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This chapter is dominated by letters between Gauss and Olbers , who kept up a lively correspondence for many years. Other correspondents included here are Bessel, Encke, Gerling, Hansen, Laplace , Maskelyne (Fig. 8.1), Nicolai and Zach .
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For a brief historical overview of the discovery of nutation and its role as a source of uncertainty, see Belenkiy and Vila-Echague 2016. It was d’Alembert who provided analytical proof of nutation’s existence in 1749.
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Three notable comets appeared in the year 1618. See Drake and O′Malley (1960)
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Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749–1822) was appointed director of Paris Observatory in 1804. He was one of the early observers of Pallas, and wrote about Bode’s law (see Chapter 11 in this book)
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Scottish instrument maker James Short made many telescopes used in Germany.
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See Vol. VI, p. 1 of Gauss Werke; see Brendel and Schlesinger.
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Cunningham, C.J. (2017). The Gauss Letters. In: Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32848-5_8
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