Ferdinand Ernst Karl Herberstein


Ferdinand Ernst Karl count of Herberstein was a German mathematician and a military officer.

Life

Son of Karl Sigmund, he lived in Bohemia. He wrote several books about mathematics and geometry. Some of the books are signed using the pseudonym of "Amari de Lapide".

Works

Norma et regula statica intersectione circulorum desumta, Praga 1686Mathemata adversu umbratiles Petri Poireti impetus propugnata, Praga, 1709Diatome circulorum seu specimen geometricum, Praga, 1710Erotema politico-philologicum an studium Geometriae rempublicam administranti obstaculo sit an adminiculo?, Praga, 1712De machinis pro rei tormentariae incremento etc. tractandisArtis technicae via plana et facilis, Stettino 1736