Bayer, Johann. Cepheus. Augsburg, 1603. Cartographer_Claude Joseph Sauthier More scholarship may finally ascertain

More scholarship may finally ascertain the author and precise date of this map

One of the earliest obtainable large format plans of the City of Washington

California as an island remained common on maps until the mid-eighteenth century

His watercolors

Bayer, Johann. Cepheus. Augsburg, 1603. Cartographer_Claude Joseph Sauthier More scholarship may finally ascertainJohann 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