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His watercolors
He produced numerous atlases
More scholarship may finally ascertain the author and precise date of this map
California as an island remained common on maps until the mid-eighteenth century
19 ½” x 26 ½” sheet
Bayer, Johann. Cepheus. Augsburg, 1603. Cartographer_Claude Joseph Sauthier His watercolorsJohann 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