Jacob Theunis Lootsman (1620 - 1679)

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

~1620
Died: Amsterdam, 1679

Biography:
Jacob Lootsman was a cross-staff and chart maker, book seller, and publisher of sea-atlases 'In de Lootsman' in Amsterdam, from 1666-1676.

Collection: No cross-staffs by him are on record.

Occupations:
Publisher: ~1666 - 1679 (Amsterdam)

Cross-staff maker: ~1666 - ~1676 (Amsterdam)

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