Johann Elert Bode

Johann Elert Bode (January 19th 1747 with Hamburg - November 23rd 1826 with Berlin) is a German Astronome known to have reformulated and have popularized the Loi of Titius-Bode and to have calculated the Orbite of Uranus, of which it also suggested the name. One in addition owes him the discovery of the galaxy of Bode (M81).

He is director of the observatory of Berlin where he publishes Uranographia in 1801, a work which aims to scientific exactitude by giving the positions of the star S and others celestial objects while proposing in parallel an artistic interpretation of the Constellation S. Uranographia mark thus at the same time the apogee and end the one time, this kind of artistic figures having ended up disappearing entirely from the catalogs.

He also published a more concise stellar atlas bound for the astronomers amateurs, the Vorstellung der Gestirne , and a book of introduction to the constellations and their legends, reprinted more than ten times. He made appear moreover astronomical Ephémérides (1774 - 1826). He becomes member of the Royal Society in 1789.

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Boards of the atlas '' Vorstellung der Gestirne ''

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