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• navigating instruments

Biography:
Pieter Willemsz. in Hoorn, was a box maker who provided cross-staffs to the VOC, in 1620.

Collection: No work by him is on record.

Residence

• Hoorn 1620

Occupation

• Coffin maker (and possibly instrument maker) 1620~, Hoorn

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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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• navigating instruments

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Cornelis de Bree de Oude was a compass maker opposite the Haringpakkerstoren, in 'Het Oude Cromhout' in Amsterdam, in 1672. He was the father of Cornelis de Bree de Jonge, he was still alive in 1729 and then named as a sail maker.

Collection: No work by him is on record.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1672

Occupation

• compass maker 1672, Amsterdam

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Provenance

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

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An early eighteenth century compass rose by Jan Breem Burgh of Edam, is preserved, it was repaired by compass maker Jacob de Jong in Amsterdam.

Collection: Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam.

Residence

• Edam 1700 - 1750

Occupation

• instrument maker 1700~ - 1750~, Edam

Education

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Provenance

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

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• navigating instruments

Biography:
Smeding was compass maker in Enkhuizen and Rotterdam. One preserved compass is dated 1906, another is signed 'F. Smeding, Enkhuizen', perhaps a different maker. In 1941 the firm was liquidated by his widow.

Collections: Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, Fries Scheepvaart Museum, Sneek (two compasses).

Residence

• Enkhuizen 
• Rotterdam 

Occupation

• Instrument and compass maker  - [..1941]

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Provenance

• Fries Scheepvaart Museum: Gids.
• Maritiem Digitaal

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• navigating instruments

Biography:
Wiggert Coerten was a cross-staff maker on the Brouwersgracht in Amsterdam, in 1658.

Collection: No examples of his work are on record.

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Occupation

• instrument maker 1650~ - 1700~, Amsterdam

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Provenance

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

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• navigating instruments
• compasses

Biography:
Johannes van Goenendaal was a compass maker in Rotterdam between about 1672 and 1702, he worked with compass maker Pieter de Velder, also in Rotterdam.

Collection: Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam (a hanging compass, made between 1690 and 1700, signed 'Pieter De Velder tot Rotterdam' en 'Joannes Van Groenendaal tot Rotterdam').

Residence

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Occupation

• instrument maker 1700~, Rotterdam
• compass maker , Rotterdam

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Provenance

• Gemeentearchief Rotterdam, brief nr. 50167.
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. 'Lijst van instrumenten in de verzameling van het Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum Amsterdam'. (Amsterdam 1971).
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. 'Alphabetical list of Dutch instrument makers compiled by W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns'. (Amsterdam 1986).
• Database Maritiem Digitaal

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• navigating instruments

Biography:
Salomon Bos was a compass maker on the Buitenkant in Amsterdam, in 1775, and from 1787-1799 on the Waal near the Kraansluis. After 1799 he was associated with his brother Jan Bos, who was also a compass maker.

Collection: No work by him is on record.

Residence

• Amsterdam 1775~ - 1800~

Occupation

• compass maker 1775~ - 1800, Amsterdam

Education

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Provenance

• Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden. (Leiden 1950).
• Kuile, S. ter and W.F.J. Morzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca.1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam, 1999), 51.

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• navigating instruments

Biography:
The widow Helena Geertruijda Krap-Arbon was the brother of Johannes George Arbon, a prominent teacher of navigation in Rotterdam. In 1832, after the death of her husband, she continued the retail of navigating instruments in Rotterdam. First she associated with a certain 'Van den Brink', later (from 1851 onwards) she worked together with her son-in-law Joost van Duijm, who had married her daughter Henriette Cornelia Krap. In 1855, two months after the widow's death, his brother Aart van Duijm married the other daughter Anna Maria Krap, after which date he probably joined the firm, which then was continued under the name: 'Weduwe A.H. Krap & Van Duijm'. In 1858, they sold nautical instruments, charts and navigation manuals.

A marine telescope signed 'Krap & Van den Brink', (wrongly dated 1808-1814) has been preserved.

Collection: Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam.

Residence

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Occupation

• Retailer of navigating instruments 1824~ - 1855, Rotterdam
• publisher 1824~ - 1855, Rotterdam

Education

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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).
• Bierens de Haan, D. Bibliographie néerlandaise historique-scientifique des ouvrages importants dont les auteurs sont nés aux 16e, 17e et 18e siècle, sur les sciences mathématiques et physiques, avec leurs applications. (Nieuwkoop 1965), 2e fotomech. herdr. van de uitg. Rome 1883.
• advertisment in: Sweijs' Nederlandse vloot en rederijen. (Rotterdam 1867 and 1869).
• Kaiser, F. Rapport aan Zijne Excellentie den Minister van Marine, over het zoogenaamd Pelorus-kompas : uitgebragt door den verificateur van 's Rijks Zee-Instrumenten. (1858).
• Database Maritiem Digitaal

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• navigating instruments

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Jacob de Jong was a compass maker in the Oude Teertuinen near the Oudezijds Kapel no.13, in Amsterdam, from 1816-1866. In 1835 he took over the firm of the Widow of Willem Bruyn and continued as 'Jb de Jong & Bruyn', at the same address until about 1866.

Collections: Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen, Fries Scheepvaart Museum, Sneek.

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Occupation

• instrument maker 1816~ - 1866, Amsterdam
• compass maker 1816~ - 1866, Amsterdam

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Provenance

• Kuile, S. ter and W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca.1580-ca.1850. (Amsterdam 1999), 78-79.
• Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. 'Alphabetical list of Dutch instrument makers compiled by W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns'. (Amsterdam 1986).
• Database Maritiem Digitaal

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• navigating instruments

Biography:
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

Biography:
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.

Residence

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Occupation

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

Education

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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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Biography:
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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Occupation

• compass maker 1800 - 1823, Amsterdam

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Provenance

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

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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

Education

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Provenance

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

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• 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

Education

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Provenance

• 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

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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

Education

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Membership

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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

Membership

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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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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

Education

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Membership

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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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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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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

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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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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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