age ~83
from Jensen Beach, FL
Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540? September 1596), a.k.a. Petrus Theodori, was a Dutch navigator (originally from Emden) who mapped the southern sky. ...
1596
which left Texel with four ships on April 2, 1595 under Cornelis de Houtman.
He was aided in this by Frederick de Houtman and Vechter Willemsz....
Cartographer
Johann Bayer copied the southern constellations from a Plancius Hondius globe in his 1603 Uranometria star atlas, crediting charting to a " Petrus Theodori ",.