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Johann Daniel Titius
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Titius, Johann Daniel 

(real surname Tietz). Born Jan. 2, 1729, in Konitz, East Prussia; died Dec. 16,1796, in Wittenberg. German physicist and mathematician.

Titius was on the staff of the University of Leipzig from 1752 to 1756 and joined the staff of the University of Wittenberg in 1756. In 1766 he established an empirical rule by which the distances of the planets from the sun may be found.

REFERENCE

Clerke, A. Obshchedostupnaia istoriia astronomii v XIX stoletti. Odessa, 1913. (Translated from English.)


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One of the famous empirical facts about this configuration is the Titius-Bode law, observed by Johann Titius in 1766 and published by Johann Elert Bode in 1772.
 
 
 
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