Uranometria: omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata aereis laminis expressa
Johann Bayer. . Augsburg: Christophorus Mangus, 1603.
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The first atlas to cover the whole sky systematically, and the origin of the Bayer designations, the Greek-letter star names this site's own catalogue still carries (see public/sky/stars.json's `bayer` array). 51 engraved plates, one per constellation plus two planispheres, engraved by Alexander Mair (1559-1617); the imprint names Christophorus Mangus, though the copy digitised here records the actual print shop as Sara Mang's Augsburg press. VD17 39:125032X (the German union catalogue of seventeenth-century imprints). Three plates (Orion, Ursa Major, Taurus) were aligned to modern star positions for the sky overlay in scripts/build-atlas.ts; see eth-bibliothek-uranometria-scan.yaml for the scan this project used, which is a separate licensing question from the 1603 work itself being long out of copyright.
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- The first whole-sky atlas on a uniform plan, and the origin of the Greek letter designations still in use.