Bayer, Johann. Synopsis Coeli Superioris. Augsburg, 1603. KOP Furniture Consilium (Counsel)

Consilium (Counsel)

almost certainly drawn by Elias Wightman

Papered horizon slightly bubbled

“this magnificent map sums up the general European view of the western hemisphere in the early seventeenth century

32 1/2" x 22"

Bayer, Johann. Synopsis Coeli Superioris. Augsburg, 1603. KOP Furniture Consilium (Counsel)Johann Bayer Synopsis Coeli Superioris From "Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata" Augsburg, 1603 13 5 8" 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