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• scientific instruments
• cartography
• navigation

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Johannes van Keulen was a scientific and navigational instrument maker, book seller and chart maker in Amsterdam, he was admitted to the booksellers guild in 1725. Johannes was the son of Gerard van Keulen, and the father of Gerard Hulst van Keulen. Johannes joined his father's firm 'In de Gekroonde Lootsman' in the Nieuwe Brugsteeg, in 1724. A year later, after his father's death Van Keulen took over the firm. From 1743 onwards he was the official chart maker of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the following year he started making octants, and called himself mathematical instrument maker. Until his death in 1755 Johannes continued as cartographer, publisher, compass, backstaff and cross-staff maker. After his death in 1755, his wife (Catharina Buijs) took over the firm, together with their two sons, Gerard Hulst van Keulen and Cornelis Buijs van Keulen. Between 1755-1779 the firm was called Johannes van Keulen & Zoonen.

Collections: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam, Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum, Groningen, Universiteitsmuseum, Utrecht, Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen, Museon,The Hague, Museum Vlaardingen, Maritiem en Juttersmuseum, Texel, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Museum fur Hamburgische Geschichte, Deutsches Hydrographisches Institut, Hamburg, Handels -og Sjofartsmuseet Kronborg, Denmark, Tonder Museum, Denmark,The Stuart Museum, Montreal, Canada, The Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum, Chicago, Illinois, Bergens Sjofartsmuseum, Norway, Musee national de la Marine, Paris, Stenomuseum, Arhus, Denmark, Geo Forschungs Zentrum, Potsdam, Germany, Naval Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, Reddingmusem 'Abraham Fock', Hollum, Ameland.

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• Instrument maker, publisher and cartographer 1724 - 1755, Amsterdam

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• Kuile, S. ter and W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca.1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam 1999).
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. Schip recht door zee: de octant in de Republiek in de achttiende eeuw. (Amsterdam 2003).
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. The cross-staff: history and development of a navigational instrument. (Amsterdam/Zutphen 1994).
• Keulen, E.O. van, W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, et al, 'In de Gekroonde Lootsman': het kaarten-, boekuitgevers en instrumentenmakershuis Van Keulen te Amsterdam 1680-1885. (Utrecht 1989).
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. 'The Cross-Staff Ten Years Later An Update with Recently Found Examples', in: Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 80 (2004).

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• scientific instruments

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Luder was medallist in Amsterdam, ca 1721-1741. In 1741 Luder supplied a model of the scoop wheel of a drainage mill to the Leyden University. 's Gravesande probably had ordered this model.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden (model of scoop wheel of drainage mill).

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• Instrument maker 1724~ - 1741, Amsterdam

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• Doorman, G. Octrooien voor uitvindingen in de Nederlanden uit de 16e-18e eeuw : met bespreking van enkele onderwerpen uit de geschiedenis der techniek ('s-Gravenhage 1940).

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Son of instrument maker and chemist Petrus Jacobus KIpp. Took over his father's company together with his brother Wilhelmus Arnoldus. In 1866, the two rename the company into P.J. Kipp en Zonen (P.J. Kipp and Sons). Wilhelmus takes care of the pharmacy and chemical division, while Antonius Johannes managed the trade in chemicals and scientific instruments. Throughout the years, the firm works together with several engineers, chemists and professors, among others Dr. W.J.H. Moll, F. Zernike, P. van Cittert, H.W.L. Brueckman and Dr. Van Heel. The company was successful, largely because of the presence of the Polytechnische School in Delft (Delft University) and the international contacts both the two brothers and their father had. In 1887 J.W. Giltay, who had worked for the two brothers since 1881, took over the company and names it P.J. Kipp & Zonen J.W. Giltay opvolger. Giltay expands the company further and focuses mainly on the telephone and electronics. After Giltay, in 1912 O.A. Ankersmidt took over the company.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden, Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht, Nationaal Scheepvaartmuseum, Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum, Nationaal Baggermuseum in Sliedrecht and KNMI de Bilt.

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• Instrument maker 1864~ - 1887, Delft

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• See: Data sources by Petrus Jacobus Kipp

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Instrument maker from Amsterdam. Probably made cross staff's.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1750~ - 1775~

Occupation

• instrument maker 1750~ - 1775, Amsterdam

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

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Instrument maker who was active during the second half of the eighteenth century. Made a Hollandse Cirkel and an astrolabe.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden.

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• Instrument maker [1750..]

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Instrument maker who made a reflecting (sun) microscope and pumps for bloodletting (ca. 1742).

Residence

• Amsterdam 1742~

Occupation

• Instrument maker 1742~, Amsterdam

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

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Medical instrument maker from Rotterdam.

Residence

• Rotterdam 

Occupation

• Instrument maker [1725..], Rotterdam

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Instrument maker in Amsterdam, ca 1645-1658. Made coin weight boxes. Brother of Nicolaas Listingh. Lived at the ''t Heere-Logement' in Amsterdam.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden and Fries Museum Leeuwarden (coin weight boxes).

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• Instrument maker 1645~ - 1658~, Amsterdam

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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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Instrument maker in Amsterdam, ca 1800 - 1838. In Feb. 1811 he advertised as producer of balances, measures and weights. He lived at the Nieuwendijk near the Dam.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden and Fries museum Leeuwarden (measures and weights).

Residence

• Amsterdam 1800~ - 1838~

Occupation

• Instrument maker 1800~ - 1838~, Amsterdam

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Provenance

• Wittop Koning, D.A. en G.M.M. Houben. 2000 jaar gewichten in de Nederlanden (Lochem/Poperinge 1980).
• Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).

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Worked as watch maker in Delft around 1368. Was together with the watch makers and brothers John and William Uneman invited by King Edward III to practice their crafts during a year in England. They made and installed timepieces in Westminster Tower. Probably more a smith than actual instrument maker.

Residence

• Delft 1368~

Occupation

• Watch maker 1368~, Delft

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Provenance

• Wyn, Henrik van. Huiszittend Leven I, 5e stuk (Amsterdam 1807), 568.
• Britten, F.J. Old clocks and watches & their makers (London 1932).
• Morpurgo, E. Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970).

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Scientific instrument maker in Brugge (Petit rue de Marais) around 1820. Made barometers, thermometers, and perpetual calenders.

Residence

• Brugge 1820~

Occupation

• Instrument maker 1820~, Brugge

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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• publishing
• scientific instruments

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Publisher in Brussel, around 1890: 'A.N. Lebegue &C.' Published a terrestrial globe.

Residence

• Brussel 1890~

Occupation

• Publisher 1890~, Brussel

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Jacob van Laun and his brother Abraham continued the scientific-instrument making firm of their father Hartog van Laun, in 1815. They made thermometers, as well as a planetarium, tellurium and lunarium, and signed: 'A en J van Laun fecit Amst.', 'A & J van Laun te Amsterdam' and 'A & J van Laun'. After Jacob's death in 1832 the firm was continued by Abraham van Emden (a cousin of Jacob and a grandson of Hartog van Laun).

Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden (microscope and an armillary sphere of a celestial and terrestrial globe), Deutsches Museum Munich (several instruments).

Residence

• Amsterdam 1815 - 1832

Occupation

• scientific instrument maker and retailer 1815 - 1832, Amsterdam

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Provenance

• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J., 'Het planetarium, tellurium en lunarium van Hartog van Laun', in: Spiegel Historiael 11 (1976).
• Amsterdamsche almanak voor koophandel en zeevaart; uitgegeven door het bestuur van het Collegie Zeemanshoop (Amsterdam 1826, 1830, 1831).
• Krogt, P.C.J. van der., Advertenties voor kaarten, atlassen, globes e.d. in Amsterdamse kranten, 1621-1811 (Utrecht 1985).
• Hooijmaijer, Hans, Hartog Van Laun’s Orrery, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 106 (2010), 6-12. English translation of idem, Het planetarium van Hartog Van Laun, Studium, Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitsgeschiedenis 2 (2009), 214-222.

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Optician from Brussels (Passage du Prince 11). Made stereoscopes.

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• instrument maker 1844~, Brussel

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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Balance maker from Cologne. In 1577, he had moved to Antwerp. Between 1610 and 1696 he worked as an "ijkmeester" (person who determines and controls measurements) in the same city.

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• instrument maker 1596, Köln
• instrument maker 1577~, Antwerpen
• IJkmeester 1610 - 1619, Antwerpen

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

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Chart and globe maker from Arnhem. His father was a globe maker, his brother Hendrik an engraver. Around 1580 Langren moved to Amsterdam. In 1585 he started making globes and in 1608 he resided in Antwerp. Later, Langren lived in Brussels.

Collection: Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, National Maritime Museum, London, Museo Astronomico e Copernico, Rome.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1585~ - 1608~

Occupation

• instrument maker 1589~ - 1605, Amsterdam

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Provenance

• Krogt, P. van der., Globi Neerlandici: the production of globes in the Low Countries (Utrecht 1993).
• Vanpaemel, Geert, ‘Dubbelportret: Michiel-Florent Van Langren (ca. 1600-1675) als ingenieur en astronoom’, Studium 1 (2008) 13-31.

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• clocks
• scientific instruments

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Auwers was a clockmaker from Bergen op Zoom.

Residence

• Bergen op Zoom 1700~ - 1800~

Occupation

• clock maker , Bergen op Zoom

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• Morpurgo, E. Nederlandse klokken- en horlogesmakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970).

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In 1839, Bouvier obtained a patent for fifteen years for a hydrostatic pump. This patent was canceled in 1842.

Residence

• Brussel 1839~

Occupation

• Instrument maker 1839~, Brussel

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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• barometers
• scientific instruments

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Optician who worked in both Antwerp and Oostende. He also made a barometer and sometimes worked with his brother S. Brand.

Residence

• Antwerpen 1880~
• Oostende 1880~

Occupation

• opticien 1900~, Antwerpen
• opticien 1900~, Oostende

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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• barometers
• scientific instruments

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Optician from Brussels. Sometimes worked together with his brother G. Brand. Also made a barometer with thermometer and an inclonometer.

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• Instrument maker 1900~, Brussel

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• Archive Museum Boerhaave

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