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German astronomer Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826) is best known today for Bode's Law and naming the newly discovered planet Uranus. But he also was director of the Berlin Observatory for many years and published the celebrated celestial atlas Uranographia in 1801. He also proposed several new constellations, none of which are now recognised. Officina Typographica, which celebrates the much earlier invention of the printing press, is comprised mostly of stars in Puppis. It went out of print before the twentieth century.