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- Creator
- Bode, Johann Elert, 1747-1826
- Call number
- MssCol 326
- Physical description
- .5 linear feet (3 v.)
- Language
- Notes in German
- Preferred Citation
- Johann Elert Bode papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826) was a German astronomer. Collection consists of astronomical notes and observations, chiefly made in Berlin. Includes a treatise on astronomical clocks; notes to Euler's Theoria Motuum Planetarum et Cometarum, to Lalande's Astronomie, and to Bohnenberger's Geographicshe Ortsbestimmung; and observations of comets.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, 1899Key terms
Names
- Bode, Johann Elert, 1747-1826
- Bohnenberger, J. G. F. (Johann Gottlieb Friedrich), 1765-1831
- Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783
- Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de, 1732-1807
Subjects
- Astronomical clocks
- Astronomy -- Germany -- Berlin
- Astronomy -- Observations
- Astronomy -- Study and teaching
- Comets
- Planets -- Orbits
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328