Bayer, Johann. Lepus, 1603 United States written by Augustus Thorndike Perkins

written by Augustus Thorndike Perkins

now in the Boston Public Library

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

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

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

Bayer, Johann. Lepus, 1603 United States written by Augustus Thorndike PerkinsJohann 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