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• engineering
• optics

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In 1671 Cézar Caze had done experiments in Amsterdam with a machine reducing the speed of a ship. A few year later he was involved in the designs of clocks and in 1688 Caze published a tract on balances (De l'usage des stateres, ou romaines balances, Amsterdam 1688). Around that time Caze served five years in a Leeuwarden prison, as a result of bad financial affairs with France. In 1696 Caze invented a calculating machine on which topic he corresponded in the years 1704-1708 with Gotfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz. He obtained a patent for this machine (and on a dissertation on 'the use and improvement of arithmetic') in 1711. Cf. Family archive 'De Carpentier-Van Hylckama', no. 175: documents concerning Caze's experiments with a machine reducing the speed of a ship, 1671, Kurt Müller, 'Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz und Nicolaas Witsen', Sitzungsberichte der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Klasse fur Philosophie, Geschichte, etc. (1955:1), Hans J. Zacher, Die Hauptschriften zur Dyadik von G.W. Leibniz. Ein Beitrag zur Geschicte des binaren Zahlensystems, Frankfurt 1973, p. 143, Gerard Doorman, Octrooien voor uitvindingen in de Nederlanden uit de 16e-18e eeuw, 's-Gravenhage. 1940, p. 92.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1650~

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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• scientific instruments
• optics

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Optical instrument maker.

Residence

• Herbaijum 

Occupation

• Instrument maker 1821~ - 1900, Herbaijum

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Provenance

• Zuidervaart, H.J. Speculatie, wetenschap en vernuft : fysica en astronomie volgens Wytze Foppes Dongjuma (1707-1778), instrumentmaker te Leeuwarden (Leeuwarden 1995).

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Arnhem was a lens-grinder in seventeenth century Amsterdam, working for Constantijn Huygens Sr and Descartes. He is mentioned as lens-grinder in Christiaan Huygens, Oeuvres Completes, 1653, XVII.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1635 - 1640

Occupation

• optical instrument maker 1630 - 1640, Amsterdam

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Provenance

• Zuidervaart, Huib, ‘The ‘invisible technician’ made visible. Telescope making in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Dutch Republic’ in: Alison D. Morrison-Low [et al] (eds.), From Earth-Bound to Satellite. Telescopes, Skills and Networks (Leiden/Boston: Brill 2012), 41-102, esp. 89.

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Brass caster and optical engineer from Amsterdam. Around 1745 he assisted the Amsterdam merchant Jacobus van de Wall in the construction of a very large reflecting telescope. Years later, in 1762, Bley invented a Dutch version of the achromatic telescope, which design was published in the Verhandelingen van de Hollansche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen. A prototype was made by the Amsterdam instrument maker Jan van Deijl, who continued to produce such telescopes for many years.

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Occupation

• Brass caster 1740~ - 1771, Amsterdam

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Provenance

• Zuidervaart, H.J. 'Reflecting 'Popular Culture' : The Introduction, Diffusion, and Construction of the Reflecting Telescope in the Netherlands', Annals of Science 61, afl. 4 (2004), 407-452.
• Bley, C.U., ‘Verhandeling over de hoeveelheid der refractie en kleuren van het licht door glas gaande. Alsmeede op wat wyze de kleuren door lensvormige glaazen voortgebragt, kunnen weggenoomen worden’, Verhandelingen uitgegeven door de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen 8 (1765), 417– 63 (1 plate).
• Zuidervaart, H.J., ''Zo'n mooie machine, waarvan de kwaliteit door alle astronomen wordt erkend' : een biografie van een vrijwel niet gebruikte telescoop', Gewina 26 (2003).

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• optics

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Merchant with optical expertise. A model of an eye constructed by Feyt served in 1746 as a reference in the first published Dutch study on the optics of the eye. According to tradition he tested the first Van der Bildt telescope.

Residence

• Warmond 1770
• Amsterdam 1745

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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• scientific instruments
• optics

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Optician who worked for Ghent University. Made optical, physical and mathematical instruments, including a barometer.

Residence

• Gent 1820

Occupation

• instrument maker 1820~, Gent

Education

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Provenance

• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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• physics
• mathematics
• optics
• astronomy

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Born in 1629, Huygens was the son of the poet and diplomat, Constantijn Huygens. He studied law in Leiden and Breda. He was interested mainly in mathematics and proved to be very talented early in life. With his brother Constantijn Jr., he ground lenses and made astronomical observations. He also developed a very accurate pendulum clock and established a wave-theory of light. His discoveries attracted attention abroad, and, in 1666, he was asked to lead the newly founded Académie des Sciences in Paris. After a few years absence caused by illness, he resigned from the Académie. Later in life he wrote a book on cosmolog, called 'Cosmotheoros'.

Inventor of the pendulum clock ("slingeruurwerk") and the aerial telescope. Designer of the Huygens ocular. Huygens discovered the moon of Saturn (Titan) and explained that a ring was present around this planet. He also established the wave-theory of light.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave Leiden, Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht, Noordelijk Scheepvaart Museum Groningen.

Residence

• Den Haag 1629 - 1645
• Leiden 1645-05-12
• Breda 1647
• Paris 1660-10-12
• London 1661-03-19
• Den Haag 1661-05-27
• Paris 1633-04-03
• London 1663-06-07
• Paris 1663-10-01 - 1663-06-07
• Den Haag 1664-06-07
• Den Haag 1648-05~
• Spa 1654-08 - 1654-08~
• Paris 1655-07~ - 1655-11-26~
• Paris 1666 - 1681
• Den Haag 1681 - 1695

Occupation

• Instrument maker 

Education

• Law student 12-05-1645 - Universiteit Leiden
• Student at Breda 1646~ - 1648~ - Collegium Arausiacum - Breda

Membership

• Académie de Montmor
  Attendant 
• Académie Royale des Sciences
  Member 1665
• Royal Society of London
  Member 22-06-1663
• Académie de Thévenot
  Attendant 

Provenance

• Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederlandse Wiskundigen. http://www.bwnw.nl/
• Theoremata de quadratura hyperboles, ellipsis et circuli (1651)
• De Saturni Luna observatio nova (1656)
• Systema saturnium (1659)
• Horologium oscillatorium sive de motu pendularium (1673)
• Memoriën aengaende het slijpen van glasen tot verrekijckers (1685)
• Traité de la lumière (1690)
• Cosmotheoros (1698)
• Riekher, R. Fernrohre und ihre Meister: eine Entwicklungsgeschichte der Fernrohrtechnik (Berlin 1957).
• Ahlström, O. Synverktyg fran äldre tider (Stockholm 1943).
• Jorink, E. Reading the book of nature in the Dutch golden age, 1575-1715 (Leiden/Boston 2010).
• Doorman, G. Octrooien voor uitvindingen in de Nederlanden uit de 16e-18e eeuw : met bespreking van enkele onderwerpen uit de geschiedenis der techniek (Den Haag 1940).
• Zinner, E. Deutsche und Niederländische astronomische Instrumente des 11.-18. Jahrhunderts (München 1956).
• Forbes, R.J. Cultuurgeschiedenis van wetenschap en techniek ('s Gravenhage 1966).
• Nijland, A.A. Christiaan Huygens, in het bijzonder als astronoom (Groningen 1929).
• Crommelin, C.A. Christiaan Huygens (Gent 1938).
• Icke, V. De ruimte van Christiaan Huygens (Groningen 2009).
• Daumas, M. Scientific instruments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and their makers (London 1972).
• Harting, P. ' De tien-voets kijker van Christiaan Huygens', in: Album der Natuur (1867).
• Michel, H. Instruments des sciences dans l'art et l'histoire (Rhode-St-Genèse 1965).

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• scientific instruments
• optics

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Belkmeer was scientific instrument maker in Medemblik and Enkhuizen. He worked as a grocer and made microscopes in his spare time. He was the father of Petrus Belkmeer.

Belkmeer claimed to have improved the single lens microscope of Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek.

Residence

• Medemblik 1725~

Occupation

• Lector Gezicht- en Natuurkunde 1719~, Medemblik
• instrument maker 1700~, Medemblik

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Provenance

• Belkmeer, Jan Pieters, Twee redenvoeringen, waar van de eerste behelst, de nootzakelykheyt om zijn verstant te oeffenen, in welken staat of gelegentheyt men ook gestelt is, en het nut dat daar uyt volgt : de tweede handelt over de voornaamste deelen van de Vergezigt-kunde (Amsterdam 1719).

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• optics

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In 1795 Vosch van Avesaat exploited a glass factory in Den Bosch, were he made 'white glass'. A the time this was the only factory in the Dutch Republic making such transparent glass. He made optical glassware as well.

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Occupation

• owner of a glass factory 1795, 's-Hertogenbosch

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Scientific instrument maker in Amsterdam (located at the corner of Paapenburgsteeg and Paapenburg ("'...boven den uitdrager op de onderste kamer, daar de cataract-bril boven de deur staat'") ('...above the secondhand dealer, the room below, where the cataract-glasses are shown above the door'). Bunders made achromatic lenses. He was a grandson and disciple of Jan van Deijl.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1797

Occupation

• Instrument maker 1797~, Amsterdam

Education

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Membership

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Provenance

• Bolle, B., Barometers in beeld (Lochem/Poperinge 1983), 118; 241 (vt. nt. 217).
• Rooseboom, M., Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).

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• optics
• scientific instruments

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Microscope, telescope and spectacle maker in Amsterdam. In 1727 Sommer advertised for the first time for his optical products, stating he could be contacted in Amsterdam, both at the coffee shop of J. van der Wal at the 'Paradijsvogel' on the Rokin, or in The Hague. The instruments made by him - and his wife - were present in many instrument cabinets of the Amsterdam upper class. For instance in the instrument cabinet of the merchant Anthony Bierens (auctioned in 1747) some 30 optical objects were present, including 'an object and an eye glass fitted in a wooden holder, for an astronomical telescope of B. Sommer'. Other optical equipment made by Sommers is mentioned in the collections of Lambert ten Kate (Amsterdam 1737), Jeremias Face (Middelburg 1749), George Clifford (Amsterdam 1761) and Adriaan Assenborch (Utrecht ca. 1794). In the advertisements for the sale of the instrument cabinets of the Amsterdam (Mennonite) merchants Abraham Straalman (Leydse Courant, 19 November 1759) and Daniel de Vos (Leydse Courant, 20 November 1767), microscopes and glasses are mentioned 'most of the famous Sommers'. After Sommer's death (in 1733), his widow continued the workshop. Later she emigrated to New York.
Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden (solar microscope).

Residence

• Amsterdam 

Occupation

• Microscope, telescope and spectacle maker 1725~ - 1733, Amsterdam

Education

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Membership

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Provenance

• Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
• Jaarboek Amstelodamum 28 (1931), 113 and idem 49 (1957), p. 116.
• Fournier, M. Early microscopes; A Descriptive Catalogue (Leiden 2003).

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• scientific instruments
• optics

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Instrument maker from The Hague. Heynen made glasses around the middle of the nineteenth century. It is not known whether he and A.W. Heynen, also an instrument maker from The Hague, were related.

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Occupation

• instrument maker 1858~, Den Haag

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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• optics
• painting

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Silo was a gifted and skilled general technician, who became involved in making telescopes. In 1695 he worked in Amsterdam as a producer of gold threads ('gouddraattrecker'). According to the eulogy of an anonymous friend (the painter Cornelis Ploos van Amstel?), Silo specialized in the production of metal tubes. As a producer of metal tubes he was introduced into telescope making. In the 1690s Silo invented a way of pulling lead and tin tubes, which mostly were used for distillation equipment and fountains, including those in the French waterworks of Marly and Fontainebleau. Silo is also credited for the invention of cutting rods for velvet weavers. ('snijroeden voor de fluweelwevers). In these years Silo started to make drawings of ships at the Amsterdam dockyards. This activity combined with his mathematical and technical skills, led him to propose some improvements in shipbuilding. He also learnt to paint, and evolved into a marine painter, signing his paintings with the letters 'A.S.'. In 1698 he instructed the Russian Czar Peter the Great in these matters. Through his painting, Silo also became interested in optics, and so he started to grind lenses. According to the Amsterdam historian Johannes Wagenaar, Silo made good telescopes, magnifying glasses and also wax models. One of his (now lost) wax models was a portrait of the merchant Jacobus van de Wall, a friend who much later - in the 1740s - became responsible for the design and construction of the largest reflecting telescope ever made in the eighteenth-century Netherlands. An objective glass made by Adam Silo was in the collection of the Dutch philosopher and optician Frans Hemsterhuis, a man who in the eighteenth century still continued the quest for optical knowledge which was pursued by his Dutch forefathers already more than a century earlier.

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Occupation

• technician 1700~ - 1760, Amsterdam

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Provenance

• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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• scientific instruments
• applied mathematics
• optics

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Dutch mathematician and mayor of Amsterdam. Was in contact with Spinoza on the construction of telescopic lenses. Invertor of the single lens microscope, which instrument was used by Huygens, Van Leeuwenhoek and Hartsoeker. He also invented a device used for cleaning the water in the city canals in Amsterdam.

Residence

• Leiden 1654 - 1663
• Amsterdam 1663

Occupation

• Mayor 1672 - 1703, Amsterdam
• Chancellor and deputy of the admiralty 
• Member city council 1663, Amsterdam

Education

• Law 1648 - Universiteit Leiden

Membership

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Provenance

• Stapel, F.W. Johannes Hudde over de balansen van de Oostindische Compagnie ('s Gravenhage 1927).
• Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), Deel 1, p.1171
• Houtzager, H.L. ' Johannes Hudde, een veelzijdig Amsterdams regent', in: Holland 19, afl. 1 (1987).
• Houtzager, H.L. 'Johannes Hudde en zijn vergrotende glazen bolletjes', in: Scientiarum Historia 31, afl. 2 (2005).
• Huygens, Chr. Œuvre complètes de Christiaan Huygens I (La Haye 1888/Amsterdam 1967).
• Vermij, R.H. 'Bijdrage tot de bio-bibliografie van Johannes Hudde', in: Gewina 18, afl. 1 (1995).
• Vermij, R. ' Specilla circularia: an Unknown Work by Johannes Hudde', in: Studia Leibnitiana : Vierteljahrschrift für Philosophie und Geschichte der Wissenschaften 27, afl. 2 (1995).

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• natural philosophy
• optics
• scientific instruments

Biography:
Natural philosopher in the seventeenth century Dutch Republic. From the early 1660s onwards he worked as an optical instrument maker. in September 1661 Spinoza was for the first time mentioned as a lens grinder in the diary of Olaus Borrichius. T. Kerckring had a microscope made by Spinoza. A German inventory of the scientific instruments in the estate of the late Duke Ernst of Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (1601-1675), described a telescope of Spinoza as 'a Dutch tube, made by Spinoza, with seven green draw tubes, containing five glasses, and covered with black embossed leather, in a black casing'. However Spinoza's own estate mentions among his tools only 'some glass and plated iron pipes for the construction of his telescopes'. As the German description fits the contemporary appearance of local German telescopes, it seems probable that the German Duke had put Spinoza's lenses in a tube made by a local German craftsman.

One of the founders of the Jewish Enlightenment, The Halaska. Also known as a maker of optical instruments.

Residence

• Voorburg 1663 - 1669
• Rijnsburg 1660 - 1663
• Den Haag 1669 - 1677

Occupation

• optical instrument maker 1669 - 1677, Den Haag
• optical instrument maker 1661 - 1663, Rijnsburg
• optical instrument maker 1663 - 1669, Voorburg

Education

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Membership

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Provenance

• Klever, W. N. A. & J. Van Zuylen, “Insignis Opticus. Spinoza in de geschiedenis van de optica”, De Zeventiende Eeuw 6 (1990), pp. 47–63.

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Dissertation: 'et curatione generale omnium morborum'

Highest degree: PhD

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• optics

Biography:
Belkmeer worked in Enkhuizen as a surgeon. He also made microscopes.
Son of Jan Pieters Belkmeer.

Collection: Science Museum London (microscope, signed: 'Petrus Belkmeer me fecit Enchusae Anno MDCCXXXII').

Residence

• Enkhuizen 1732~

Occupation

• surgeon and amateur microscoop maker 1732~, Enkhuizen

Education

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Provenance

• Dissertatio inauguralis (Harderwijk 1725)
• Gorter, J. de. De perspiratione insensibili (Leiden 1736), Tab. III (gravure)
• Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).

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• scientific instruments
• optics

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C.L. van der Voodt was optician and watch maker in Antwerpen between 1866-1874 (company at Quai Ste Aldegonde 52). Perhaps family of A., Emile J., J, and Louis van der Voodt?

Residence

• Antwerpen 

Occupation

• Optician and watch maker 1866 - 1874, Antwerpen

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Provenance

• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Mirror and microscope maker in Luik. In 1691 Villette opened an optician's shop. His mirrors and microscopes were greatly appreciated.

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Occupation

• Owner of an optician shop 1691 - 1736, Liège

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Provenance

• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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• optics
• scientific instruments

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Gerrit Stevens Cramer (d. Groningen, 1755) was a Groningen optical instrument maker. In 1729 he started a workshop in the Steentilstraat. In 1731, together with his relative J. Doornbusch, he made a large sundial that - to this day - can be seen above the entrance gate of the Prinsenhof in Groningen. Together with the Frisian reflecting telescope makers Wytze Foppes and Jan van der Bildt, he was an engineer ('vernuftelingen'), who in the early 1740s received support from Stadholder William IV. After Cramer's death, his optical workshop was continued by his nephew Jan Derks Cremer (c. 1706-1780).

For his obituary, see the Opregte Groninger Courant, 15 August 1755. In December 1781, Cramer's glass grinding equipment, which had been used until then by Cramer's nephew Jan Derks Cremer, was put up for sale. In 1791, this set was bought by the Groningen apothecary Boudewijn Tieboel for the optician Willem Trapman.

Collections: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes (refracting telescope with copper tubes), Museum Boerhaave Leiden (a reflecting telescope made by Cramer in cooperation with Jan van der Bildt, several microscopes).

Residence

• Groningen 1729 - 1755

Occupation

• scientific and optical instrument maker 1729 - 1755, Groningen

Education

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Membership

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Provenance

• Morpurgo, E., Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970), 30.
• Nuyens, B.W.Th. (ed.), Petri Camperi Itinera in Angliam, 1748-1785 (Amsterdam 1939), 124.
• Rooseboom, M., Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
• Fournier, M., Early microscopes : a descriptive catalogue (Leiden 2003), 206.
• Zuidervaart, H.J., Speculatie, wetenschap en vernuft : fysica en astronomie volgens Wytze Foppes Dongjuma (1707-1778), instrumentmaker te Leeuwarden (Leeuwarden 1995), 10.
• correspondence between B. Tieboel and J.H. van Swinden in: Leiden University Library: BPL 755.
• Zeeman, J., De Nederlandse Staande Klok (Zwolle 1996), 470.

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• mathematics
• physics
• optics

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Silversmith, lens grinder and instrument maker in Dordrecht (Heenestraat). Marcel was also a teacher in mathematics and physics. He experimented with magnets and he founded in the early eighteenth century a local physical society, gathering in a formal way several scientific enthusiasts in his home town Dordrecht. He was a cousin of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave Leiden (lenses), Gemeente Archief Dordrecht (a portrait by Aart Schouwman).

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Occupation

• silversmith, lens grinder and instrument maker 1700~ - 1748, Dordrecht
• Teacher in mathematics and physics  - 1748, Dordrecht

Education

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Membership

• Natuurkundig Genootschap - DordrechtDordrecht
  president 1740 - 1748

Provenance

• Zuidervaart, H.J. Van 'konstgenoten' en hemelse fenomenen; Nederlandse sterrenkunde in de achttiende eeuw (Rotterdam 1999).
• A portret of Marcel is in Gemeentearchief Dordrecht.

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