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More scholarship may finally ascertain the author and precise date of this map
Nicolaes Visscher (1618–1679) was a distinguished Dutch cartographer and engraver
including the "Les Indes Orientales
Rightly considered one of the foremost maps in American history
on the map includes celestial circles and two large banners
Bayer, Johann. Cepheus. Augsburg, 1603. Cartographer_Claude Joseph Sauthier More scholarship may finally ascertainJohann Bayer Cepheus From "Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata" Augsburg, 1603 15 1 2" x 12 3 4" 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 identification
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