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BODE, JOHANN ELERT (17471826)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 108 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BODE, JOHANN ELERT (17471826) , German astronomer, was born at Hamburg on the 19th of January 1747. Devoted to astronomy from his earliest years, he eagerly observed the heavens at a garret window with a telescope made by himself, and at nineteen began his career with the publication of a short
work
  on the solar eclipse of the 5th of August 1766. This was followed by an elementary treatise on astronomy entitled Anleitung zur Kenntniss des gestirnten Himmels (1768, loth ed.1844), the success of which led to his being summoned to Berlin in 1772 for the purpose of computing ephemerides on an improved plan. There resulted the foundation by him, in 1774, of the well-known Astronomisches Jahrbuch, 51 yearly volumes of which he compiled and issued. He became director of the Berlin
observatory
  in 1786, withdrew from official life in 1825, and died at Berlin on the 23rd of November 1826. His works were highly effective in diffusing throughout Germany a
taste
  for astronomy. Besides those already mentioned he wrote:Sammlung astronomischer Tafeln (3 vols., 1776); Erlauterung der Sternkunde (1776, 3rd ed. 1808); Uranographia (1801), a collection of 20
star
 -maps accompanied by a catalogue of 17,240 stars and nebulae. In one of his numerous incidental essays he propounded, in 1776, a theory of the solar constitution similar to that developed in 1795 by Sir William Herschel. He gave currency, moreover, to the empirical
rule
  known as " Bode's Law," which was actually announced by Johann Daniel Titius of Wittenberg in 1772. It is expressed by the statement that the proportionate distances of the several
planets
  from the sun may be represented by adding 4 to each
term
  of the
series
 ; 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, &c. The irregularity will be noticed of the first
term
 , which shpuld be 11 instead of o. (See SOLAR
SYSTEM
 .)
See J. F. Encke, Berlin Abhandlungen (1827), p. xi.; H. C. Schumacher. Asir. Nach. v. 255, 367 (1827);
Poggendorff
 , Biog. literarisches Handworterbuch; Allgemeine deutsche Biographic, iii. 1.


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