Gerard Brandt (1594 - 1659)

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

Born: Middelburg, 1594
Died: Amsterdam, 1659

Biography:
Gerard Brandt was a watch, clock, and sundial maker on the Rokin in Amsterdam, in the first half of the seventeenth century. He was an acquaintance of Descartes; the two worked together to improve a timepiece. A pocket sundial by Brandt dated 1634 is preserved.

Collection: Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum, Groningen.


Occupations:
timepiece maker (Amsterdam)

Sources:
Morpurgo, E., Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970), 18.

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

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