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Last Name Mair
Given Name Alexander
alt. Names A. M. ; A. Mayr ;
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Year born 1559 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
Year died 1620
Place of death Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Country of Activity Germany
Worked for astronomical engraver of stellar maps, sunspots & lunar surface in works by Christoph Scheiner S. J. ; Marcus Welser & Johann Bayer: Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata aereis laminis expressa (1603) ; Johann Melchior Bocksperger called Hans Bocksperger the Younger (1523/35-1587) ;
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Techniques astronomical copperplate engraving, woodcut, and map-making ;
Sample(s) www.ingolstadt.de/stadtmuseum/scheuerer/ausstell/bilder/cs-04.gif ; http://www.mercateo.com/p/520-RF098039%282d%29501/Kunstreproduktion_Johann_Bayer_C
Archival sources http://personen.digitale-sammlungen.de/pnd/bsb00000273_00692-00.html?pos=1&suche=pndid:129125849%20AND%20%28bsbID:bsb00000273%20OR%20bsbID:bsb00000274
Published sources AKL ; ThB 24 1930: 461 ; ADB 20 1884: 112-113 ; Horst Bredekamp: Galilei. Der Künstler (Berlin 2007: 220ff.) ; www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz55791.html ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 429 ; Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner: On Sunspots, Chicago 2010; Eileen Reeves & Albert van Helden: Idiom and Image: Translating the Letters on Sunspots, Isis 109,4 (2018): 767-773; Escardó 2022: 72;
other Further samples: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3287/2962003364_2657e1ac0c_o.jpg and http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/3005503753_e35dcd7712_o.jpg .
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