BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments

Biography:
Bourjé worked as a professional "ijker" (inspector of weights and measures). In his spare time he designed, made and collected physical instruments. He was also a painter and astronomer. Bourjé designed several instruments for the purpose of "ijking" (gauging). Stimulated by his tutor, Johannes de Kanter calculated eclipses. For his calculations he received a silver medal from the "Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen". His gauging-instruments were sold in boxes called "Doosje van Bourjé" (Box of Bourjé). From 1828 on, his verification instruments were made by J.M. Kleman.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden.

Residence

• Middelburg 1800 - 1838

Occupation

• scientific instrument maker 1800~ - 1838, Middelburg

Education

N/A

Membership

• Natuurkundig Gezelschap - Middelburg
  member 1794

Provenance

• Meijer, A. Frappante gelijkenissen: Johan Pieter Bourjé, beoefenaar van kunst en wetenschap (Middelburg 1992).
• Bourjé, J.P., Algemeene en bijzondere omstandigheden der maan-eclips op donderdag den 11den july 1805 : berekend en ontworpen voor den Meridiaan van Amsterdam, uit de Nieuwe Ecliptische Tafelen van den Heer J. de Kanter Phil.Z. (~1810).
• Lobatto, R. 'Iets over P.J. Bourjé, in leven arrondissements-ijker der maten en gewichten, te Middelburg', in: Algemeene Konst- en Letterbode (1834), 179-184, 195-199, 210-212.
• Bourjé, J.P., Handleiding tot de verificatie der inhoudsmaten ('s Gravenhage 1828).
• Zuidervaart, H.J. Van 'konstgenoten' en hemelse fenomenen : Nederlandse sterrenkunde in de achttiende eeuw (Rotterdam 1999).
• Zuidervaart, H.J. ‘Het kistje van Bourjé (1826), succesvol getuigenis van een liefhebber die professional werd', in: Gewina 25, nr. 3 (2002), 154-159.
• Bourjé, J.P., Algemeene en bijzondere omstandigheden van de aanmerkelijke zonsverduistering op donderdag den 7 september 1820 (Middelburg 1819).

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• mathematics
• astronomy

Biography:
Abraham van Laun and his brother Jacob continued the instrument-making firm of their father Hartog van Laun, in 1815. They made thermometers, orreries, telluriums and lunariums, they 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 Abraham and Jacob, and a grandson of Hartog van Laun).

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

Residence

• Amsterdam 1802 - 1829

Occupation

• instrument maker and retailer 1815 - [..1829], Amsterdam

Education

N/A

Membership

• Wiskundig Genootschap onder de zinspreuk ‘Een onvermoeide Arbeid komt alles te boven’ - Amsterdam
  member 1802~

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.
• “Naamlijst der leden des genootschaps”, in: Wiskunstig mengelwerk (Amsterdam 1802).

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• meteorology

Biography:
After his studies at the HBS, Willem Olland worked for several instrument workshops in London, Paris and Berlin. In 1896 he took over his father's instrument-making business in Utrecht. He made mathematical, physical, and meteorological instruments, including barometers, barographs, compasses, and instruments for observing terrestrial magnetism. In 1906 he specialized in automatic balances / scales. In 1913 his brother Hendrik continued with the production of mathematical and physical instruments.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden (several instruments), Universiteitsmuseum, Utrecht, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum, Groningen, Nationaal Reddingmuseum, Den Helder, Marinemuseum, Den Helder, Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, De Bilt.

Residence

N/A

Occupation

• Instrument maker 1896, Utrecht

Education

N/A

Membership

• Koninklijk Instituut van Ingenieurs
  member 1887

Provenance

• Maritiem Digitaal

Publications

N/A

Wiki and VIAF

Wiki Data: Q65961051
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/284592143

BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments

Biography:
Van Huffel was founder of Nederlandsche Instrumentenfabriek (NIF) in Utrecht in1900. The factory made and retailed instruments. Made physical, medical, electro technical instruments. In 1913 the company was acquired by NIEAF.

Residence

• Utrecht 

Occupation

• Founder of Nederlandsche Instrumentenfabriek 1900, Utrecht

Education

N/A

Membership

• Nederlands Natuur- en Geneeskundig Congres
  member [..1890]

Provenance

• Ledenlijst Vereeniging het Nederl. Natuur- en Geneesk. Congres (1890).

Publications

N/A

Wiki and VIAF

Wiki Data: Q65961258
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/28480796

BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• mathematics
• physics
• optics

Biography:
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).

Residence

N/A

Occupation

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

Education

N/A

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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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• electricity

Biography:
English scientific instrument maker. In 1761 John Cuthbertson became an apprentice to instrument maker James Champneys, and moved with him to Amsterdam in 1768. The same year he married Champneys' daughter. In Amsterdam Cuthbertson had his workshop on several locations: first on the corner of the Kromme Ellenboogsteeg and the Beursstraat, then at the corner of St. Luciensteeg and the 'Meisjes Weeshuis', the corner of het Osjessluis and the Heiligeweg and on the Nieuwe Zijds Voorburgwal. In 1794, he returned to England, where he resided and worked at 53 / 54 Poland Street in London.
Cuthbertson had a large influence on the development of the study of electricity in The Netherlands and is the builder of the world's largest electrostatic generator, which was designed by Martinus van Marum. This machine is now in Teylers Museum, Haarlem. Cuthbertson also made several other mathematical, physical and optical instruments, such as air pumps, telescopes, microscopes, a pantograph and a thunder house ("donderhuisje"). Cuthbertson also made instruments for the physics department of the Felix Meritis Society.

Collections: Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Museum, Boerhaave Leiden, Universiteitsmuseum, Utrecht.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1768 - 1796

Occupation

• scientific instrumentmaker 1768 - 1794~, Amsterdam

Education

N/A

Membership

• Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen - Haarlem
  Member 1780
• Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen
  Ordinary member 1 May 1777; Contributing member 19 May 1777 

Provenance

• Rooseboom, M., Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
• Hackman, W.D., John and Jonathan Cuthbertson: the invention and development of the eighteenth century plate electrical machine (Leiden 1973).
• Claassen, R. & P. Wisse, Tweehonderd jaar Diligentia: 1793-1993 (Den Haag 1993), 71.
• Zuidervaart, H.J., '‘Meest alle van best mahoniehout vervaardigd’ Het natuurfilosofisch instrumentenkabinet van de Doopsgezinde Kweekschool te Amsterdam, 1761-1828', Gewina. Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek 29 (2006) 81-112. Herdrukt in: Doopsgezinde Bijdragen. Nieuwe reeks 34 (2008) 63-104.
• Turner, G.L'E., Van Marum's scientific instruments in Teyler's museum ; descriptive catalogue I-III (Leyden 1973)
• Wiechmann, A., 'Eene ongemeen Groote Electrizeer-Machine, 200 jaar geleden in 't werk gesteld', Teylers Museum magazijn 3, nr. 2 (1985), 1-4.
• Fournier, M., Early microscopes : a descriptive catalogue (Leiden 2003).
• Catalogus van Mathematische, Philosophische en Optische Instrumenten, welke gemaakt en verkogt worden bij John Cuthbertson [. .] te Amsterdam, bound behind: J. Cuthbertson, Algemeene Eigenschappen van de Electriciteit (Amsterdam, 1773).
• Cuthbertson, J. & J. Champneys, Beschryving van eenige der fraaiste electrische proeven... (Amsterdam 1770).
• Cuthbertson, J. & J. Champneys, Verzameling van eenige fraaie proeven, voor de tafellugtpomp (Amsterdam 1770).
• Morzer Bruyns, W.F.J. Schip Recht door Zee. (Amsterdam, 2003) 122, 126, 130.

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Wiki Data: Q2726098
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/100385348

BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: PhD Philosophy

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• philosophy

Biography:
Jan Paauw Jr. (c.1723-1803) was one of the most skillful Dutch instrument makers of his time, working in Leiden, Holland. He was the son of Jan Paauw Sr., who probably was also an instrument maker (there is one instrument known, signed 'Jan Paauw Sr.).
Paauw was highly educated. On 23 September 1738 the then 15-year old Jan Paauw matriculated at Leiden University. He worked already as in instrument maker in 1739 (an instrument bearing that date was in the instrument cabinet of the Mennonite Seminary in Amsterdam). Later he finished his education in 1762 with a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Franeker (promotor: A. Brugmans).
Paauw's instruments could be found in all significant Dutch cabinets of experimental philosophy. He constructed clocks, thermometers, pyrometers, pumps, and microscopes, and sold these instruments to the Universities of Leiden (1758), Utrecht (1761-1764) and Franeker, as well as to the Renswoude Foundation in The Hague (1756-1758), the Mennonite Seminary in Amsterdam (1763), and Teylers' Foundation in Haarlem.
Paauw made a variety of microscopes. Many of them were nearly identical copies of the "Single and Double Microscope" described in George Adams's Micrographia Illustrata of 1771.
In 1798 his name was inscribed again in the Leiden Album Studiosorum, probably to celebrate his 60th anniversary as a scientific instrument maker.
In 1800 Jan Paauw was appointed superintendent of the scientific instruments at the Leiden Theatrum Physicum. He died in 1803 in his house at the 'Nieuwe Rijn'. The inventory in Paauw's workshop was sold at auction in 1804. Several of these instruments were bought for the instrument cabinets of Harderwijk University and the Physics Society 'Diligentia' in The Hague.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden and Teylers Museum, Haarlem (burners, pyrometers, (mathematical) models, air pumps, microscopes, clocks and thermometers).

Residence

• Leiden 

Occupation

• scientific instrument maker 1739 - 1803, Leiden

Education

• student 1738 - Universiteit Leiden, Leiden
• PhD student 1762 - Universiteit Franeker, Franeker

Membership

• Kunstgenootschap ten zinspreuke voerende ‘Kunst wordt door arbeid verkregen’
  Honorary member, hoofdlid, since 26-09-1782 30-01-1782

Provenance

• Album Studiosorus academiae Lugduno, MDLXXV-MDCCCLXXV (23-09-1738 and 13-10-1798).
• Lulofs, J., Grond-beginselen der wynroey- en peil-kunde, ten dienste der landgenooten (Leiden 1764).
• Paauw, Jan, Beschryvinge van een microscoop : geschikt om allerleye soorten van voorwerpen, doorschynende of ondoorschynende, op de gemaklykste wyze met de noodige verlichting te beschouwen, het zy met eenvouwdige, of 't zaamgestelde vergroot-glazen (Leyden 1775).
• Ebeling, E., Naamlijst en korte beschrijving van wis- en natuurkundige werktuigen, bij één verzameld door den weledelen heer Mr. E. Ebeling (Amsterdam 1789).
• Naamlyst en korte beschryving van alle de wis- en natuurkundige werktuigen, behoorende aan de Stichting van wylen de hoog edele welgeboorene vrouwe, Vryvrouwe van Renswoude, in het Haagsche Burger-Weeshuis: zoo als dezelve bevonden zyn , na de voltooying van de nieuwe zaal, in het jaar 1801 ('s-Gravenhage 1802).
• Molhuysen, P.C., Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van de Leidsche Universiteit, vol. 6 ('s-Gravenhage 1923).
• Clay, R.S. and T.H. Court, The history of the microscope : compiled from original instruments and documents, up to the introduction of the achromatic microscope (London 1932).
• Kernkamp, G.W., Acta et decreta senatus, vol. 2 (Utrecht 1938).
• Veerman, K., Euclides' elementen en de modellen van Jan Paauw (1992).
• Bolle, B., Barometers in beeld (Lochem 1983).
• Rooseboom, M., Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
• Paauw, Jan, Catalogus van een zoo uitmuntend als fraai kabinet [van] natuur- wis - en sterrekundige werktuigen, […] alles nagelaaten door wijlen den heere Jan Paauw , (Leiden 1804).

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• navigating instruments

Biography:
Reynier van den Broek was a compass maker in the Lelietraat in Amsterdam, in 1705, when he became poorter (citizen).

Residence

• Amsterdam 

Occupation

• compass maker 

Education

N/A

Membership

• Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen
  Ordinary member 19 June 1777; Contributing member 6 July 1777; wanbetaling 1778 19-06-1777 - 1778

Provenance

• Kuile, S. ter and W.F.J. Morzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca.1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam, 1999), 52-53.

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• history

Biography:
Instrument maker from Amsterdam. Worked for the Admiralty of Amsterdam, the water board ("heemraadschap") of Watergraafsmeer and the admiralty of the West Indische Compagnie. In 1771 he described a scoop wheel he received a patent for.
His name was sometimes spelled as Hartsing. Hartsinck was also historiographer and wrote about Suriname.
Collection: Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht.

Residence

• Amsterdam 

Occupation

• historian and instrument maker  - [..1779], Amsterdam

Education

N/A

Membership

• Literair Genootschap 'Diligentia Omia'
  Member 1767 - 1771
• (Koninklijk) Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen
  Director 1770 - 1779
• Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen - HaarlemHaarlem
  Director 1774 - 1779
• Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen - Haarlem
  Visitor 04-10-1773

Provenance

• Beschrijving en afbeelding van een geoctroieerde scherpschijf voor allerhande watermolens (1771)
• Eijgenraam, M. Van Herlein tot Hartsinck : over slaven en marrons in Suriname in de achttiende eeuw (Warmond 1989).
• Beschryving van Guiana, of de Wilde Kust, in Zuid-America, betreffende de aardrykskunde en historie des lands ... de bezittingen der Spanjaarden, Franschen en Portugeezen en voornaamelyk de volkplantingen der Nederlanderen, als Essequebo, Demerary, Berbice, Suriname, en derzelver rivieren, met de noodige kaarten en afbeeldingen der forten : waarby komt eene verhandeling over den aart en de gewoontes der neger-slaaven (Amsterdam 1770).

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Wiki and VIAF

Wiki Data: Q52500090
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/79013682

BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• navigation
• cartography

Biography:
Gerard Hulst van Keulen was a publisher, chart maker and navigational instrument maker in the Nieuwebrugsteeg in Amsterdam. Son of Joannes van Keulen (2). He added his grandmothers name 'Hulst' to his family name. After the death of his father, in 1755, he, his brother Cornelis Buijs van Keulen, and their mother lead the publishing and instrument making firm 'In de Gekroonde Lootsman'. After Cornelis' death in 1779 the firm was split up, whereby his widow Buijs van Keulen continued the anchor foundry. The instrument making and publishing business remained in the hands of Gerard Hulst van Keulen until his death in 1801. In 1792 he received a patent from the States of Holland for a circular dividing engine. From 1787 until his death in 1801 he was a member of the commission for implementing modern methods of finding longitude at sea, and improving sea charts (the 'Commissie tot de zaaken het bepaalen der lengte op zee en de verbeetering der zeekaarten betreffende'). Hulst van Keulen made navigating instruments, including cross staffs, octants, sextants, reflecting circles, compasses, astronomical and and mathematical instruments. After his death, his widow Anna Hendrina Calkoen, continued the business under the name 'Wed. Gerard Hulst van Keulen'.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Universiteitsmuseum, Utrecht, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum, Groningen, Fries museum, Leeuwarden.

Residence

N/A

Occupation

• Instrument maker 1779 - 1801, Amsterdam
• book trader 1757 - 1801, Amsterdam
• kaartenmaker der O.I. Comp. 1757 - 1801

Education

N/A

Membership

• Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen
  Ordinary member 6 nov 1783; Contributing member 12 nov 1783 1783 - 1802
• Maatschappij van Verdiensten onder de Zinspreuk ‘Felix Meritis, departement Natuurkunde
  member 24-09-1784
• Wiskundig Genootschap onder de zinspreuk ‘Een onvermoeide Arbeid komt alles te boven’ - AmsterdamAmsterdam
  member 1788~
• Oeconomischen Tak - HaarlemAmsterdam
  gecommitteerde tot de commissie der Zeevaart-, Werktuig- en Scheikunde 1788~
• Vaderlandsch fonds ter Aanmoediging van 's Lands Zeedienst
  commissaris en mede-oprichter 1781 - 1801
• Commissie tot de Zaaken het bepalen der Lengte op Zee en de verbetering der Zeekaarten betreffende
  member 1787 - 1801

Provenance

• 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).
• Lalande, J.J. de 'Voyage de Hollande', Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France, Ms 2195, p. 73, 87-88.
• 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).
• Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden. (Leiden 1950).
• Vries, D. de (et al.), The Van Keulen cartography, Amsterdam 1680-1885. (Alphen a/d Rijn 2005).
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. Schip recht door zee : de octant in de Republiek in de achttiende eeuw. (Amsterdam 2003).
• “Naamlijst der heeren leden des genootschaps”, in: Kunst-oefeningen over verscheide nuttige onderwerpen (Amsterdam 1788).
• "Naamlijst der commissarissen van het Vaderlandsch Fonds ter aanmoediging van 's Lands zeedienst", in: G.M.W. Acda, Ph.M. Bosscher, N.D.B. Habermehl, H.E. Kuipers en G.J.A. Raven, Tot een rechtschapen en kloke zeeman toe te rusten (1785-1985). Tweehonderd jaar kweekschool voor de zeevaart en hogere zeevaartschool Amsterdam (Zutphen 1985) 209.
• Kuile, S. ter and W.F.J. Morzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca.1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam, 1999) 73.
• Morzer Bruyns, The Cross-Staff: History and Development of a Navigational Instrument. (Amsterdam/Zutphen, 1994)

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Wiki Data: Q30524289
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/61853258

BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• physics

Biography:
Scientific instrument maker and physics teacher in Haarlem. In about 1841 W.M. Logeman joined the Amsterdam instrument makers firm of his father. Since then the firm was called 'Logeman & Zoon'. Between 1841 and 1865 Logeman worked for the 'Physisch Kabinet' of Teylers Museum. In the 1850s Logeman enjoyed an international reputation as a maker of strong magnets. He used the method of the Haarlem lawyer and amateur-physician Pieter Elias. Logeman was an assistent of Van Breda and business companion of F.W. Funkler who took over his firm in 1860. Logeman was also the author of several textbooks on physics.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam (a trade label).

Residence

• Amsterdam 1835 - 1842
• Haarlem 1843 - 1866~

Occupation

• Physical instrument maker 1835 - 1842, Amsterdam
• physics teacher , Haarlem
• worked at physics cabinet 1841 - 1865 - Teylers Stichting, Haarlem
• Physical instrument maker [1843..], Haarlem

Education

N/A

Membership

• Wiskundig Genootschap onder de zinspreuk ‘Een onvermoeide Arbeid komt alles te boven’ - AmsterdamAmsterdam
  member 1853 - 1866~
• Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen
  member 1866~

Provenance

• Amsterdamsche almanak voor koophandel en zeevaart voor den jare 1826-1913, uitgegeven onder toezicht van het bestuur van college Zeemanshoop (Amsterdam 1935, 1838, 1839).
• Clercq, P. de., Nineteenth-century scientific instruments and their makers : papers presented at the fourth scientific instrument symposium, Amsterdam, 23-26 October 1984 (Leiden 1985).
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. 'Lijst van instrumenten in de verzameling van het Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum Amsterdam'. (Amsterdam 1971).
• 'Naamlijst' in: Wiskunstige opgaven met hare ontbindingen, uitgegeven door de leden van het wiskundig genootschap ‘Een onvermoeide arbeid komt alles te boven’ van 1860-1865 (Amsterdam 1866).
• Dijkstra, O.H., 'Willem Martinus Logeman, 1821-1894' Jaarboek Haerlem 1974-1975.
• Turner, G.L'E., The practice of science in the nineteenth century : teaching and research apparatus in the Teyler Museum (Haarlem 1996).

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Wiki Data: Q62506856
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/281194836

BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments

Biography:
Scientific instrument maker from Utrecht. Made a tantalus cup, a Leslie cube, a Dobereiners lamp, a balance, a prism, a photometer, a conductor, an inductor, a horseshoe magnet, an electromagnet, an electrolysis jar and a galvanizing tool. Worked for Natuurkundig Gezelschap Utrecht, first as a servant and later as an instrument maker (after the death of G. Munnich 1828).

Collection: Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht, Museum Boerhaave Leiden.

Residence

N/A

Occupation

• instrument maker 1822 - 1859, Utrecht

Education

N/A

Membership

• Natuurkundig Gezelschap - Utrecht
  servant and instrument maker 

Provenance

• Bos, H.J.M. Mechanical Instruments in the Utrecht University Museum (Utrecht 1968).

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• mathematics
• astronomy

Biography:
Astronomer and surveyor, father of instrument maker Dirk Klinkenberg jr. Personal astronomer of Prince William V. Provided an explanation how to measure the distance between the Earth and Sun, after observing the transit of Mercury across the Sun. Discovered unknown comets in the years 1743, 1748, 1757 and another in 1759.

Residence

• Haarlem 
• Leiden 
• Den Haag 

Occupation

• Clerk of the secretary of Holland 1755, Den Haag
• personal astronomer of Prince William V , Den Haag

Education

N/A

Membership

• Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen - Haarlem
  Member 1758
• Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte - Rotterdam
  Member 1769
• Académie Royale des Sciences
  correspondent 1753

Provenance

• J.J. de Lalande, Voyage de Hollande, Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France, Ms 2195, p. 42-43, 45, 70.
• L.T.G. Theunissen (et al), Een elektriserend geleerde : Martinus van Marum 1750-1837 (Haarlem 1987).
• http://www.historici.nl/retroboeken/vdaa/#source=aa__001biog12_01.xml&page=231&accessor=accessor_index&view=imagePane

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• physics
• mathematics

Biography:
Holst attended the HBS in Haarlem and, after receiving his diploma in 1903, worked in industry for two years. In 1905 he enrolled at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich to study mechanical engineering, switching to mathematics and physics the following year, he received his diploma of Geprüfter Fachlehrer in 1908 and remained at the ETH as assistant to H.F. Weber until 1910. In that year, he became an assistant of Kamerlingh Onnes at the Leiden Physics laboratory. Here Holst made the first measurements of the electrical resistance of metals at liquid-Helium temperatures and was thus intimately involved in the discovery of superconductivity. For his dissertation, Holst made measurements of the thermal properties of ammonia and methyl chloride, and for this work he received his doctorate from the ETH in 1914.
Having finished his education, Holst joined the Philips Gloeilampenfabriek in Eindhoven, where he founded the Physics laboratory, which quickly became the most important industrial research laboratory in the Netherlands. He published a series of articles on measurements of illumination, the properties of Tungsten, and gas discharges. More importantly, Holst surrounded himself with capable associates (e.g., H.B.G. Casimir), whom he led and inspired, and he had a keen sense of which scientific results were ready for practical application. The laboratory's studies of gas discharges, for instance, were inspired by Bohr's atomic theory, important studies were performed under Holst's direction on radio tubes, X-Ray tubes, and photocells. Holst's early ideas about radio as a means of communication were controversial, but he was strongly supported by the company's owner, Anton Philips. By the mid-1930s, Holst had put together a research group on the electrical and magnetic properties of solids to investigate the possibilities opened up by quantum theory. From 1929 to 1939, Holst served as honorary professor at Leiden.
Personally reserved, Holst was not a good public speaker or talented writer: his talent lay in inspiring others. He made sure that his staff maintained contacts with the foremost researchers in scientific fields, and encouraged them to publish in scientific journals and attend scientific conferences. Although Holst suffered increasingly from depression, he carried on at the Philips laboratory until 1946, when he retired, retaining his connection with Philips as an adviser until 1956. From 1946 to 1956 he also served as 'curator' (governor) of the Technical College in Delft. He was instrumental in the founding of the Netherlands' second technical college in Eindhoven in 1957.

Residence

• Waalre 

Occupation

N/A

Education

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Membership

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
  Member Afd. Natuurkunde 18-05-1926

Provenance

• Gaillard, P.J., ‘G. Holst’, Verslagen Natuurkunde 77 (1968), p. 122.
• Van Helden, Albert, 'Gilles Holst', in: History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, (1999) 471-472.
• Casimir, H.B.G., Jaarboek KNAW (1968/69),p. 225-230.

Publications

• On the measurement of very low temperatures. XXVI. The vapour-pressures of oxygen and nitrogen according to the pressure-measurements by v. Siemens and the temperature-determinations by Kamerlingh Onnes c.s Year: . Pages: 12. (PDF format)
  
• On the equation of state of water and of ammonia Year: . Pages: 7. (PDF format)
  
• Sparks in air of atmospheric pressure Year: . Pages: 2. (PDF format)
  

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BIO

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Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• meteorology
• politics

Biography:
Wealthy Maecenas of the arts and sciences. Owner of an impressive cabinet of experimental philosophy. Meteorological observer for the Natuur- en Geneeskundige Correspondentie Societeit and the Societas Meteorologicae Palatina. Founder of the Natuurkundig Gezelschap Middelburg (1780) and the Natuurkundig Genootschap der Dames (1785), as well as the Musaeum Medioburgense (1787). He ordered a large planetarium, which was built by Joseph van Eeckhout and Jona Francis Robert.

Collection: Zeeuws Archief, Middelburg (planetarium)

Residence

• Middelburg 

Occupation

• Maecenas of the arts and sciences 1779~ - 1790, Middelburg
• Representant of Willem V in Zeeland 1769 - 1779

Education

N/A

Membership

• Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen - Haarlem
  Director 1786 - 1790
• (Koninklijk) Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen
  Member and Director 27-09-1768 - 1790
• Natuurkundig Genootschap der Dames - Middelburg
  President and founder 1785
• Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen
  Ordinary member 4 nov 1784; Contributing member 29 nov 1784 1784 - 1790
• Natuurkundig Gezelschap - Middelburg
  President and founder 1781 - 1790
• Natuur- en Geneeskundige Correspondentie Societeit in de Vereenigde Nederlanden - ’s HageMiddelburg
  mecenas 1780
• Natuur- en Geneeskundige Correspondentie Societeit in de Vereenigde Nederlanden - ’s HageMiddelburg
  donor and correspondent for meteorology 1782
• Natuur- en Geneeskundige Correspondentie Societeit in de Vereenigde Nederlanden - ’s HageMiddelburg
  contributing member 1779

Provenance

• Zuidervaart, H.J., 'Mr. Johan Adriaen van de Perre (1738-1790): portret van een Zeeuws regent, mecenas en liefhebber van nuttige wetenschappen', Archief van het Koninklijk Zeeuwsch genootschap der wetenschappen 1983
• 'Naamlijst der H.H. Leden van de Algemeene Natuur en Geneeskundige Correspondentie-Societeit', in: Verhandelingen van de Natuur- en Geneeskundige Correspondentie-Societeit ('s Gravenhage 1783).
• Zuidervaart, H.J., ‘An Eighteenth-Century Medical-Meteorological Society in the Netherlands. An Investigation on Early Instrumentation, Organisation and Quantification of the Science of Weather’ in: British Journal for the History of Science 38 (2005) 379-410 en idem 39 (2006) 49-66.

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BIO

Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• globes

Biography:
Scientific instrument and globe maker in Amsterdam.Took over the globe-making factory of the widow of Leonard Valk at the end of the eighteenth century. Made terrestrial, and celestial globes, and armillary spheres. In 1802, 1821 and 1824 he made globes for Felix Meritis.

Collection Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, Maritiem Museum, Rotterdam.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1800 - 1825

Occupation

• instrument maker 1800 - 1825, Amsterdam

Education

N/A

Membership

• Maatschappij van Verdiensten onder de Zinspreuk ‘Felix Meritis, departement Natuurkunde
  Member 1789
• Maatschappij van Verdiensten onder de Zinspreuk ‘Felix Meritis’
  Temporary supervisor of the observatory 1823-03 - 1823-12

Provenance

• mentioned in: Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, Archief Felix Meritis 59.260-263.
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. 'Lijst van instrumenten in de verzameling van het Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum Amsterdam'. (Amsterdam 1971), 41-42.
• Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici: Bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands up to 1880, vol. 2 (Amsterdam 1970), 51-86.
• Krogt, P. van der Old globes in The Netherlands. (Utrecht 1984), 220-254.
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. 'Alphabetical list of Dutch instrument makers compiled by W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns'. (Amsterdam 1986).
• Zuidervaart, H.J. & R.H. van Gent, Between Rhetoric an Reality: instrumental practices at the Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory of the Amsterdam Society ‘Felix Meritis’, 1789-1889 (Hilversum 2013).

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Dissertation: N/A

Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments
• optical instruments

Biography:
Optical instrument maker in Amsterdam, who in 1762, was the first in the Dutch Republic to make an achromatic telescope, according to a design by the Amsterdam brass caster and optical engineer Carl Ulrich Bley (d.1771). Two years later, they managed to improve the design. After Bley's death Van Deijl was advised in optical matters by the philosopher Frans Hemsterhuis (1721-1790) in The Hague. In later years Van Deijl worked closely together with his son Harmanus, their telescopes are signed '& Zoon'. They invented a new type of winged, in 1784. The Van Deijl firm made at least one binocular achromatic telescope (now in Teylers Museum).

Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Universiteitsmuseum, Utrecht, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Marinemuseum, Den Helder, Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes, The Hague.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1762 - 1794

Occupation

• optical instrument maker 1762 - 1794, Amsterdam

Education

N/A

Membership

• Maatschappij van Verdiensten onder de Zinspreuk ‘Felix Meritis, departement Natuurkunde
  member 05-11-1787

Provenance

• Zuylen, J. van, 'Jan en Hermanus van Deijl: een optische werkplaats in de achttiende eeuw', Tijdschrift voor de geschiedenis der geneeskunde, natuurwetenschappen, wiskunde en techniek 10:4 (1987), 208-228.
• 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), 317.
• Roosenboom, M. 'Die Holländischen Optiker Jan und Harmanus van Deijl und ihre Mikroskope', Janus 44 (1940), 185–197.
• Mensert, W., Verhandeling aangaande de uitvinding, het gebruik en het misbruik der brillen, benevens algemeene aanwijzingen, om eenen bril te kiezen en wat men vooral bij het gebruik van dezelve heeft in acht te nemen (Amsterdam 1831), 41-43.
• Cittert, P.H. van 'Achromatische microscopen', De natuur: populair geïllustreerd maandschrift, gewijd aan de natuurkundige wetenschappen en hare toepassingen 49 (1929), 109-111.
• Fournier, M. Early microscopes : a descriptive catalogue (Leiden 2003).
• [Ebeling, E.], Naamlijst en korte beschrijving van wis- en natuurkundige werktuigen, bij één verzameld door mr. E. Ebeling (Amsterdam 1789), 74
• 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.
• Zeischka, Siger, Minerva in de polder: waterstaat en techniek in het hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland (1500-1856), (Hilversum 2007)
• Deijl, Jan van, [en zoon], Kort en eenvoudig bericht aan het publiek, weegens het voorgevallene aan 'slands houtzaagmoolen de Groote otter, aangaande de nieuw geinventeerde moolenwieken . (Amsterdam: G. Bom, 1784)
• Aeneae, Henricus, Verhandeling over de molenwieken in het algemeen; en over die [...] volgens de uitvinding van Jan van Deijl en zoon te Amsterdam, in het bijzonder, (Amsterdam: W. Holtrop, 1785)
• Database Maritiem Digitaal

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Highest degree: N/A

Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments

Biography:
Instrument maker who was one of the founders of the Vereeniging ter Beoefening van de Natuurkunde in Nijmegen. He was also an 'amanuensis' (technical assistent) of the society and made its instruments, in close cooperation with physicist P. van den Burg. In January 1860 he become an 'amanuensis' at the Physical Cabinet of Utrecht University. On July 1, 1889, on the age of 73, he was honourably dismissed.

Residence

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Occupation

• instrument maker and amanuensis 1840
• amanuensis 1860 - 1889, Utrecht

Education

N/A

Membership

• Vereeniging ter Beoefening van de NatuurkundeNijmegen
  member and co-fouder 1840

Provenance

• H.C.J. Oomen, Oude en nieuwe natuurkunde in Nijmegen : Johannes Jelis van Dreeven, instrumentmaker in Nijmegen, honderd jaar geleden (Nijmegen 1962).

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Fields of interest:

• scientific instruments

Biography:
Seumoy was physical instrument maker in Brussel, in the eighteenth century. Naturaliste. Regularly worked for the Count of Lorraine.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden (microscope).

Residence

N/A

Occupation

• Instrument maker 1749 - 1754, Brussel

Education

N/A

Membership

• Sociéte Litéraire de Bruxelles
  Member 01-02-1769 - 1770

Provenance

• Fournier, M. Early microscopes; A Descriptive Catalogue (Leiden 2003).

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Highest degree: doctor

Fields of interest:

• chemistry
• scientific instruments
• physics

Biography:
In 1788 the Medical Doctor Van Stipriaan Luïscius was a lecturer of chemistry (1789) in Delft. He won various scientific competitions. He was the inventor and maker of a kind of bathometer (depth gange). In 1805 he published a description of that instrument.

Collections: Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht (wine ganging rod and a bathometer (depth gange), Museum Boerhaave Leiden (two portrets and a prize medal).

Residence

• Delft 1788 - 1814~

Occupation

• Doctor Medicinae 1788, Delft
• Lecturer chemistry 1789 - Universiteit Leiden, Delft
• inventor of scientific instruments 1800~, Delft

Education

• Student of Medicine 1784 - 1788 - Universiteit Leiden, Leiden

Membership

• Koninklijk Instituut, eerste klasse
  Member 11-05-1819
• Koninklijk Instituut, eerste klasse
  Correspondent, living in the Netherlands 11-03-1809
• Departementale Commissie van Geneeskundig Onderzoek en Toevoorzigt in Holland, te Den Haag
  Member 1806
• Académie Nationale de MédicineParis
  Correspondent 
• Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte - Rotterdam
  Member 
• (Koninklijk) Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen
  Member 
• Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen - HaarlemHaarlem
  Member 
• Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en WetenschappenUtrecht
  Member 
• Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde - Leiden
  Member 
• Gezelschap ter Beoeffening der proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte in ’s Hage
  extraordinary honorary member (physics department) 1809~ - 1824~

Provenance

• Stipriaan Luïscius, A. van, Algemene Vergadering Instituut 1829, p. 22-23 door J. Teissedre L’Ange; Verslagen Instituut Klasse I, 1829, p. 6-8 door H.C. Boon van der Mesch.
• Rooseboom, M., Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
• Stipriaan Luïscius, A. van, Description d'une sonde de mer ou bathomètre, qui pourra servir à sonder toutes les profondeurs des mers, précédée d'un coup d'oeil géologique sur la terre (La Haye 1805).
• Doorman, G. , Octrooien voor uitvindingen in de Nederlanden uit de 16e-18e eeuw ('s-Gravenhage 1940).
• Stipriaan Luïscius, A. van, Kort vertoog over de noodzakelijkheid en de mogelijkheid om de verspreiding der kinderziekte aanmerkelijk te verminderen, en de besmetting daarvan krachtdadiger en zekerder te beletten : eene bijdrage tot de geneeskundige staatsregeling (Delft 1826).
• Naamlijst der leden van de Maatschappij voor natuur- en letterkunde (Den Haag 1809).
• Naamlijst der leden van de Maatschappij voor natuur- en letterkunde (Den Haag 1814).
• Naamlijst der leden van de Maatschappij voor natuur- en letterkunde (Den Haag 1824).

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