Twelve were observed by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman in the end of sixteenth century and depicted by Johann Bayer in his star atlas Uranometria of 1603.
Johann Bayer copied the southern constellations from a Plancius/Hondius globe in his 1603 Uranometria star atlas, crediting charting to a "Petrus Theodori", but not acknowledging their earlier publication, and is therefore often mistakenly credited for introducing them.
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They were published on Plancius' celestial globe of late 1597, which was published by Jodocus Hondius.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Pieter Brueghel | Keyser, West Virginia | Pieter Mulier II | Pieter Hintjens | Nicaise de Keyser | Pieter Wispelwey | Pieter Willem Korthals | Pieter Vreede | Pieter van Vollenhoven | Pieter van Musschenbroek | Pieter Vanderlyn | Pieter Teyler van der Hulst | Pieter Snapper | Pieter Rossouw | Pieter Langendijk | Pieter Kasteleyn | Pieter Hugo | Pieter Feith | Pieter de Ring | Pieter de Hooch | Pieter Bourke | Pieter Bleeker | Pieter Aertsen | Pieter Zeeman | Pieter van der Hulst | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Pieter Seelaar | Pieter Rijke | Pieter Paulus |