Abstract
TEN years have elapsed since the first part of this volume appeared (NATURE, vol. lxi., p. 486), the editor having been prevented by other occupations from completing his work, until he secured the cooperation of Dr. Kramer. The present part (or rather volume) comprises the years from 1820 to the death of Olbers in 1840. Although it forms part of a publication intended to keep alive the memory of Olbers, the real hero of this volume is Gauss, not only because he was a greater man than his correspondent, but also because the scientific work of Olbers was almost finished before 1820. All the same, the volume serves to complete the picture of the charming personality of Olbers with which previously published letters had supplied us, while it almost forms a diary of the scientific work of Gauss during the years 1820–40.
Wilhelm Olbers, sein Leben und seine Werke.
Im Auftrage der Nachkommen herausgegeben von Dr. C. Schilling. Zweiter Band, Briefwechsel zwischen Olbers und Gauss, Zweite Abtheilung. Pp. vi+758. (Berlin: J. Springer, 1909.) Price 16 marks.
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D., J. Wilhelm Olbers, sein Leben und seine Werke . Nature 83, 211–212 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083211a0
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