Ferdinand Ernst Karl count of Herberstein (died 1720) was a German mathematician and a military officer.
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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