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Johann Bayer

1572-1625

German lawyer, uranographer, mathematician and astronomer. He is most famous for his star atlas Uranometria : omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, aereis laminis expressa. This translates to "Uranometria, containing charts of all the constellations, drawn by a new method and engraved on copper plates". Augsburg, 1603.

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