Bayer, Johann. Cepheus. Augsburg, 1603. Cartographer_Claude Joseph Sauthier investors dropped out

investors dropped out

on the map includes celestial circles and two large banners

including the "Les Indes Orientales

He produced numerous atlases

Bayer, Johann. Cepheus. Augsburg, 1603. Cartographer_Claude Joseph Sauthier investors dropped outJohann Bayer Cepheus From "Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata" Augsburg, 1603 15 1 2" x 12 3 4" Bayer was the first accurate star atlas. A lawyer and amateur astronomer, he was the first to signify the location of the stars within a given constellation by the use of Greek letters (with the addition of the Latin alphabet for constellations with more than 24 stars). This strikingly simple innovation greatly improved the identification