Hendrik Doncker (1626 - 1699)

Field(s) of interest: Navigating instruments | cartography
Gender: male

Born: Amsterdam, 1626
Died: Amsterdam, 1699

Biography:
Hendrik Donker was admitted to the booksellers guild in Amsterdam, in 1647; he established his business as bookseller and cross-staff-maker 'In 't Stuurmans gereetschap' in the Nieuwe Brugsteeg, in 1648. He edited and sold sea-atlases and navigational manuals. Doncker sold his house to Johannes van Keulen (1), in 1693, who probably let it to him. His business was continued by his son Hendrik Doncker. A cross-staff by him is preserved, it is dated 1698.

Collection: Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam.

Occupations:
publisher (atlases and nautical works): ~1647 - ~1693 (Amsterdam)

Sources:
Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. The cross-staff: history and development of a navigational instrument. (Amsterdam 1994), 90.

Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden. (Leiden 1950).

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Bulletin of Scientific Instrument Society 28 (1991), 24 (under: 'Letters to the Editor').