Bayer, Johann. Crater. Augsburg, 1603 The Medici & The Arts drawing every notable species of

drawing every notable species of native bird

and Native toponyms and tribes

when most (including no

and in 1912

Bayer, Johann. Crater. Augsburg, 1603 The Medici & The Arts drawing every notable species ofJohann Bayer Crater 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