1777 Johann Elert BODE rare original handcol. – CELESTIAL CHART

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Johann Elert Bode
Published Germany, 1777.
Leaf measures 20.7 x 16.7 cms
Fine hand color
German astronomer Johann Elert Bode was the astronomer of the Academy of Science in Berlin and director of the Berlin Observatory. Uranographia was his most noted contribution to astronomy, contained 18 celestial maps of constellations, stars, and nebulae. Over17,000 stars (12,000 more than had appeared in earlier charts), 2,500 nebulae (which had been catalogued in the late 1700s by William Herschel), and the constellations delineated over the past three centuries were depicted with attention to accuracy. He also included original constellation designs based on scientific instruments, including a tribute to Herschel called Herschel’s Telescope, as well as reinterpretations of the traditional constellations that diverged from conventional depictions. After Bode, major celestial atlases became less artistic and more utilitarian, dispensing with pictorial representations of constellation figures and replacing them with lines that defined their boundaries. Bode is also known for devising a formula to express the relative distances of the planets in our solar system from the sun, which is known as Bode’s Law.
ITEM CONDITION: View images carefully. Age spotting to margins. Folds as issued.
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1777 Johann Elert BODE rare original handcol. – CELESTIAL CHART
DESCRIPTION
Johann Elert Bode
Published Germany, 1777.
Leaf measures 20.7 x 16.7 cms
Fine hand color
German astronomer Johann Elert Bode was the astronomer of the Academy of Science in Berlin and director of the Berlin Observatory. Uranographia was his most noted contribution to astronomy, contained 18 celestial maps of constellations, stars, and nebulae. Over17,000 stars (12,000 more than had appeared in earlier charts), 2,500 nebulae (which had been catalogued in the late 1700s by William Herschel), and the constellations delineated over the past three centuries were depicted with attention to accuracy. He also included original constellation designs based on scientific instruments, including a tribute to Herschel called Herschel’s Telescope, as well as reinterpretations of the traditional constellations that diverged from conventional depictions. After Bode, major celestial atlases became less artistic and more utilitarian, dispensing with pictorial representations of constellation figures and replacing them with lines that defined their boundaries. Bode is also known for devising a formula to express the relative distances of the planets in our solar system from the sun, which is known as Bode’s Law.
ITEM CONDITION: View images carefully. Age spotting to margins. Folds as issued.
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