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Johann Elert Bode (January 19, 1747 – November 23, 1826) was a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 astronomer
Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
 known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius-Bode law
Titius-Bode law

The Titius?Bode law is a hypothesis that the bodies in some orbital systems, including the Sun's, orbit at semi-major axis in an exponential function of planetary sequence....
. Bode determined the orbit
ORBit

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 of Uranus and suggested the planet's name.

was born in Hamburg
Hamburg

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. As a youth, he suffered from an eye disease which particularly damaged his right eye; he continued to have trouble with his eyes throughout his life.

Bode was the director of the Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 Observatory, where he published the Uranographia in 1801, a celestial atlas that aimed both at scientific accuracy in showing the positions of star
Star

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s and other astronomical object
Astronomical object

s are significant entity, associations or structures which current science has confirmed to exist in outer space. This does not necessarily mean that more current science will not disprove their existence....
s, as well as the artistic interpretation of the stellar constellation
Constellation

A constellation is a group of stars that appear to have a physical proximity in the sky. The stars in a constellation are often vastly distant from each other, but they appear close to each other from the perspective of Earth....
 figures.






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Johann Elert Bode (January 19, 1747 – November 23, 1826) was a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 astronomer
Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
 known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius-Bode law
Titius-Bode law

The Titius?Bode law is a hypothesis that the bodies in some orbital systems, including the Sun's, orbit at semi-major axis in an exponential function of planetary sequence....
. Bode determined the orbit
ORBit

ORBit is a Common Object Request Broker Architecture 2.4 compliant Object Request Broker . It features mature C , C++ and Python bindings, and less developed bindings for Perl, Lisp , Pascal , Ruby , and Tcl....
 of Uranus and suggested the planet's name.

Biography

Bode was born in Hamburg
Hamburg

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
. As a youth, he suffered from an eye disease which particularly damaged his right eye; he continued to have trouble with his eyes throughout his life.

Bode was the director of the Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 Observatory, where he published the Uranographia in 1801, a celestial atlas that aimed both at scientific accuracy in showing the positions of star
Star

A star is a massive, luminous ball of Plasma that is held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth....
s and other astronomical object
Astronomical object

s are significant entity, associations or structures which current science has confirmed to exist in outer space. This does not necessarily mean that more current science will not disprove their existence....
s, as well as the artistic interpretation of the stellar constellation
Constellation

A constellation is a group of stars that appear to have a physical proximity in the sky. The stars in a constellation are often vastly distant from each other, but they appear close to each other from the perspective of Earth....
 figures. The Uranographia marks the climax of an epoch of artistic representation of the constellations. Later atlases showed fewer and fewer elaborate figures until they were no longer printed on such tables.

Bode also published an astronomical yearbook, another small star atlas, intended for astronomical amateurs (Vorstellung der Gestirne), and an introductory book on the constellations and their tales, which was reprinted more than ten times. He is credited with the discovery of Bode's Galaxy (M81). Comet Bode (C/1779 A1) is named after him; its orbit was calculated by Erik Prosperin
Erik Prosperin

Erik Prosperin was a Sweden astronomer.Prosperin was a lecturer in mathematics and physics at Uppsala University in 1767, professor of observational astronomy in 1773 – 1796, and professor of Astronomy in 1797 – 1798....
.

From 1787 to 1825 Bode was director of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut.

Bode died in Berlin on November 23, 1826, aged 79.

Selected writings


  • 1772 Anleitung zur Kentniss des Gestirnten Himmels (The most famous of Bode's writings. In this work, he first announced Bode's law
    Titius-Bode law

    The Titius?Bode law is a hypothesis that the bodies in some orbital systems, including the Sun's, orbit at semi-major axis in an exponential function of planetary sequence....
    .)
  • 1774-1957 Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch für 1776-1959 (The astronomical yearbook
    Almanac

    An almanac is an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar. Astronomy data and various statistics are also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of church es, terms of...
     published by Berlin Observatory
    Berlin Observatory

    The Berlin Observatory has its origins in 1700 when Gottfried Leibniz initiated the Societ?t der Wissenschaften which would later become the Preu?ischen Akademie der Wissenschaften ....
    .)
  • 1782 Vorstellung der Gestirne ... des Flamsteadschen Himmelsatlas (Bode's revised and enlarged edition of Fortin's small star atlas of Flamsteed
    John Flamsteed

    John Flamsteed Fellow of the Royal Society was an England astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal....
    .)
Verzeichniss (Containing the above star atlas, and including 5,058 stars observed by Flamsteed, Hevelius
Johannes Hevelius

Johannes Hevelius , also called Johannes Hewel, Johann Hewelke, Johannes H?welcke in German language, or Jan Heweliusz , , was a Protestant councillor and mayor in History of Gdansk , As an astronomer he gained the reputation of "the founder of lunar topography" and invented ten new constellations, seven of which are still r...
, T. Mayer, de la Caille
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille

Abb? Nicolas Louis de Lacaille was a France astronomer.He is noted for his catalogue of nearly 10,000 southern stars, including 42 nebulous objects....
, Messier
Charles Messier

Charles Messier was a France astronomy most notable for publishing an astronomical catalog consisting of deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 103 "Messier objects"....
, le Monnier
Pierre Charles Le Monnier

Pierre Charles Le Monnier was a France astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Lemonnier....
, Darquier
Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix

Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix was a French astronomer. He discovered the Ring Nebula in 1779.External links*...
 and Bode himself.)
  • 1801 Uranographia sive Astrorum Descriptio (A large star atlas illustrated with twenty copper plates.)
Allgemeine Beschreibung und Nachweisung der Gestirne (A star catalogue listing 17,240 stars.)

Further reading


- Acta Historica Astronomiae, Vol. 30 - A new, comprehensive biography and the source for some of the material on this page.

External links

  • - last retrieved in Sep 7, 2007,
  • - last retrieved in Sep 7, 2007,
  • , with links to his deepsky observations and discoveries