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    Johann Elert Bode (German: [ˈboːdə]; 19 January 1747 – 23 November 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the...
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  • as a predictor of Neptune's orbit. It is named after Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode. Later work by Mary Adela Blagg and D.E. Richardson significantly...
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    symbolic representation of Sagittarius published in Uranographia by Johann Elert Bode. In tropical astrology, there is no correspondence between the constellation...
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  • the same day, 11 April 1779. He worked with the noted astronomer Johann Elert Bode, who refined and published Köhler's proposal for the symbol of Uranus...
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    In a March 1782 treatise, Johann Elert Bode proposed Uranus, the Latinised version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos. Bode argued that the name should...
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    and in 1787 he went to Berlin and studied practical astronomy under J. E. Bode. In 1788, Pfaff became professor of mathematics in Helmstedt, and continued...
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    first depicted in the Uranographia sive Astrorum Descriptio (1801) of Johann Elert Bode. It is now obsolete. Its brightest star, HD 85951, was named Felis...
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    Medii to the southeast. The crater was named after German astronomer Johann Elert Bode. This crater is bowl-shaped, with a small interior floor and a ridge...
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    containing stars between β Bootis (Nekkar) and η Ursae Majoris (Alkaid). Johann Elert Bode converted its name to Latin as Quadrans Muralis and shrank the constellation...
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    In 1772, German astronomer Johann Elert Bode, citing Johann Daniel Titius, published a formula later known as the Titius–Bode law that appeared to predict...
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    Messier 81 (redirect from Bode's Galaxy)
    Messier 81 was first discovered by Johann Elert Bode on 31 December 1774. Thus, it is sometimes referred to as "Bode's Galaxy". In 1779, Pierre Méchain...
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    Messier 82 (category Discoveries by Johann Elert Bode)
    fourth such event ever detected). M82, with M81, was discovered by Johann Elert Bode in 1774; he described it as a "nebulous patch", this one about 3⁄4...
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    was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier the next...
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    upon by Joseph Johann von Littrow, who described it as the "conspicuous triangle" in the text of his atlas (1866), and Johann Elert Bode connected the...
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  • 1782, and second in German translation and somewhat rearranged by Johann Elert Bode in the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch for 1786. J'ajouterai seulement...
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    Friedhelm, ed. (2014). Der Briefwechsel zwischen Carl Friedrich Gauß und Johann Elert Bode. Acta Historica Astronomica (in German). Vol. 53. Leipzig: Akademische...
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    is known as Phaëton in astronomy and often dubbed "Bodia" (after Johann Elert Bode) in science fiction. Bodia was popular in the pulp era of science...
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    courses by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Paul Erman, Johann Elert Bode, Ernst Gottfried Fischer, Johann Horkel, Friedrich Christian Rosenthal and Hinrich...
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    blind. As a mathematics teacher he mentored and helped the young Johann Elert Bode, who later became a famous astronomer. Besides a history of trade...
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  • inventor Jace Bode (born 1987), Australian footballer Jana Bode (born 1969), German luger Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826), German astronomer Johann Joachim Christoph...
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    Piscis Notius and used by German celestial cartographers Johann Bayer and Johann Elert Bode. Bayer also called it Piscis Meridanus and Piscis Austrinus...
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    spectral type G5.5III and apparent magnitude 5.21, was labelled by Johann Elert Bode and retained by Benjamin Gould, who deemed it bright enough to warrant...
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    (the Hand of Justice and Sceptre) to honor Louis XIV in 1670, and Johann Elert Bode, who created Frederici Honores (Frederick's Glory) to honor Frederick...
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    British Astronomical Association. 79: 213. Bibcode:1969JBAA...79..213J. Johann Elert Bode (1801). Allgemeine Beschreibung und Nachweisung der Gestirne: Nebst...
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    1801 Johann Elert Bode Lumbricus Lumbrici Earthworm 1754 John Hill Machina Electrica Machinae Electricae Electricity generator 1800 Johann Elert Bode Malus...
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    stars visible only to the naked eye, making it less cluttered. Unlike Johann Elert Bode and Jean Nicolas Fortin, who followed John Flamsteed's depictions...
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  • (Netherlands, 1914–2010) Nathaniel Bliss (United Kingdom, 1700–1764) Johann Elert Bode (Germany, 1747–1826) Alfred Bohrmann (Germany, 1904–2000) Bart Bok...
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    stars. 1729 Atlas Coelestis by John Flamsteed 1801 Uranographia by Johann Elert Bode 1843 Uranometria Nova by Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander 1914 Franklin-Adams...
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    Messier 53 (category Discoveries by Johann Elert Bode)
    cluster in the Coma Berenices constellation. It was discovered by Johann Elert Bode in 1775. M53 is one of the more outlying globular clusters, being...
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    Messier 92 (category Discoveries by Johann Elert Bode)
    stars in the northern constellation of Hercules. It was discovered by Johann Elert Bode on December 27, 1777, then published in the Berliner Astronomisches...
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