Berlin, G.Reimer, 1843. 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from ""Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle"", Bd. XXVI, Heft 3, Titlepage to ""Heft"" 3 present. PP. 185-216.
First printing of Heine's doctoral dissertation. ""Heine in his doctoral dissertation determined the potential (steady-state temperature) nor merely for the interior of an ellipsoid of revolution when the value when the potential is given at the surface, but also for the exterior for such an ellipsoid anf for the shell between confocal ellipsoids of revolution."" (Morris Kline).