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John Fromanteel (1638-c. 1690) was the son of the famous London clockmaker Ahasuerus Fromantee sr. After an apprenticeship with his father in 1651, Fromanteel worked for Salomon Coster. In 1659, later Fromanteel went back to London where he and his father made the first pendulum clocks in England. Fromanteel became a freeman in 1663 and after that took four apprentices, one of them being his son Ahasuerus (the third) in 1679. In 1681 John returned to the Netherlands and settled with his brother Ahasuerus jr. as a clockmaker on the Vijgendam in Amsterdam. John seemed to have travelled back frequently to London.

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• clockmaker 1657

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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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

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• 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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De Roos was "IJkmeester" (person who determined and controlled measures) of the district Arnhem, from 03-11-1842. Possibly he also made coin weights.

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• IJkmeester 03-11-1842, Arnhem

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• Wittop Koning, D.A. en G.M.M. Houben. 2000 jaar gewichten in de Nederlanden (Lochem/Poperinge 1980).

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Roman was publisher in Middelburg around 1628. He published paper quadrants and astrolabes according to P. Lansbergen. These were mounted on wood. One of them is signed: 'En praescriptie P. Lansbergy, Franse. Schelleman sculps. Anno christi 1628. Middelburgi, prostant apud Zacharias Roomannum'.

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• Middelburg 

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• publisher 1628~, Middelburg

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Syds Johannes Rienks (1770-1845) was a microscope and telescope maker from Ferwerderadeel. He developed his skills until he could make a living as a professional instrument maker. Trained by Arjen Roelofs in 1798, he went to Delft in 1805, where he worked for a short time in the scientific instrument factory of Onderdewijngaart Canzius. After the closure of this facory in 1810 he returned to Friesland. In 1819-1825 (by the order of King Willem I) Rienks and his companion Roelofs were commisioned to make two large telescopes for the astronomical observatories in Utrecht and Leiden. However these telescopes appeared to be useless for astronomy. Nevertheless Rienks again moved to Holland in 1826, this time to Leiden, where he stayed until his death in 1845.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden (reflecting microscopes and reflecting telescopes - also a mirror signed 'Rienks en Beijerinck'), Universiteitsmuseum, Utrecht, Eisinga Planetarium, Franeker, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes, Wassenaar.

Residence

• Delft 1805 - 1810
• Ferwert 1816 - 1822
• Hallum 1810 - 1816
• Berlicum 1822 - 1826
• Leiden 1826 - 1845

Occupation

• microscope and telescope maker 1826 - 1845, Leiden
• telescope maker 1798 - 1805~, Hallum
• telescope maker 1805~ - 1806~, Delft
• microscope and telescope maker 1806~ - 1826, Hallum

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• Rooseboom, M., Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
• Bilt, J. van der, De grote spiegelkijkers van Roelofs en Rienks : een episode uit de geschiedenis der Leidse en Utrechtse sterrewachten (1821-1846) (Leiden 1951).
• Bilt, J. van der ‘Over de kleine kijkers en de microscopen van Sieds Johannes Rienks’, in: Hemel en dampkring 50 (1952), 181–191.
• Meerman, J. 'Merkwaardige Berigten wegens drie uitmuntende vervaardigers van optisch en andere physische instrumenten', in: Algemeene Konst- en Letterbode II (Haarlem 1810), 4-9, 19-25.
• Rienks, S.J. 'Afbeelding en beschrijving van eenen nieuwen aardwagen uitgevonden door S.J. Rienks', in: Algemeene Konst- en Letterbode I (Haarlem 1829), 233-235.
• Louwman, P.J.K. & H.J. Zuidervaart, A certain instrument for seeing far. Four centuries of styling the telescope, Illustrated by a selection of treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes (Wassenaar, 2013)
• Zuidervaart, H.J. 'Reflecting 'Popular Culture' : The Introduction, Diffusion, and Construction of the Reflecting Telescope in the Netherlands', in: Annals of Science 61, afl. 4 (2004), 407-452.
• Spoor, A. ‘Enige metingen en opmerkingen over spiegelkijkers van Rienks, Hommema en Heidanus’, in: De Vrije Fries, 41 (1953), 108–111.

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Scientific instrument maker from Dordrecht who was active in the early nineteenth century. Van Dam polished or grinded glasses.

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• Dordrecht 

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• glass grinder 1823~, Dordrecht

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Reinmann was instrument maker in Neurenberg, 1575 -1609. He made compasses and (pocket) sundials. He signed his instruments with a crown symbol (after his death this symbol was probably used by M.Lesel, until 1629).

Residence

• Nürnberg 

Occupation

• Instrument maker 1575 - 1609, Nürnberg

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• Zinner, E. Deutsche und Niederländische astronomische Instrumente (München 1966).
• Rohde, A. Die Geschichte der wissenschaflichten Instrumente (Leipzig 1923).

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A mathematical instrument maker in Leiden located at the Koepoortsgracht and Minnebroersgracht (" 't Slootgen Gods").He was registered as "mathematices instrumentmaker" on his marriage certificate dated 1619. He made mathematical and astronomical and surveying instruments, such as ("Hollandse Cirkels"), protractors, astrolabes and compasses. Brother of Jacob Davidt Jansz.

Collections:
Museum Boerhaave Leiden (graphometer),Kungliga Vetenskapakademien (geometrical compass), Westfries Museum Hoorn (circumferentor), Skokloster Castle, Sweden (circumferentor).

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• Leiden 1619~ - 1655~

Occupation

• instrument maker 1619~ - 1655~, Leiden

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• Milo, T.H. Hollands Glorie: De maritieme geschiedenis van Nederland (Delft 1955)
• Losman, A. and I. Sigurdson, 'Äldre vetenskapliga instrument pa Skokloster', in: Skokloster-studier 10 (1975), 99.
• Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
• Pipping, G. The Chamber of Physics: instruments in the history of sciences collections of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm (Stockholm 1977), 58 and 125.
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. Alphabetical list of Dutch instrument makers compiled by W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns (Amsterdam 1986).
• Notarieel archief Leiden, 506, Inv. nr. 346, fol. 92 & 126 (1633-34)
• Notarieel archief Leiden 506, Inv. nr. 348, fol. 126 (1638-40)
• Notarieel archief Leiden 506, Inv. nr. 350, fol. 50 (1649-57)
• Notarieel archief Leiden 506, Inv. nr. 346, fol. 51 (1633-34)

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• mills

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Scientific instrument maker who lived and worked in The Hague. He probably was related to Henry Dawans: both made geometrical instruments. Like Henry, Nicolas worked also for the Fundatie van Renswoude in The Hague (1758-1762). He also made several models of windmills.

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• Instrument maker 1758 - 1762 - Fundatie van de Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude van Renswoude - Den Haag, Den Haag

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

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A scientific instrument maker from Leuven, Belgium. Deems was active during the last part of the seventeenth century and made graphometers.

According to R. Gunther, author of "Early Science in Oxford": Vol I (1923) his name was Judocus Deens.

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• instrument maker 1682~, Leuven

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• Gunther, R. Early Science in Oxford I (Oxford 1923), 377.

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In 1857, instrument maker Johannes van Deene started his own workshop on the Heiligeweg in Amsterdam, where he made chemical and physical glass work. He moved his company to the Rokin in 1867. In the same year, his two sons became partners in his firm, a partnership that lasts until 1877. In the ten years father and sons worked closely together, the firm moved a couple of times. In 1877, when his sons had left the firm, he established his workshop on the Warmoesstraat 119. Eight years later, in 1885, he moved to the Wijde Lombardsteeg 5 and in 1902 to the Albert Cuypstraat 100. That was also the last year Van Deene worked as an instrument maker. He won several prizes for his thermometers at national exhibitions. He held a Royal warrant of appointment for his thermometers and hydrometers.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden, Teylers Museum Haarlem.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1857 - 1902

Occupation

• instrument maker 1857 - 1902, Amsterdam
• instrument maker and repairer 1865 - 1884 - Teylers Museum

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• http://www.gedbas.genealogy.net/person/show/1126389094
• "Familiebericht". "Het nieuws van den dag : kleine courant". Amsterdam, 19-01-1903. Geraadpleegd op Delpher op 23-02-2017, http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010128480:mpeg21:a0163

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Instrument maker (of compasses) and engraver of astrolabes. It seems that he was influenced by Gualtherus Arsenius and Gemma Frisius. he worked in Venice, Antwerp and Paris.

Collection: The British Museum London, Museo Correr, Venice.

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• instrument maker 1571 - 1580

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• Michel, H. Traite de l'astrolabe (Paris 1947), 167.
• http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=91720
• Jan van Maanen & Geert Vanpaemel, ‘Migratie patronen van wiskundigen in de Lage Landen 1550-1650. Een voorlopige schets’, Scientiarum Historia 32 (2006) 75-98.

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• globes

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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).

Residence

• Amsterdam 

Occupation

• instrument maker 1700 - 1725, Amsterdam

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• 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.
• Morpurgo, E. Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970), 33.
• Krogt, P. van der. Globi Neerlandici (Utrecht 1989).

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"IJkmeester" from Antwerp who was active at the end of the sixteenth century.

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• IJkmeester 1580~, Antwerpen

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Instrument maker from Brussels. Dodasme made telescopes.

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• instrument maker 1697~, Brussel

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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• submarine
• chemistry
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Instrument maker | inventor | painter who lived in Haarlem, Amsterdam, Prague and London. He made a water pump (for which he received a patent for 25 years in 1598), optical intruments and a clock with a perpetual motion. He was also an engraver and grinded lenses. In 1604, he and his wife Sophia, sister of his former tutor Hendrik Goltzius, moved to England where Drebbel started working for King James I of England. In 1610 Drebbel and family were invited to come to the court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. After Rudolf's death in 1612, Drebbel went back to London. In 1619 Drebbel designed and built telescopes and microscopes and was involved in a building project for the Duke of Buckingham. Drebbel became famous for his invention in 1621 of a microscope with two convex lenses. Several authors, including Christiaan Huygens, assigned the invention of the compound microscope to Drebbel. In 1624 Galileo sent a Drebbel-type microscope to Federico Cesi, a wealthy noble citizen of Rome, who used it to illustrate Apiarum, his book about bees. He also built the first navigable submarine in 1620 while working for the English Royal Navy. Using William Bourne's design from 1578, he manufactured a steerable submarine with a leather-covered wooden frame. Between 1620 and 1624 Drebbel successfully built and tested two more submarines, each one bigger than the last. The final (third) model had 6 oars and could carry 16 passengers. This model was demonstrated to King James I in person and several thousand Londoners. The submarine stayed submerged for three hours and could travel from Westminster to Greenwich and back, cruising at a depth of from 12 to 15 feet (4 to 5 metres). Drebbel even took James in this submarine on a test dive beneath the Thames, making James I the first monarch to travel underwater. This submarine was tested many times in the Thames, but it couldn't attract enough enthusiasm from the Admiralty and was never used in combat. Drebbel's most famous written work was Een kort Tractaet van de Natuere der Elementen (A short treatise of the nature of the elements) (Haarlem, 1621). He was also involved in the invention of mercury fulminate. He had found out that mixtures of 'spiritus vini' with mercury and silver in 'aqua fortis' could explode. The story goes that, while making a coloured liquid for a thermometer Cornelis dropped a flask of Aqua regia on a tin window sill, and discovered that stannous chloride makes the color of carmine much brighter and more durable. Though the inventor himself never made much money from his work, his daughters Anna and Catharina and his sons-in-law Abraham and Johannes Sibertus Kuffler set up a very successful dye works. One was set up in 1643 in Bow, London, and the resulting color was called bow dye. The recipe for 'color Kufflerianus' was kept a family secret and the new bright red color was all the rage in Europe

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• instrument maker 1595 - 1633

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• Morpurgo, E. Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970), 35.
• Een kort tractaet van de natuere der elementen, ende hoe sy veroorsaecken den wint, regen, blixem, donder ende waeromme dienstich zijn (Rotterdam 1621).
• Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
• Snelders, H. Alkmaarse natuurwetenschappers uit de 16e en 17e eeuw (1980).
• Berkel, K. van, e.a. A History of Science in the Netherlands (Leiden 1999), 441.
• Wonder-vondt van de eeuwighe bewegingh (Alkmaar 1607).
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Drebbel

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Instrument maker from Amsterdam. Likely he was the successor of Jan Kaen, who had his workshop on the Halsteeg. Drielenburg was active during the seventeenth century and made weights and balance scales.

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• instrument maker 1648 - 1674, Amsterdam

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• Wittop Koning, D.A. en G.M.M. Houben, 2000 jaar gewichten in de Nederlanden (Lochem/Poperinge 1980), 142, 158 and 170.

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• sundials

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Instrument maker from Paris. Dujardin made sundials, and signed his work with 'Piere Dujardin A Paris Lejeune'.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden.

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• instrument maker 1648~, Paris

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• Lloyd, S.A. Ivory diptych sundials, 1570-1750 (Cambridge 1992), 100.

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Instrument maker who was active during the end of the sixteenth century. Van den Eedt made a sundial.

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• instrument maker 1586~

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• Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
• Morpurgo, E. Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970), 38.

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Instrument maker from Utrecht. Made a yellow copper quadrant (signed 'G.K. Eger, Utrecht' and auctioned in 1906).

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• instrument maker 1840~, Utrecht

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

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