Selected Writings
- 1768 (10th ed. 1844) Anleitung zur Kentniss des Gestirnten Himmels (The most famous of Bode's writings. In this work, he first announced Bode's law.)
- 1774-1957 Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch für 1776-1959 (The astronomical yearbook published by Berlin Observatory.)
- 1776 Sammlung astronomischer Tafeln (3 vols.)
- 1776 (3rd ed. 1808) Erläuterung der Sternkunde, an introductory book on the constellations and their tales, which was reprinted more than ten times
- 1782 Vorstellung der Gestirne ... des Flamsteadschen Himmelsatlas (Bode's revised and enlarged edition of Fortin's small star atlas of Flamsteed.)
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- Verzeichniss (Containing the above star atlas, and including 5,058 stars observed by Flamsteed, Hevelius, T. Mayer, de la Caille, Messier, le Monnier, Darquier and Bode himself.)
- 1801 Uranographia sive Astrorum Descriptio (A large star atlas illustrated with twenty copper plates.)
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- Allgemeine Beschreibung und Nachweisung der Gestirne (A star catalogue listing 17,240 stars.)
His works were highly effective in diffusing throughout Germany a taste for astronomy.
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