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Instrument maker from The Hague. He grinded ocular lenses for Christiaan and Constantijn Huygens (ca. 1682-1694), to whom he lived very close to.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden.

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• instrument maker 1682 - 1694, Den Haag

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• Helden A.C. van, and R.H. van Gent, The Huygens Collection (Leiden 1995), 20.
• Huygens, Chr. Oeuvres Complètes.
• Huygens Jr., Con. Journaal II (Utrecht 1877).

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Instrument maker from Brussels.

Collection: Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht (a cardboard tellurium, 1829).

Residence

• Brussel 1829

Occupation

• instrument maker 1829~, Brussel

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Pruymboom was instrument maker, probably eighteenth century.

Collection: Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht (a signed kaleidoscope).

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• Instrument maker [1700..]

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Prins was an instrument maker in Amsterdam, in the first half eighteenth century. Successor of Fahrenheit as instrument maker. Johan Lulofs and Petrus van Musschenbroek used his thermometers.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden (cistern barometer, a mercury thermometer and a reflecting telescope), Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht (thermometers and barometers).

Residence

• Amsterdam 

Occupation

• Instrument maker 1700~ - 1756, Amsterdam

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• Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
• Bolle, B. Barometers in beeld (lochem 1983).
• Kernkamp, G.W. Acta et dereta senatus (Utrecht 1940).
• Fokker, A.D. en A.M. Muntendam. Gids door de verzameling van natuurkundige instrumenten in Teyler's Museum te Haarlem (Haarlem 1933).
• Cittert, P.H. 'Oude thermometers', in: De natuur : populair geïllustreerd maandschrift, gewijd aan de natuurkundige wetenschappen en hare toepassingen 50 (1930).
• Jeltes, P.A. Physisch kabinet en voorwerpen van onderscheiden aard, nagelaten door denweled. zeer gel. heer P.A.Jeltes, medicinae doctor te 's Gravenhage (Den Haag 1890).
• Ebeling, E. Naamlijst en korte beschrijving van wis- en natuurkundige werktuigen, bij één verzameld door den weledelen heer Mr. E. Ebeling (Amsterdam 1789).
• Musschenbroek, P. van. Collectio exquisitissima instrumentorum quibus usus fuit Pt. van Musschenbroek (Leyden 1762).
• Luc, J.A. de. Recherches sur les modifications de l'athmosphere, contenant: l'histoire critique du barometre et du thermometre, un traité sur la construction de ces instrumens, des experiences relatives a leurs usages, et principalement à la mesure des hauteurs & à la correction des refractions moyennes (Genève 1772).
• Musschenbroek, P. van. Essai de physique : avec une description de nouvelles sortes de machines pneumatiques (Leyden 1739).
• Musschenbroek, P. van. Beginselen der natuurkunde, beschreven ten dienste der landgenooten (Leyden 1736 en 1739).
• Leiden, MB: a 138 l Brief van Hendrik Prins aan P. van Musschenbroek (1736).

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• scientific instruments
• navigation

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Abraham van Emden was a scientific and navigational instrument maker in Amsterdam who after 1822 worked in the business of his uncles, scientific instrument makers Abraham and Jacob van Laun. From 1831-1850 this was situated in the Kalverstraat, opposite the Nieuwezijds Kapel, and thereafter in the Kalverstraat near the Jonge Roelensteeg. After Van Emden's death in 1860, his widow Sarah van Lier continued the firm until her death in 1879, with Willem Boosman and Jacobus de Vries as employees. Boosman continued the business until 1881.The firm made a variety of instruments, including navigating, air pumps, microscopes, thermometers, magic lanterns, weather (lightning) houses, and compasses. Van Emden also made instruments for Felix Merites.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Teylers Museum, Haarlem (thermometer), Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam (compasses, mercury thermometer), Museum Scheveningen, (octant), Museon, The Hague, Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, De Bilt, Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum, Groningen, Veenkoloniaal Museum, Veendam.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1794 - 1860

Occupation

• Instrument maker 1822 - 1860, Amsterdam

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• Morzer Bruyns, W.F.J., 'Navigational Instruments in the Netherlands during the 19th century: Production, Distribution and Use', in: Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 6 (1985), 12.
• About the successor of Van Emden see: Gemeente Archief Haarlem: Archief Nederlandsche Maatschappij ter bevordering van Volks Nijverheid, Inv.nr. 212/12
• Kuile, S. ter, and W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca.1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam 1999), 63.
• Groenendijk, N. Catalogus van de verzameling Groenendijk omvattende natuurkundige en chemische instrumenten, preparaten en bibliotheek. (1956), 10 and 14.
• Crommelin, C.A. Descriptive catalogue of the physical instruments of the 18th century (including the collection 's Gravesande-Musschenbroek) in de Rijksmuseum voor de geschiedenis en natuurwetenschappen. (Leiden 1951), 64.
• Mac Lean, J. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der Nederlandse instrumentenmakerijen in de periode 1781-1881. (Leiden 1976), 12-20.
• Bolle, B. Barometers in beeld. (Lochem-Poperinge 1983).
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. 'Alphabetical list of Dutch instrument makers compiled by W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns'. (Amsterdam 1986).
• Claassen, R. and P. Wisse, Tweehonderd jaar Diligentia: 1793-1993. (Den Haag 1993), 77.
• Kaiser, F. 'Rapport aan Zijne Excellentie den Minister van Marine, over de verificatie van 's Rijks zee-instrumenten, gedurende het jaar 1866' in: Mededelingen betreffende het zeewezen IX (Den Haag 1886), 5-7.
• mentioned in: Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, Archief Felix Meritis 59.260-263.
• Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden. (Leiden 1950).
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. 'Lijst van instrumenten in het Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum Amsterdam'. (Amsterdam 1971), 22.
• Logeman, W.M. 'Toestel tot aanwijzing der aard- en maanbaan: [uitgedacht door M.J. Berckenhoff en verkrijgbaar bij A. van Emden]', in: Album der natuur: een werk ter verspreiding van natuurkennis onder beschaafde lezers van allerlei stand (1868), 19-20.

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Gerard Epkens was a scientific instrument and compass maker in Amsterdam, from 1853-1870, in 1853 on the Oudekerksplein, in 1854 on the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, from 1856-1857 on the Lindengracht, from 1858-1866 on the Lange Niezel, from 1867-1868 on the Prinsengracht at the Elandsgracht, and from 1869-1870 in the Spuistraat near the Lijnbaansgracht. From 1861-1868 the firm was recorded as 'G. Epkens & Co', in 1871 the firm was no longer mentioned. Epkens made mathematical, navigational and physical instruments, including a telescope, a sextant and an ophthalmoscope.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden (sextant), Teylers Museum, Haarlem.

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• instrument maker 1853 - 1870, Amsterdam

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• Kuile, S. ter and W.F.J. Morzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse komapsmakers ca.1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam, 1999) 63-64.

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Instrument maker from Amsterdam. Van Eyck made optical, physical, electrical and mathematical instruments.

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Occupation

• instrument maker 1850~, Amsterdam

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

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(Master) Compass maker from Harlingen, Friesland. He was active around the middle of the eighteenth century.

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Occupation

• instrument maker 1749, Harlingen

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• Nieuwland, P., De quotisatiekohieren : namen, beroepen en welstand van de Friese bevolking in 1749, dl. 3 (Leeuwarden 1983), 78.

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Nautical instrument maker who lived and worked on the Nieuwendijk, Vlissingen (Zeeland). He made compasses and canvas (for sailing). He sold his company on 31 / 12 / 1891 to John van Boven.

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Occupation

• instrument maker 1860~ - 1891, Vlissingen

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Idsaard Gerbens van den Velde was a scientific instrument maker from Franeker. In 1768 he is mentioned there as a telescope maker. According to Van Swinden, Van den Velde 'made excellent telescopes'. In about 1780 Van den Velde moved to Haarlem as a general scientific instrument maker. At a later date he joined the scientific instrument factory of Jacob Hendrik Onderdewijngaart Canzius in Delft, which existed between 1797 and 1809.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave Leiden, Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes, Wassenaar.

Residence

• Franeker 1768 - 1779
• Haarlem 1780

Occupation

• scientific instrument maker 1768 - 1780~, Franeker
• scientific instrument maker 1780~, Haarlem

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Provenance

• Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden tot omstreeks 1840 (Leiden 1950).
• Engberts, E. Descriptive catalogue of telescopes in the Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen (Leiden 1970).
• http://data.collectienederland.nl/page/aggregation/museumboerhaave/V08161

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Scientific instrument maker from Delft. Son of the instrument maker Gerard Bernard Anton Filbri (c. 1769-1830). He married Johanna Elisabeth Christiana Samson (d. Delft 1904). After his father's death in 1830, Filbri took over his workshop in Delft. Thanks to P.J. Kipp, who in 1834 established an instrument trading company in Delft, the Filbri firm did rather well. The Kipp company did not have a workshop of its own until 1881. Since its foundation the company contracted out the manufacture and repair of instruments to G.B.H. Filbri's workshop. Between 1830 and 1880 Filbri made surgical, physical and chemical instruments, mostly sold by Kipp, but also retailed by J. Pohl in The Hague. In 1857 Filbri owned a house at the Molslaan. In the Delft Adresboekje of that year he is the only Filbri mentioned as instrumentmaker. In 1880, for reasons of health Filbri had to stop working. Nevertheless the Delft Adresboekje of 1881 mentions 'G.B.H. Filbri, instrumentmaker' at Oosteinde 15. His son Johannis Maarten Filbri continued the workshop at the same address, but when in 1881 J.W. Giltay became the director of the Kipp company their cooperation with the Filbri workshop was seized. Then two of his sons (G.B.H. jr. en M.P.) already had left Delft.

Collections: none.

Residence

• Delft 1830 - 1880

Occupation

• instrument maker 1830 - 1880, Delft

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Provenance

• H.C. Pouls, De Landmeter: Inleiding in de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Landmeetkunde (Alphen a/d Rijn, 1997).
• M. Rooseboom, Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).

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Primavesi was barometer and thermometer maker, ca. 1740-1775 in Amsterdam. Until ca. 1760 he was associated with his father Frans Primavesi. In 1766 he was a witness at the baptism of a child of his colleague Carel Ruspinus. Since 1770 Primavesi worked as a companion of Bianchi. Probably he continued the firm (Bianchi Primavesi & Comp.) with his father.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden (thermometer), Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht (barometers signed: 'L. Primauesi Fec. Amsterdam' | '2 Amst. 1740').

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Occupation

• Barometer and thermometer maker 1740 - 1775, Amsterdam

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• Bolle, B. Barometers in beeld (Lochem 1983).

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• astronomy
• cartography
• geography
• mathematics

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Plancius was clergyman but also astronomer, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and instrument maker. He came to Amsterdam in 1585 and was teacher in navigation. He made an instrument for finding the longitude on sea (for which he received a patent of the Staten van Holland). He delivered globes and sea maps: it is uncertain whether he made these himself. Plancius 'made' three globes with Pieter van den Keere. Plancius was the author and Van den Keere the publisher. Was associated with, among others: Jodocus Hondius, Hessel Gerrits and Willem Barents.

Collection: Maritiem Museum Prins Hendrik Rotterdam, Scheepvaart Museum Amsterdam, Skokloster Sweden, Museo Astronomico, Rome.

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Occupation

• Instrument maker , Amsterdam
• teacher of navigation , Amsterdam
• clergyman 

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Provenance

• Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
• Losman, A. en I. Sigurdsson. Äldre vetenskapliga Instrument på Skokloster : Scientific Instruments of the 16th-18th centuries at Skokloster Castle (Uppsala 1975).
• Keuning, J. Petrus Plancius : theoloog en geograaf 1552-1622 (Amsterdam 1946).
• Krogt, Peter van der. Old globes in the Netherlands : a catalogue of terrestrial and celestial globes made prior to 1850 and preserved in Dutch collections (Utrecht 1984).

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• cartography
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Pisani was cartographer and astronomer, born in Napels around 1575, moved to Antwerp in 1613. Had contact with Odon van Maelcote, Keppler and Galilei. He made an armillary sphere

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Occupation

• Astronomer and cartographer 1613~, Antwerpen

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Around 1920 Pieterman started a glass company with H.C. Brinkers in Rotterdam. They made (a.o.) concave glass, which was used for glass devices for labs. After World War II the name of the company is changed into Applikon B.V. (Schiedam).

Residence

• Rotterdam 1920

Occupation

• owner of a glass making company 1920, Rotterdam

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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A mahogany barometer signed by 'H. Zondervan, Sittard' was auctioned in 1976.

Residence

• Sittard 1850~

Occupation

• Barometer maker 1850~, Sittard

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Provenance

• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J., Alphabetical list of Dutch instrument makers compiled by W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns (Amsterdam 1986).

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Pontenz was a compass maker at the St. Olofspoort in Amsterdam. Son of Jan Pont.

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Occupation

• instrument maker 1500~ - 1549, Amsterdam
• compass maker , Amsterdam

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• Kuile, S. ter; W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca. 1580-1850 (Amsterdam 1999), 94.

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Maker of balance scales in the Kalverstraat, Amsterdam. After Groengraft passed away his was (possibily) succeeded by his daughter. Eventually, balance maker and "ijkmeester" Jacob L'Admiraal (his son in law) took over the Groengragt business. Groengraft was appointed as "ijkmeester" at 28 January 1718.

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Occupation

• instrument maker and ijkmeester 1701~, Amsterdam

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Provenance

• Wittop Koning, D.A. and G.M.M. Houben. 2000 jaar gewichten in de Nederlanden (Lochem/Poperinge 1980).
• Resolutien van de Heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland (1745), 204.

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• astronomy
• surveying

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Scientific instrument maker in Leeuwarden. Originally trained as a carpenter, Foppes eventually became a surveyor and scientific instrument maker. Around 1750, he settled as a telescope and microscope maker. He made also medical, mathematical and surveying instruments. He made two trigonometric machines for Stadholder Willem IV, one of which was donated to the Leiden University by Willem's widow, Anna van Hannover. Foppes made astronomical observations, in 1760 the Gedeputeerde Staten of Friesland awarded him a grant of 250 guilders to build a device for observing the transit of Venus, in June 1761. He was also assigned an observation site, the Cammingaburg just outside Leeuwarden. Foppes Dongjuma also invented a magnetic variometer, probably in 1765.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Universiteitsmuseum, Utrecht, Universiteitsmuseum, Groningen, Eisinga-Planetarium, Franeker, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam (a Holland circle).

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• scientific instrument maker and astronomical observer 1751 - 1775, Leeuwarden

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• Clercq, P. de., ‘A Princely Piece from Friesland. The ‘‘Trigonometrical Instrument’’ of Wytze Foppes’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 47 (1995), 14-16.
• Grooss, K. 'Chirurgische instrumentenverzameling'', in: F.G. Huisman, Gezond weer op in Groningen : gezondheidszorg en medisch beroep 1500-1900 (Groningen 1993).
• Rooseboom, M., Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J, 'Lijst van instrumenten in de verzameling van het Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum Amsterdam'. (Amsterdam 1971).
• Zuidervaart, H.J., Speculatie, wetenschap en vernuft : fysica & astronomie volgens Wytze Foppes Dongjuma (1707-1778), instrumentmaker te Leeuwarden (Leeuwarden 1995).
• 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.
• Zuidervaart, H.J., Van 'Konstgenoten' en hemelse fenomenen. Nederlandse sterrenkunde in de achttiende eeuw (Rotterdam 1999).

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In 1917 dr. M. de Wit founded the instrument making firm 'De Wit' in Hengelo. Produced mostly measurement instruments, like manometers. Currently the company is part of B.V. Instrumentenfabriek I.F.G. de Wit in Roden.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden.

Residence

• Hengelo 

Occupation

• Founder and owner of an instrument company 1917, Hengelo

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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