Bayer, Johann. Cepheus. Augsburg, 1603. Cartographer_Claude Joseph Sauthier 19 ½” x 26 ½”

19 ½” x 26 ½” sheet

including the "Les Indes Orientales

Representatives from Matagorda attended meetings and conventions leading up to the Texas Revolution

California as an island remained common on maps until the mid-eighteenth century

Nicolaes Visscher (1618–1679) was a distinguished Dutch cartographer and engraver

Bayer, Johann. Cepheus. Augsburg, 1603. Cartographer_Claude Joseph Sauthier 19 ½” x 26 ½”Johann 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