Determinatio attractionis: quam in punctum quodvis positionis datae exerceret planeta, si eius massa per totam orbitam, ratione temporis, quo singulae partes describuntur, uniformiter esset dispertita.
Göttingen: Dieterich, 1818. First edition, very rare separately-paginated offprint, preceding the journal appearance in Commentationes Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis (vol. 4, pp. 21-48) by two years. “In his first years at Göttingen, Gauss experienced a second upsurge of ideas and publications in various fields of mathematics. Among the latter were several..... More
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