Isaac Habrecht II

Isaac Habrecht II (1589-1633) was a professor of astronomy and mathematics in Strasbourg. He was also a doctor of medicine and philosophy.

Uranography

Isaac Habrecht II made a celestial globe[1] and a couple of celestial planispheres.[2] He introduced some constellations that created by a Dutch cartographer Plancius. And he invented now obsolete constellation Rhombus. It followed by a French cartographer Royer. Later, it tuned into le Reticule Romboide (now Reticulum) by a French astronomer de Lacaille.

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Notes

  1. Habrecht II, I., "Globus Coelestis, Omnes Stellas Fixas a Nobilis Tychone Brahe, alysq. . .", 1621.
  2. Habrecht II, I., Planiglobium Coeleste, et Terrestre. Sive, Globus Coelestis. . ., 1628.

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