Isaac Habrecht II (1589–1633) was a professor of astronomy and mathematics in Strasbourg, the son of a prominent clockmaker in that city. In addition to his work as a doctor of medicine (he was court physician to the counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg) he was also a geographer, and a globe and instrument maker. He produced a number of globes, as early as 1621, and produced a treatise on the production of globes (Tractatum de planiglobio coelesti et terrestri) which would be translated and reprinted in 1666, well after his death of plague in 1633. He is credited with the discovery of the now-obsolete constellation Rhombus.



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