Ferdinand Ernst Karl Herberstein
# Ferdinand Ernst Karl Herberstein

Ferdinand Ernst Karl count of Herberstein (died 1720) 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 1686
* Mathemata adversu umbratiles Petri Poireti impetus propugnata, Praga, 1709
* Diatome circulorum seu specimen geometricum, Praga, 1710
* Erotema politico-philologicum an studium Geometriae rempublicam administranti obstaculo sit an adminiculo?, Praga, 1712
* Herberstein, Ferdinand Ernst Karl (1716). Cyclo-diatomia (in Latin). Pragae: typis universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Collegio sJesu ad sClementem.
* (Amari de Lapide) De machinis pro rei tormentariae incremento etc. tractandis
* (Amari de Lapide) Artis technicae via plana et facilis, Stettino 1736
