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 and a couple of celestial planispheres. 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.

Families

• Isaac Habrecht I: his father, a horologist.
• Isaac Habrecht III: his nephew, a clockmaker.