Bayer, Johann. Lepus, 1603 United States 14 1/2" x 22 1/2"

14 1/2" x 22 1/2"

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

John (1721–1792) and the middle brother

the primary architect of this and the other maps made on the voyage

There he started what proved to be a long run of unsuccessful schemes

Bayer, Johann. Lepus, 1603 United States 14 1/2" x 22 1/2"Johann 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