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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 Blagg and Richardson significantly revised...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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