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Titius-Bode Law
A prescription for calculating planetary distances, made famous by Johann Bode but first pointed out in 1766 by the German mathematician Johann Titius (1729-1796). It is that the distance to the nth planet is 0.4 + (0.3)n AU. The Titius-Bode Law, also known simple as Bode's Law works surprisingly well out to Uranus but then breaks down.
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