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Bode.
Bode.
Lythog. v. Fricke.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 200 x 170mm (8 x 6¾"). Trimmed into image, few small repaired holes on left.
Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826), German astronomer and director of the Berlin Observatory, who named Uranus after it was determined to be a planet in 1783. His star atlas of 1801, which he named the 'Uranographia' was the largest up to that time, containing the positions of more than 17,000 stars, and was one of the last scientific astronomic atlases to depict the tranditional figures for constellations. Shows globe in background. Lithographed by Friedrich August Fricke.
Wellcome 338.
[Ref: 29723]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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