Petrus Plancius (Dutch: [ˈpeːtrʏs ˈplɑŋkiʏs]; 1552 – 15 May 1622) was a Dutch-Flemish astronomer, cartographer and clergyman. He was born as Pieter Platevoet...

Houtman in the late 16th century. It was first depicted on Petrus Plancius’ globe in 1598. Plancius called the constellation Vliegendenvis (flying fish). In...

equator. Its definition is attributed to the 17th-century cartographer Petrus Plancius. It is bordered by Orion to the west, Gemini to the north, Canis Major...

genitive ending -ūs. Dorado was one of twelve constellations named by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman...

appeared on celestial globes developed in the late 16th century by Petrus Plancius, based mainly on observations of the Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon...

16th century. Chamaeleon was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman...

which he applied to the South American continent only. The 1594 map by Petrus Plancius labels the two landmasses "America Mexicana" and "America Peruana"...

representing a giraffe. The constellation was introduced in 1612 or 1613 by Petrus Plancius. Some older astronomy books give Camelopardalus or Camelopardus as...

Phoenicids. Phoenix was the largest of the 12 constellations established by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman...

Victor Reinier as Jacob van Heemskerk Jan Decleir as Petrus Plancius Doutzen Kroes as Catharina Plancius Semmy Schilt as Claes The film was filmed on location...

professionally surveyed by Europeans in the 1590s and mapped on a globe by Petrus Plancius by early 1598. It was included on a plate illustrating southern constellations...

1187-1197 Petrus Abailardus, Latin name for Peter Abelard (1079–1142) Petrus de Abano (Pietro d'Abano; 1257–1315), Italian philosopher and doctor Petrus Alphonsi...

of twelve constellations conceived in the late sixteenth century by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman...

Amsterdam by Petrus Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and was depicted in Johann Bayer's star atlas Uranometria of 1603, and was likely conceived by Plancius from...

the deep southern sky. It was one of 12 constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman...

It was originally called Apes (plural of Apis, Latin for bee) by Petrus Plancius when he created it in 1612. It was made up of a small group of stars...

The constellations Camelopardalis, Columba, and Monoceros, formed by Petrus Plancius in 1592 and in 1613, are often erroneously attributed to Jacob Bartsch...

crane, a type of bird. It is one of twelve constellations conceived by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman...

A 1595 map of Sri Lanka created by Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius...

adjacent to Cancer. The constellation was introduced in 1612 (or 1613) by Petrus Plancius. The 5th-magnitude stars constituting Cancer Minor were HIP 36616,...

wrongly believed to lack feet. First depicted on a celestial globe by Petrus Plancius in 1598, it was charted on a star atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603...

seen in an external orientation, as on a globe. Emery Molyneux and Petrus Plancius have also been cited as the first uranographers (sky mappers) to distinguish...

de Houtman. He had been trained by cartographer Petrus Plancius in mathematics and astronomy. Plancius, a key promoter to the Dutch East Indies expeditions...

Grus once formed the "tail" of Piscis Austrinus. In 1597 (or 1598), Petrus Plancius carved out a separate constellation and named it after the crane. It...

deep southern sky. It was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman...

was first depicted on a celestial globe as Triangulus Antarcticus by Petrus Plancius in 1589, and later with more accuracy and its current name by Johann...

A sea monster depicted in mid-Atlantic in Petrus Plancius' 1592 map of New France....

East Indies. These charts were provided by noted Dutch cartographer, Petrus Plancius, who indicated he had obtained them from Spain's royal cosmographer...

(the cockerel) was a constellation introduced in 1612 (or 1613) by Petrus Plancius. It was in the northern part of what is now Puppis. It was not adopted...

constellation that lay where Tucana and Grus now are. It was introduced by Petrus Plancius in the small celestial planispheres on his large wall map of 1592....