Gillis (Egidius) Coignet (1514 - 1562)

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

>1514
~1562

Biography:
Scientific instrument maker and goldsmith. Only one astrolabe made by Coignet is known, signed 'Aegidius Quinniet Anvers..facieb 1556'. He also made sundials and was probably acquainted with Gualtherus Arsenius.

Occupations:
instrument maker and goldsmith: 1543 - 1562 (Antwerpen)

Sources:
Ackerman, S., 'Familia Universalis Coignet', Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 59 (1998), 33.

Meskens, A., Familia universalis: Coignet: een familie tussen wetenschap en kunst (Antwerpen 1998).

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