing, contemporary binding in half parchment and decorated paper, gold title within a red morocco label on the spine, some peeling.

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First French edition of Carl Friedrich Gauss's seminal treatise, born from research initiated following Piazza's discovery of Ceres in 1801. The work systematically addresses the problem of determining the orbits of celestial bodies from incomplete observations, providing innovative mathematical tools for the study of planetary and asteroid motions. In this text, Gauss formalizes, for the first time in a rigorous manner, the method of least squares and introduces Gauss's gravitational constant, laying the foundations of modern mathematical astronomy and the analysis of observational errors.

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