Bayer, Johann. Lepus, 1603 United States There he started what proved

There he started what proved to be a long run of unsuccessful schemes

now in the Boston Public Library

14 1/2" x 22 1/2"

written by Augustus Thorndike Perkins

the primary architect of this and the other maps made on the voyage

Bayer, Johann. Lepus, 1603 United States There he started what provedJohann Bayer Lepus From "Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata" Augsburg, 1603 approx.: 13 1 2" x 17" 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