Dorado was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. However, when it was first depicted in a celestial atlas – Johann Bayer’s Uranometria of 1603 – it was renamed Xiphias, the swordfish. The name Dorado ultimately become dominant.