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  1. Johann Pfaff. Johann Elert Bode ( German: [ˈboːdə]; 19 January 1747 – 23 November 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name.

  2. Johann Elert Bode (born Jan. 19, 1747, Hamburg [Germany]—died Nov. 23, 1826, Berlin) was a German astronomer best known for his popularization of Bode’s law, or the Titius-Bode rule, an empirical mathematical expression for the relative mean distances between the Sun and its planets. Bode founded in 1774 the well-known Astronomisches ...

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  3. Feb 28, 2018 · Ultimately, German astronomer Johann Elert Bode (whose observations helped to establish the new object as a planet) named Uranus after an ancient Greek god of the sky. Bode argued that as Saturn ...

  4. Jun 11, 2018 · Bode, Johann Elert. Bode, Johann Elert (1747–1826) A German astronomer who popularized the theory, known later as Bode's law, that there is a simple arithmetical relationship between the distances from the Sun to the planets of the solar system. After the discovery of Neptune, which did not conform with the ‘law’, the idea fell into ...

  5. Johann Elert Bode1749-1826 German Astronomer and Mathematician German mathematician and astronomer Johann Elert Bode was seemingly born to teach the world about the wonders of astronomy. The child of well-educated parents, Bode early on developed a passion for astronomy and higher mathematics, and only slightly later began publishing accounts ...

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  7. solar system. Bode’s law, empirical rule giving the approximate distances of planets from the Sun. It was first announced in 1766 by the German astronomer Johann Daniel Titius but was popularized only from 1772 by his countryman Johann Elert Bode. Once suspected to have some significance regarding the formation of the solar system, Bode’s ...

  8. Nov 23, 2022 · Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826) On November 23, 1826, German astronomer Johann Elert Bode passed away. Bode is best known for his popularization of the Titius-Bode ‘s law, a hypothesis that the bodies in some orbital systems, including the Sun ‘s, orbit at semi-major axes in a function of planetary sequence. The formula suggests that ...

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