Johannes Deur (1667 - 1734)

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

~1667
1734

Biography:
Instrument maker from Amsterdam. He made land- and seamaps and terrestrial globes. On June 25, 1771 he got privileges of the States of West-Holland and Friesland to make pocket globes.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden; Museum of Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland).

Occupations:
instrument maker: 1700 - 1725 (Amsterdam)

Sources:
Morpurgo, E. Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970), 33.

Krogt, P. van der. 'Globes made portable fot the pocket', in: Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 7 (1985), 11.

Krogt, P. van der. Old globes in the Netherlands (Utrecht 1984), 106.

Doorman, G. Octrooien voor uitvindingen ('s-Gravenhage 1940), 259.

Krogt, P. van der. Globi Neerlandici (Utrecht 1989).