Christian Ludwig Gerling studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss, obtaining his doctorate in 1812 for his thesis Methodi proiectionis orthographicae usum ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit simulque eclipsin solarem die at the University of Göttingen.
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Christian Ludwig Gerling studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss, obtaining his doctorate in 1812 for his thesis Methodi proiectionis orthographicae usum ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit simulque eclipsin solarem die at the University of Göttingen. He is notable for his work on geodetics, and in 1927 some 60 letters of correspondence between Gerling and Gauss on the topic were published. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Julius Plücker.
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