Petrus Plancius, working from From Keyser and de Houtman's observations, creates twelve new constellations of the southern sky naming the majority after various beings that sixteenth century explorers had encountered (e.g. Bird of Paradise, Chameleon, Toucan, Flying Fish).

Published by Jodocus Hondius on Plancius' celestial globe of late 1597, these are today accepted as modern constellations.

Willem Janszoon Blaeu will copy these constellations on a 1602 globe and create a new globe in 1603 based on Frederick de Houtman's observations during a second voyage to the East Indies.

Johann Bayer will copy 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.