Craig Fraser

Theoria combinationis observationum erroribus minimis obnoxiae. Carl Friedrich Gauss , G. W. Stewart

Jeremy Gray. The Real and the Complex: A History of Analysis in the Nineteenth Century. (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series.) xvi + 350 pp., figs., illus., apps., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2015. €36 (paper).

Suzanne Féry (Editor).Aventures de l'analyse de Fermat à Borel: Mélanges en l'honneur de Christian Gilain. (Histoires de Géométries.) 728 pp., illus., bibl., index. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2012. €30 (paper).

Roger Hahn (Editor).Correspondance de Pierre Simon Laplace (1749–1827). Volumes 1 and 2. xiv + 1,416 pp., illus., tables, index. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2012. €120 (cloth).

Martin Harwit.In Search of the True Universe: The Tools, Shaping, and Cost of Cosmological Thought. xvii + 393 pp., illus., tables, apps., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

50 (cloth).

Barbara J. Becker.Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy. xix + 380 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

110 (cloth).

Jörn Henrich.Die Fixierung des modernen Wissenschaftsideals durch Laplace. 247 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2010. €59.80 (cloth).

Ursula Goldenbaum;, Douglas Jesseph (Editors).Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries. vi + 327 pp., bibl., index. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. €72.90 (cloth).