Bode, Johann Elert, an astronomer, born at Hamburg; was professor of Astronomy and director of Observatory at Berlin; produced a number of astronomical works, one of his best, “An Introduction to the Knowledge of the Starry Heavens;” gave name to the law of the planetary distances, called Bode's Law, although it was observed by Kepler long before his day (1747‒1826).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bochart, Samuel * Bodel