2123 - Bode,J.E.

Bode,J.E. Celestial globe on which the stars are recorded according to the most complete observations for the year 1800 by I.E. Bode, astronomer and member of the Royal Prussian Acad. of Science. Acad. d. Wissenschaft and enlarged and improved by him in 1804. (Nuremberg, Johann Georg Franz 1804 ?). Shaped. Celestial globe (diameter 31 cm), plaster sphere with 12 paper segments, full circle brass median ring. Wooden frame with 4 feet. Allmayer-Beck. Models of the world. Earth and celestial globes, pp. 248 and 326 (on Bode) and p. 162 (with illustration of the globe) ; Hockey (ed.). Biographisches Astronomen-Lexikon, I, pp. 140-141 and DSB, II, pp. 220-221 (for Bode). - Evenly slightly browned and dusty, some minor rubbing, wooden ring with 2 stress cracks and chipping at the edge, small cracks in the plaster base. - Celestial globe based on star charts by the astronomer Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826), director of the Berlin Observatory and member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. The celestial globe is mounted in a four-legged frame with curved feet. A wooden central column rises at the intersection point, supporting the brass ring with graduations, which is additionally held by the horizontal wooden ring of the frame. The globe rotates in the brass ring around a vertical axis, it shows the constellations and fixed stars of the northern and southern hemisphere. The stars are shown as individual points according to their magnitudes (six categories), the constellations are included as graphic representations and labeled with names. "A major accomplishment was the measurement of several thousand uncataloged star positions plotted for his monumental sky atlas, Uranographia (1801). This atlas was the last to follow the tradition of depicting beautifully engraved constellation figures. At the same time, it was the first to include the vast number of double stars, clusters, and nebulae cataloged by William Herschel" (Wolfgang Kokott. In: Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. I, p. 141). The globe, evenly lightly browned and dusty, and with a few tiny abrasions, the wooden ring with two stress cracks and chipping at edges. On the lower side of the globe small cracks in the plaster base. R