Bayer, Johann. Cepheus. Augsburg, 1603. Cartographer_Claude Joseph Sauthier Representatives from Matagorda attended meetings

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

19 ½” x 26 ½” sheet

His watercolors

Rightly considered one of the foremost maps in American history

on the map includes celestial circles and two large banners

Bayer, Johann. Cepheus. Augsburg, 1603. Cartographer_Claude Joseph Sauthier Representatives from Matagorda attended meetingsJohann 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