BESSEL, FRIEDRICH WILHELM - HERSCHEL, J.F.W.

A brief notice of the life, researches, and discoveries of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel.

London, George Barclay, 1847. Contemporary half cloth. Sm. 8vo. 16 pp. Library stamps on titlepage.

First edition. Offprint from the Annual Report of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (22 July 1784 - 17 March 1846) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli). He was a contemporary of Carl Gauss, also a mathematician and astronomer. The asteroid 1552 Bessel was named in his honour.

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