Theory of the Heavenly Bodies Moving About the Sun in Conic Sections: A Translation of Gauss's "Theoria Motus." With an Appendix. By Charles Henry Davis...
Boston: Little, Brown, 1857. First edition in English of Gauss' chief work on celestial mechanics, in which he introduced the principle of curvilinear triangulation and the four formulae in spherical trigonometry known as "Gauss’s Analogies," by which he was able to accurately calculate and predict orbit location. With eight engraved.....