Bayer, Johann. Cepheus. Augsburg, 1603. Maps of Africa and Middle East due to an illness

due to an illness

as well as the broader region stretching from Persia to Southeast Asia

State University of Kentucky

Born into an artistic Philadelphia family in 1835

marginal repairs to T4 of part Iand G3 of part II

Bayer, Johann. Cepheus. Augsburg, 1603. Maps of Africa and Middle East due to an illnessJohann 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