Bayer Celestial Engraving, Pegasus
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BAYER, Johann (1572-1625).
Pegasus.
Engraving with original hand color.
Augsburg, 1603 From Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata...
12 11/16" x 15 13/16" sheet, 11 1/8" x 15 1/8" plate.
Bayer's was the first accurate star atlas. A lawyer and amateur astronomer, he was the first to signify the location of 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 of stars with the naked eye, just five or six years before the invention of the telescope. Bayer's stellar nomenclature is still in use today.
Honeyman 246; Norman 142; Deborah Warner, The Sky Explored: Celestial Cartography 1500-1800, pp 18-19; Zimmer 3951.
Pegasus.
Engraving with original hand color.
Augsburg, 1603 From Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata...
12 11/16" x 15 13/16" sheet, 11 1/8" x 15 1/8" plate.
Bayer's was the first accurate star atlas. A lawyer and amateur astronomer, he was the first to signify the location of 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 of stars with the naked eye, just five or six years before the invention of the telescope. Bayer's stellar nomenclature is still in use today.
Honeyman 246; Norman 142; Deborah Warner, The Sky Explored: Celestial Cartography 1500-1800, pp 18-19; Zimmer 3951.
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