Henricus Sneewins ( - )

Field(s) of interest: Scientific instruments
Gender: male




Biography:
Mathematical and astronomical instrument maker at the Rapenburg in Leiden, from 1643-1660. He married in Leiden on 17-06-1645 Johanna van Neck from The Hague. In 1658 Sneewins improved the pedestal of Snellius' quadrant at the Leiden Observatory. He was the brother of Anthoni Sneewins (Delft) and Johannes Sneewins (Utrecht).

Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden (Ring dial and Holland circles); Conservatoire de Arts et Metiers, Paris; Planetarium Zuylenburgh, Oud Zuilen (Holland circle); Museum of the History of Science,Oxford; Skokloster Castle, Sweden; Rundetarn, Copenhagen.


Occupations:
Instrument maker: 1643 - 1660 (Leiden)

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

Gunther, R.W.T. The astrolabes of the world : based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans collection in the old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford : with notes on astrolables in the collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir J. Findlay, Mr. S.V. Hoffman, the Mensing collection, and in other public and private collections (London 1976).

Morpurgo, E. Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970).

Rohde, A. Die Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Instrumente von Beginn der Renaissance bis zum Ausgang des 18. Jahrhunderts (Leipzig 1923).

Kaiser, F. Geschichte und Beschreibung der Sternwarte in Leiden (Haarlem 1868).

Losman, A. en I. Sigurdsson. Äldre vetenskapliga Instrument på Skokloster : Scientific Instruments of the 16th-18th centuries at Skokloster Castle (Uppsala 1975).

Verle, D. ' Goniometre de H. Sneewins', in: Janus : archives internationales pour l'histoire de la médecine et pour la géographie médicale 50 (1961).

Gunther, R.W.T. Early science in Oxford, vol. 2 (Oxford 1923).

Goldman, N. Tractatus de usu proportionatorii s. Circini proportionalis : Cum tabb. constructionum cet, (Latine et Germanicae) (Leiden 1656).

Zinner, E. Deutsche und Niederländische astronomische Instrumente des 11.-18. Jahrhunderts (München 1956).

mentioned in Bonboeken Leiden (~1642

Anderson, Hemming, Historic Scientific Instruments in Denmark. Copenhagen, 1995.