Jacobus Robyn (1649 - 1707)

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

Born: Amsterdam, ~1649
>1707

Biography:
Jacobus Robyn was a cross-staff maker, chart and book seller in 'De Stuurman', in the Nieuwe Brugsteeg in Amsterdam; he was admitted tot the book sellers guild in 1674. In 1679 Robyn was briefly associated with Johannes van Keulen (1). According to an advertisement in his Zee-Spiegel of 1688, Robyn made and sold cross-staffs.

Collection: No cross-staff by him is on record.

Occupations:
Cross-staff maker and publisher: ~1675 (Amsterdam)

Sources:
publisher of: Anhalt, C.M. 't Nieuwe gepractiseerde artelery-boekje. (Amsterdam ca. 1700).

publisher of: Vooght, C.J. Astrolabium catholicum, ofte een grondige onderwijsing, aangaande d'oorspronk, 't maakzel en 't veelvuldigh gebruyk des algemeenen starrethoneels. (Amsterdam 1680).

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