Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid
I like a drink as much as the next man. Unless the next man is Mel Gibson.
Author:Ricky GervaisJohann Elert BodeDied 23 Nov 1826 at age 79 (born 19 Jan 1747).German astronomer best known for his popularization of Bode's law. In 1766, his compatriot Johann Titius had discovered a curious mathematical relationship in the distances of the planets from the sun. If 4 is added to each number in the series 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,... and the answers divided by 10, the resulting sequence gives the distances of the planets in astronomical units (earth = 1). Also known as the Titius-Bode law, the idea fell into disrepute after the discovery of Neptune, which does not conform with the 'law' - nor does Pluto. Bode was director at the Berlin Observatory, where he published Uranographia (1801), one of the first successful attempts at mapping all stars visible to the naked eye without any artistic interpretation of the stellar constellation figures. |
