Theoria Motus
or a THEORIA MOTUS CORPORUM CELESTIUM, the names by which is usually quoted the work of Gauss, in which he first showed the method of computing an orbit from three determinations of a planet's or comet's position, and thus rescued astronomers from the danger of losing the newly discovered asteroid Ceres after it had disappeared in the region of the sun. of the The full title of the work is "Theoria Motus Corporum Cœlestium in Sectionibus Conicis Solum Ambientium." It was first published at Hamburg in 1809. An English translation by Rear-Admiral C.
H. Davis, U. S. N., then superintendent of the Nautical Almanac Office, was published in Boston in 1857, at the joint expense of the "Nautical Alrianac" Office Almanac" Office and the Smithsonian Institution. A French translation by Dubois was published at Paris in 1864, and a German one by Hasse at Hanover in 1865. The Hanover in 1865.
The work also contains an exposition of the east Squares, theory of the method of Least Squares, and is one of the most important astroand is one of the most important nomical works extant.