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According to the author of the present paper, in a 1985 manuscript entitled ``Monadologie'', \textit{E. Kähler} computed the zeta function [as defined by himself in ``Geometria aritmetica'', Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., IV. Ser. 45 (1958; Zbl 0142.18101)] of the arithmetic curve \(ax^2 + bxy + cy^2 = 0\) in \({\mathbb P}_{\mathbb Z}^1\), where \(a\), \(b\), and \(c\) are integers with no common factor and where the discriminant \(\Delta = b^2 - 4ac\) is implicitly assumed to be a non-square. The paper under review gives an exposition of Kähler's calculation, which shows that the zeta function of the curve is equal to the product of the Dedekind zeta function of the quadratic field \({\mathbb Q}(\sqrt{\Delta})\) with a finite number of Euler factors that depend on the conductor of the quadratic order of discriminant \(\Delta\). The author also gives a simplified version of Kähler's proof of an expression for the same zeta function in terms of Eisenstein series, in the special case where \(a=1\) and \(\Delta < 0\). The author notes that Kähler's result appears (in different terminology) in a 1976 paper of \textit{D.~Zagier} [in: Modular Funct. of one Var. VI, Proc. int. Conf., Bonn 1976, Lect. Notes Math. 627, 105-169 (1977; Zbl 0372.10017)].