THE MOST INFLUENTIAL STAR ATLAS OF ITS TIME
BAYER, Johann Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, series laminis expressa. Augsburg Christophorus Magnus 1603
A spectacular copy of the rare first edition of the most influential star atlas published in the first half of the seventeenth century, the first to represent the stars of the southern latitudes. It is also the first star atlas based on observations which can be traced to an actual voyage of discovery-that of Houtman’s first voyage to the East Indies in 1595-97.
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