This led astronomers at the time bode published the law, something more than a century ago, to give new heed to a suggestion made long before by Kepler, that there might be an unknown planet moving between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and a number of them agreed to search for such a planet, each in a part of the sky assigned him for that purpose.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
Will ye hae my bode?
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
Why does the auctioneer take his bode?
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton