Bayer, Johann. Lepus, 1603 United States reissued by Delamarche

reissued by Delamarche

and in this and other ways is clearly derived from Waldseemuller’s 1507 world map

14 1/2" x 22 1/2"

though he listed as his earliest picture a now-lost Battle of Trafalgar

Southeast Asia also makes one of its first appearances in a Japanese Buddhist map as an island cluster to the east of India

Bayer, Johann. Lepus, 1603 United States reissued by DelamarcheJohann 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