BODE

Jomr Elkbt, an astronomer, bom at Hamburg, 1747. He gave the first public prpof of hii knowledge by a short work on the solar eclipse of August 5, 1766. The approbation which tiiis received enoonraged him to greater labours, and in 1768 appeared his Introduction to the Knowledge of the Stany Heavens (ninth edition, 1822). In 1772 the Berlin Academy chose him their astronomer, and ten years afterwards he was made a member of that institution. His best works are Ids Astronomical Almanac (oonmiencing 1774) — a work indispensable to every astronomer — and his large Celestial Atlas (Him mels atlas) in twenty sheets, in which the industrious editor has given a catalogue of 17,240 stars (12,000 more than in any former charts). In 1825 he was released, at his own wish, from his duties in the Academy of Science and the observatory in Berlin. His place was filled by Profe or Encke. He died in 1826. His empirical law as to the distance of the planets is well knowiL BODIN, JXAK, a political writer of the sixteenth century, was bom in 1530 or 1529 at Angers; studied law at Toulouse; delivered lectures on jurisprudence there, and afterwards went to Paris and practised. Being unsucce ful in his profe ion, he turned his talents to literary labours; was invited by Henry IIL to his. court; and afterwards travelled with the king's brother. Frauds, duke of Alen9on and Anjou, to Flanders and England, where he had the gratification of hearing lectures in Cambridge on his work De la R^nblique, originally written in French, bat afterwards translated by Bodin himself into Latin. He died, 1596, at Laon, of the plague. BODLEIAN LIBRAB.T. See Lib rabies.