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Born January 19, 1747 • Hamburg • Germany
Died November 23, 1826 (aged 79) • Berlin • Germany
Notable Works “Astronomisches Jahrbuch” • “Uranographia”
Subjects Of Study Bode’s law • solar system

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The constellation Aries (the Ram) and others, from Johann E. Bode's Uranographia, 1801. The constellation Musca (the Fly) shown here is obsolete: the modern constellation Musca is in the southern skies.
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Johannes Kepler
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William Herschel
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Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
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Johannes Hevelius.
Johannes Hevelius
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Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander
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British-Italian publisher
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Scottish publisher
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Scottish publisher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
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British artist and author
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Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist

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