Bayer, Johann. Aquila, 1603 Mammals Amsterdam: 1660

Amsterdam: 1660

17 1/2 x 22 inches

a series of large

and to the Delaware River Valley in Northwestern New Jersey during the Summer and Fall of 1860

Numbered ‘48’

Bayer, Johann. Aquila, 1603 Mammals Amsterdam: 1660Johann Bayer Aquila 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