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    Johann Bayer (1572 – 7 March 1625) was a German lawyer and uranographer (celestial cartographer). He was born in Rain, Lower Bavaria, in 1572. At twenty...
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    ISBN 978-0-08-055796-0. Bayer, Johann (1987). Uranometria. Archival Facsimiles. ISBN 1852970219. Ridpath, Ian (1989). "Bayer's Uranometria and Bayer letters". Star...
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    Friedrich Bayer (born Friedrich Beyer, 6 June 1825 in Barmen now Wuppertal – 6 May 1880 in Würzburg) was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German...
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    STOXX 50 stock market index. Bayer was founded in 1863 in Barmen as a partnership between dye salesman Friedrich Bayer (1825–1880) and dyer Friedrich...
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    from his press. Star Tales – Johann Bayer's southern star chart Star Tales – Bayer letters Linda Hall Library. Bayer, Johann, Explicatio...Uranometrias...
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    by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria. The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted the brighter stars and gave their Bayer designations...
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  • Hipparchus in the 2nd century BC enumerated about 850 naked-eye stars. Johann Bayer in 1603 listed about twice this number. Only in the 19th century did...
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    The celestial cartographers Johann Bayer and John Flamsteed catalogued the constellation's stars, giving six of them Bayer designations. The white stars...
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    Thuban (category Bayer objects)
    as having been the north pole star from the 4th to 2nd millennium BC. Johann Bayer gave Thuban the designation Alpha and placed it as the only member of...
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    by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria. The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted and gave the brighter stars their Bayer designations...
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