| RefNo | EC/1803/13 |
| Previous numbers | Cert VI, 51; A02674 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Gauss, Karl Friedrich: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Frederick Gauss, MA of Brunswick in Germany, author of a learned treatise on the higher parts of arithmetic, which he has presented to this society. Who by instituting nice calculations upon the observations of the planet Ceres, made by Mr Piazzi within the small period of six weeks, enabled Baron Zach and Dr Olbers, each seperately [sic], to rediscover it, after it had been lost ten or eleven months; and, who by similar calculations of the observations of the other new planet Pallas, has settled the astronomical theory of its orbit with sufficient exactness to enable astronomers to pursue its course in the heavens, which will afford the means of further correcting its theory; is by us the underwritten hereby recommended as a Candidate for election on the foreign list of the Royal Society |
| Proposers | Nevil Maskelyne; J Huddart; Geo Best; Stephen Lee; M Beaufoy; Wm Hershel; Jos Banks; H Cavendish; Alex Aubert; Wm H Wollaston; H C Englefield; Wm Mudge; Jos de Mendoza Rios; J Rennell |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8223 | Gauss; Karl Friedrich (1777 - 1855) | 1777 - 1855 |