Editing Johann Elert Bode (section)

==Selected writings==
[[Image:Orion from Uranographia by Johann Elert Bode.jpg|right|thumb|Section of a plate from ''Uranographia'' showing the constellation Orion]]
[[File:Bode, Johann Ehlert – Allgemeine Betrachtungen über das Weltgebäude, 1808 – BEIC 766161.jpg|thumb|upright|''Allgemeine Betrachtungen über das Weltgebäude'', 1808]]

* 1768 (10th ed. 1844) ''Anleitung zur Kentniss des Gestirnten Himmels'' (The most famous of Bode's writings. In this work, he first announced [[Titius–Bode law|Bode's law]].)
* 1774–1957 ''Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch für 1776–1959'' (The [[almanac|astronomical yearbook]] published by [[Berlin Observatory]].)
* 1776 ''Sammlung astronomischer Tafeln'' (3 vols.)
* 1776 (3rd ed. 1808) ''Erläuterung der Sternkunde'', an introductory book on the constellations and their tales, which was reprinted more than ten times
* 1782 ''Vorstellung der Gestirne ... des Flamsteadschen Himmelsatlas'' (Bode's revised and enlarged edition of [[Jean Fortin|Fortin]]'s small star atlas of [[John Flamsteed|Flamsteed]].)
:: ''Verzeichniss'' (Containing the above star atlas, and including 5,058 stars observed by Flamsteed, [[Johannes Hevelius|Hevelius]], [[Tobias Mayer|T. Mayer]], [[Nicolas Louis de Lacaille|de la Caille]], [[Charles Messier|Messier]], [[Pierre Charles Le Monnier|le Monnier]], [[Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix|Darquier]] and Bode himself.)
* 1801 ''Uranographia sive Astrorum Descriptio'' (A large star atlas illustrated with twenty copper plates.)
::''Allgemeine Beschreibung und Nachweisung der Gestirne'' (A star catalogue listing 17,240 stars.)
* {{Cite book|title=Allgemeine Betrachtungen über das Weltgebäude|volume=|publisher=Himburg|location=Berlin|year=1808|language=de|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=766161}}

His works were highly effective in diffusing throughout Germany a taste for astronomy.<ref name=eb/><gallery>
File:Bode-1.jpg|alt=|1772 copy of ''Anleitung zur Kenntniss des gestirnten Himmels''
File:Bode-2.jpg|alt=|Front page illustration from 1772 copy of ''Anleitung zur kenntniss''
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