Bayer, Johann. Cancer, 1603 SouthAmerica Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

Paper size: 23 3/4" x 38"

who subsequently sold it at Sotheby's in June2000

van Os created exceptionally rich finished watercolors

Bayer, Johann. Cancer, 1603 SouthAmerica Nathaniel PhilbrickJohann Bayer Cancer 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