For a representative cross-section of such a view, see PannekoekA., A history of astronomy (London, 1961), 352; ZinnerE., Astronomie: Geschichte ihrer Probleme (Munich, 1951), 214–216; ShapleyH. and HowarthH. E. (eds), A source book in astronomy (New York, 1929), 180–181; ClerkeA., A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century (3d ed., London, 1893), 87; HerschelJ. F. W., Outlines of astronomy (11th ed., London1871), 334; and AragoF., Astronomie populaire (Paris, 1857), iv, 142–143.
2.
For instance WhippleF. L. and KuiperG. P. in their article “Planet” in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1964), xvii, 1000, and WolfR., Handbuch der Astronomie, ihrer Geschichte und Litteratur (Zurich, 1892), ii, 455.
3.
xv, 169–193. Its author was Dr [J. F.] Benzenberg. For quotation, see p. 170.
4.
The five editions appeared in 1724, 1726, 1732, 1741 and 1752. The editions of 1741 and 1752 are wholly identical with that of 1726, printed in Frankfurt and Leipzig. For quotation, see p. 140 of that edition.
5.
(Halle, 1710), 393.
6.
See the 2d edition (Paris, 1771), ii, 18.
7.
Ibid., 17.
8.
Amsterdam, 2 vols.
9.
Ibid., i, 7.
10.
Betrachtung über die NaturBonnetKarl vom Herrn (Johann Friedrich Junius, Leipzig, 1766). For quotation, see pp. 7–8. The translator, Titius, was identified only at the end of the dedicatory epistle, which gave no hint of additions to the original.
11.
(Hamburg, 1772), 461–462. Bode claimed that his source was the second edition of Titius's translation, but it is more likely that he used the first, as a copy of the second edition of his Anleitung reached Lambert in Berlin in January 1772.
12.
BodeJ. E., Anleitung zur Kenntniss des gestirnten Himmels (4th ed., Berlin, 1778), 635.
13.
Von dem neu entdeckten Planeten (Berlin, 1784), 51, The figure for Uranus was 4 + 192 = 196.
