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- Boerhaave (instrumentenmakers)
- Genootschaps-lid
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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
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- instrument maker 1800 - 1825, Amsterdam
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- 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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Scientific instrument maker from Argentan, France, who had a workshop in Amsterdam. In 1735 he was granted a patent from the States of Holland for the construction of globes and armillary spheres (terrestrial and celestial) with integrated clockwork. In 1736 he presented his work in a publication, called Beschrijving over de beweegbare globes (Amsterdam 1736). Audebert married Johanna van Grol on 25 August 1709 in the Walloon Church in Amsterdam.
Collection: Victoria & Albert Museum, London (watch)
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- Amsterdam [..1735] - 1763
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- instrument maker 1734 - 1763, Amsterdam
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- Britten, F.J., Old clocks and watches & their makers (London 1932), 694.
- Rooseboom, M., Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
- Beschrijving over de beweegbaare globes, die gemaakt en verkogt worden met previlegie door Denys Audebert, horlogiemaaker op het Rokin over de Gapersteeg t' Amsterdam (Amsterdam 1736).
- [Ebeling, E.], Naamlijst en korte beschrijving van wis- en natuurkundige werktuigen, bij één verzameld door mr. E. Ebeling (Amsterdam 1789).
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- Valk, G.
- Valck, Gerard
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Gerard Valck was globe maker, author and publisher in Amsterdam, from about 1680. During his apprenticeship he spent some years in London. Valck was apprenticed to Abraham Bloteling (his brother-in-law). He was the father of Leonhard Valk.
Collections: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Universiteitsmuseum, Utrecht (globes), Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam (globes).
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- globe maker 1700~, Amsterdam
- publisher , Amsterdam
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- G.Valk, en L. Zumbach de Koesfeld. 't Werkstellige der sterre-konst, zoo na de eerste, als de tweede beweeging: mitsgaders van de toestand des aard-kloots, in 't gebruyk van der zelver hemel en aard-globen; beneffens de bysondere nieuwen planeten-wyzer. Vertoont door een liefhebber dezer konsten; En zyn door Gerard Valk op 't koper gebragt en gesneden. (Amsterdam ~1700).
- Bierens de Haan, D. Bibliographie Neerlandaise Historiuque-Scientifique. (Rome, 1883)
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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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N/AProvenance
- 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).