Gauss, CARL

FRIED RICH, 1777-1855. Director of the Göttingen observatory from 1807. Among his many important contributions to science, perhaps the most prominent are the The or i a Motus Corporum Cælestium, 1809, and the method of least squares. Dis qui sit i ones Arithmeticæ, 1801; Circa Super ficies Curvas, 1827; Geodasie, 1843-46; Works, 7 vols., 1863-71. Gau en, FRANÇOIS SAMUEL ROBERT LOUIS, 1790-1863. Founder, with Merle d'Aubigné, of the Evangelical Society and its theological seminary at Geneva; prof. there from 1836. His Theopneust i a, 1840, defends verbal inspiration. Daniel, 3 vols., 1839-49; Canon of Holy Scriptures, 1860.