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Jacob Vasterick was a master compass maker in Amsterdam, a son of Jan Janse Vasterick, and brother of Jan Vasterick. In 1705 father and sons received a patent from the States-General for a pump and a bearing compass.

Collection: No work by him is on record.

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• Kuile, S. ter and W.F.J. Morzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca.1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam, 1999) 104.

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• navigating instruments

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Rasmus Dekker was a scientific instrument and compass maker on the Waal in Amsterdam, in 1777, and a teacher of navigation. He was married, first to Anna Elisabeth Brugger, and then - in 1777- to Stijntje Westerman, with whom he procured two children, baptised Lutheran in 1779 and 1785.
Between 1793-1815 he designed a number of navigating instruments. An azimuth compass by him is preserved.

Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Occupation

• Scientific instrument and compass maker, and teacher of navigation 1777 - 1815, Amsterdam

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Provenance

• Kuile, S. ter and W.F.J. Morzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca.1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam, 1999).
• Davids, C.A. Zeewezen en wetenschap: De wetenschap en de ontwikkeling van de navigatietechniek in Nederland tussen 1585 en 1815. (Amsterdam/Dieren, 1986)

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• navigating instruments

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Frans Meyjes Jeremiasz. was a compass maker at the Haringpakkerij in Amsterdam from about 1800-1823. He became a member of the compass makers guild in 1802, and poorter (citizen) in 1803. Several of his (hanging) compasses have been preserved.

Collections: Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen, Hidde Nijland Museum, Hindelopen, Handels- og Sjofartmuseum Kronborg, Helsingor, Denmark.

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• compass maker 1800 - 1823, Amsterdam

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• Kuile, S. ter and W.F.J. Morzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca.1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam, 1999) 90.

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• navigating instruments

Biography:
Sybrand Witteveen (ca.1769-after 1813), from the town of Lemmer, was a compass maker at the Haringpakkerij in Amsterdam, in 1794. One hanging compass by him, dated 1793, is preserved.

Collection: National Museum of American History, Washington, DC.

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Occupation

• compass maker 1793 - 1800~, Amsterdam

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• Kuile, S. ter and W.F.J. Morzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam, 1999), 109.

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• meteorological instruments

Biography:
"Mr. Weerglasmaker" and retailer of scientific instruments, who settled in Leiden in 1779. Former apprentice of Joseph Tessa. In May 1779 he settled with "J. Meysingh, Mr. Rijglijfmaker in de Diefsteeg, op de hoek van de Lange Brug".

Residence

• Leiden 1779

Occupation

• Meteorological instrument maker 1779, Leiden

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Provenance

• Advertisement in Leydse Courant, 28 April 1779

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• nautical instruments

Biography:
Joost van Breen (d. 1679) was 'Equipage ende Amonutie-meester' (administrator of goods, supplies and ammunition) of the Zeeland Admirality. Later he also was appointed examiner of the pilots of the Zeeland branch of the VOC (The Dutch East India Company). In 1660 he invented the spiegelboog (mirror-bow), a reflecting cross staff. This instrument was used for approximately 100 years in the Zeeland Chamber of the VOC. Towards the end of his life Van Breen moved to The Hague, where he had a career as an author of plays.

Inventor of the 'Spiegelboog'.

Residence

• Middelburg  - 1661~

Occupation

• equipage-meester (master of equipments)  - 1661~, Middelburg
• examiner of the pilots of the Zeeland department of the United East India Company  - Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, Middelburg

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Provenance

• Rijks, Marlise, The correspondence of Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop (1610-1682) (The Hague 2012)
• Breen, Joos van , Stiermans gemack. Ofte een korte Beschrijvinge vande Konst der Stierlieden (Den Haag 1662). On the title page Van Breen calls himself ‘Liefhebber der Vrye Konsten’ (lover of the arts).
• Hilster, Nicolas de, ‘The Spiegelboog (mirror-staff): a reconstruction’ , Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society No. 90 (2006), 6-15.
• Davids, C.A., Zeewezen en wetenschap: de wetenschap en de ontwikkeling van de navigatietechniek in Nederland tussen 1585 en 1815 (Amsterdam 1985).

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BIO

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Fields of interest:

• mathematics
• surveying
• navigation
• navigating instruments

Biography:
Klaas (or Claes) Jansz Vooght was a prominent mathematical practitioner. On 3 April 1662 he was admitted as surveyor by the Council of Holland and from about 1675 onward he was active as an instructor of navigation at Amsterdam. He was the author of a large number of works of navigation, including 'De dopgudze, ofte Een klare uytbreydingh des zons verscheynsichts' (Amsterdam 1676). He also published a translation of Euclid (1695) and a set of trigonometric tables. He designed a 'Quadrans Astromomicus', published in 1681. He contributed a translation of a Latin poem by Jeremiah Horrox to Dirck Rembrantsz entitled 'By-voeghsel op de Nederduytse Astronomia en sonne stilstant' (Amsterdam 1677), together with some poetry of his own. Moreover, in Dirck Rembrantsz' 'Antwoort op den brief van Jacobus Coccaeus' (Amsterdam 1661) there is a poem signed C. I. V.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave (copy of 'Antwoort op den brief van Jacobus Coccaeus' has a note in a seventeenth-century hand, which explains: 'C. I. Vooght, Geometra').

Residence

• Amsterdam 

Occupation

• surveyor in Holland 03-04-1662
• instructor of navigation 1675, Amsterdam
• instrument maker 1680~, Amsterdam

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• De dopgudze, ofte Een klare uytbreydingh des zons verscheynsichts, waar in gethoont wort, hoedanigh des zons verscheynsicht uyt de spiegelingh des zons en der vaste starren kan nagespeurt worden. Tot nader openingh eens boeksken, genaemt Toets- of proefsteen van Christiaen Martini Alhaltin Senior (Amsterdam 1676).
• Translation of Euclid: http://books.google.nl/books?id=lQsOAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Claas+Jansz+Vooght%22&hl=en&ei=d5uWTu2XB8-eOuOtmfMB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false (last seen: 15-01-2013).
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. The cross-staff : history and development of a navigational instrument (Amsterdam/Zutphen 1994).

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• navigating instruments

Biography:
Evert Apegendam was a cross-staff maker in Amsterdam, in 1730,when he became poorter (citizen).

Collection: No example of his work is on record..

Residence

• Amsterdam 1730

Occupation

• nautical instrument maker 1730~, Amsterdam

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Provenance

• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. The Cross-staff: history and development of a navigational instrument. (Amsterdam 1994), 89.

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Jacob us van Wijk was a mathematical and navigational instrument maker in Amsterdam. He was a son of watch maker Jacobus van Wijk (1706 - 1766) and brother of scientific instrument maker Jan (Johannes) van Wijk (1732 - 1795), both in Amsterdam. From 1761 until 1770 Van Wijk was a pupil at the 'Fundatie van Renswoude' in The Hague. In 1757 he purchased a house in the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam, and in 1767 became poorter (citizen). From 1773-1777 Jacobus lived at the same address as scientific instrument maker John Cuthbertson.

Collections: Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, Sjofartsmuseet i Goteborg, Sweden.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1770~ - 1790

Occupation

• nautical instrument maker 1750~ - 1790, Amsterdam

Education

• student 1761 - 1770 - Fundatie van de Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude van Renswoude - Den Haag, Den Haag

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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).
• De fundatien der Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude, gevestigd te Utrecht, Delft en 's-Gravenhage 1756-1856. (Delft 1856).
• Nierop, L van. 'Naamregister van alle de voornaamste winkeliers der stad Amsterdam (1767)', (1932).
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. Schip recht door zee : de octant in de Republiek in de achttiende eeuw. (Amsterdam 2003).
• Kuile, S. ter and W.F.J. Morzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca.1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam, 1999).

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• navigating instruments

Biography:
Johannes Warmelo was a cross-staff maker in the Utrechtsestraat in Amsterdam, in 1742.

Collection: No example of his work is on record.

Residence

• Amsterdam 

Occupation

• cross-staff maker 1742~, Amsterdam

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Provenance

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

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compass maker in Rotterdam, between 1751-1760.

Residence

• Rotterdam 1750

Occupation

• compass maker 1751 - 1760, Rotterdam

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• mentioned in the notarial archive of Gemeentearchief Rotterdam as instrument and/or compass maker between 1751 and 1760.

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Nautical instrument maker in Harlingen. In 1796 he owned a compass-making company, together with Keimpe Zeilmaker.

Residence

• Harlingen 1796

Occupation

• nautical instrument maker 1796~, Harlingen

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Provenance

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

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• mathematic instruments
• navigation

Biography:
Dirk van den Bosch was a mathematic and nautical instrument maker in Rotterdam, in the first half of the nineteenth century. His trade label was signed: 'Mathematische Instrumentmaker, op de Leuven Haven over de Leuvenbrug, oostzyde, te Rotterdam'. Another trade label depicts a sextant and an azimuth compass. A wooden measuring rod by Van den Bosch was made around 1850 for G.A. Escher, a civil engineer who just graduated from Delft University.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden (wooden measuring rod), Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (rulers).

Residence

• Rotterdam 1821 - 1863

Occupation

• mathematical instrument maker 1821 - 1863, Rotterdam

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Provenance

• Mörzer Buryns, W.F.J. 'Lijst van instrument in de verzameling van het Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum te Amsterdam'. (Amsterdam 1971), 37.
• Kramm, Christiaan, De levens en werken der Hollandsche en Vlaamsche kunstschilders, beeldhouwers, graveurs en bouwmeesters, van den vroegsten tot op onzen tijd (Amsterdam 1857-1864)

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BIO

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• navigating instruments

Biography:
Leendert Valk I was a compass and sail maker on the Fransepad in Amsterdam, in 1708, he became poorter (citizen) in 1712. His address in 1742 was in the Houttuinen. Leendert was the grandfather of compass and sail maker Leendert Valk II in Amsterdam (1804-1806).

Collection: No work by him is on record.

Residence

• Amsterdam  - 1754

Occupation

• compass maker 1754~, Amsterdam

Education

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Provenance

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

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• mathematic instruments

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A brass parallel rule signed Jan van den Burgh, and dated 1690, is preserved, he may have been the maker or the owner.

Collection: Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Occupation

• instrument maker 1690~

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Provenance

• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. 'Lijst van instrumenten in de verzameling van het Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum Amsterdam'. (Amsterdam 1971), 34-35.
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. 'Alphabetical list of Dutch instrument makers compiles by W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns'. (Amsterdam 1986).
• Database Maritiem Digitaal

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• navigating instruments

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Pieter van der Camp was a compass maker on the Nieuwe Waalseiland in Amsterdam, in 1693, he became poorter (citizen) in 1695. He was the father of compass maker Albert Pietersz. van der Camp.

Collection: No work by him is on record.

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Occupation

• instrument maker 1693~ - 1715, Amsterdam

Education

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Provenance

• Kuile, S. ter, and W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca.1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam 1999), 55.

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• mathematical instruments

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Mathematical instrument maker at the Rapenburg in Leiden in the second half of the seventeenth century. At the time of his marriage in 1655 to Marya van Deyl, widow of Cornelis van Duyn, De Steur was registered as a 'mathematisch instrumentmaecker'. At the baptism in 1656 of their daughter Elisabeth, the instrument maker Henricus Sneeuwins acted as a witness. In 1659 Coenrad van Lin became an apprentice of De Steur. In 1660 the Leiden professor in mathematics Frans van Schooten recommended him to Christiaan Huygens. In 1672 De Steur remarried to Anna Annocque. They lived at Rapenburg 69. She remarried in 1681.

Collections: Petrus van Musschenbroek had an astrolabe made by De Steur. Museum Boerhaave Leiden (sundial, pantograph, sector and Holland circle), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm

Residence

• Leiden 1621~ - 1681

Occupation

• Mathematical instrument maker 1655~ - 1681, Leiden

Education

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Provenance

• 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).
• Drecker, J., Gnomone und Sonnenuhren (Aachen 1909).
• Daumas, M., Scientific instruments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and their makers (London 1972).
• Zinner, E., Deutsche und Niederländische astronomische Instrumente des 11.-18. Jahrhunderts (München 1972).
• Huygens, Chr. Œvres Complètes.

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• navigating instruments

Biography:
Marius Cornets de Groot was a retailer of navigating instruments, including sextants and compasses, in Rotterdam. He continued the firm of J.A. Seckel en Zonen, also in Rotterdam, makers and retailers of chronometers.

Collections: Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam, Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum, Groningen.

Residence

• Rotterdam 

Occupation

• retailer of scientific instruments [..1922], Rotterdam

Education

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Provenance

• Database Maritiem Digitaal

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• navigating instruments

Biography:
Harmen Grootenhoff was a cross-staff maker on the Zeedijk in Amsterdam, in 1690.

Collection: No examples of his work are on record.

Residence

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Occupation

• instrument maker 1690~, Amsterdam

Education

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Provenance

• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. The cross-staff: history and development of a navigational instrument. (Amsterdam/Zutphen 1994), 90.
• Koggenland 2008/4, genealogisch tijdschrift voor de afdeling Oostelijk West-Friesland van de Nederlandse Genealogische Vereniging. URL: http://www.ngv.nl/wwwOWF/afdelingsbladen/Koggenland2008_4.pdf

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BIO

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Fields of interest:

• surgical instruments

Biography:
surgical instrument maker around 1811. Probably he worked in Marken and Amsterdam. Overdijk made knives and other surgical instruments.

Residence

• Marken 
• Amsterdam 

Occupation

• surgical instrument maker 1811~, Amsterdam

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Provenance

• Etat nom. d. Coutelliers A’dam 1811: Dirk Overdijk, Marken

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