Cornelius Vincks (1570 - )

Field(s) of interest: scientific instruments
Gender: male

Born: Antwerpen, ~1570


Biography:
Mathematical instrument maker, working in Antwerpen and Napels in the years 1599-1623. He made astrolabes, armillar spheres, sundials, cross staffs and astronomical compendia. Camillus Gonzaga, Count of Novellara was one of his clients (1600) .

Collection: British Museum London (two astrolabes); Museum of the History of Science, Oxford (an Armillary Sphere 1601).


Occupations:
Instrument maker: ~1599 - 1623 (Napoli)

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