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Letters Between Olbers and Bode

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Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres
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Presents the extensive translated correspondence between German astronomers Olbers and Bode concerning Cere, as well as letters from Bode to Oriani, Ende, and Seyffer to Olbers, plus Olbers to Mayer.

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Cunningham, C. (2016). Letters Between Olbers and Bode. In: Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21777-2_13

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