Important note: Most of these instruments are not in the Adler collection (which you can find more information about here). We know nothing about them beyond the information returned by searching this database. You may be able to learn more by contacting the institutions in the "Instruments" column, or by consulting the "References" listed.
Your search for signatures starting with B yielded 1651 entries. Displaying entries 1–1651.| Signature | Maker Info | Instruments | Comments | Location | References | Suggest Correction |
| B. 1 | 1673, MIM | Folding Rule, wood, 1673 = OXF. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| B. 2 | 1770, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1770 = Evans Coll.? | Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
| B. 3 | MIM | Diptych Sundials = D.(1965), ADL-W195. | they have fleur-de-lys marks. | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| B. 4 | Germany, c.1780, MIM | Compass Sundials = D.(1980), OXF, ADL-W182, Christie-G. 5/13/86, Peron et Corsy in Melun, 6/10/79, etc. | the "B" is punched on the hour-scale; we agree with Moskowitz who suggests that these sundials were made by David Beringer on the basis of the sundial in WHI, which is identical except that it is signed "David Beringer"; see also "D.B." | Nürnberg. | Evans 1; Moskowitz 132; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| B. 5 | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Diptych Sundial, wood and ivory = D.(1978). | decorated with three-leaf clovers; "B" stamped in compass box. | Moskowitz 116. | suggest correction | |
| B. 6 | c.1740, MIM | Sandglass = AMST. | signed on top. | Mörzer Bruyns 1. | suggest correction | |
| B.A. 1 | Germany, 1561, MIM | Astrolabe, 1561 = BASH (lost). | ICA-3013. | Zinner 1; ICA 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| B.A. 2 | Germany, c.1550, MIM SIM | Surveying Quadrant = BM-97/1/12-1. | see Bartholomew, Abbot; see P. Ildephonsus Mahrer. | Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction | |
| B.A.D. | see D.H.S. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| B.A.M. | Germany, 1719, MIM | Ring Sundial, 1719 = Evans Coll. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
| B.B. 1 | France, 1655, MIM | made portable sundials. | Blois. | Gunther 2; Hamilton 1. | suggest correction | |
| B.B. 2 | Germany, c.1750, MIM | made sundials. | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | ||
| B.B.C. | Holland, c.1700, MIM | Perpetual Calendar = Soth. 12/12/55. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| B.B.G. | Holland, c.1590, MIM | Sundial with Quadrant = Hamilton Coll. | Hamilton 2. | suggest correction | ||
| B.C. | MIM | Sandglass, double = NMM-H.12. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | ||
| B.D.G. | France, 1595, MIM SIM | Radio Latino, 1595 = Roussel-9 = NMM; Rule, gilt-brass = MADEX-457. | rule is ex-Strauss Coll. | Michel 3; Price 2. | suggest correction | |
| B.E. | Germany, | Zinner said to see "C. Fredensburg", but there is no such entry. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| B.F. | Germany, 1600, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1600 = DRE. | Zinner 1; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| B.H. 1 | Austria, fl.1583-84, MIM | Astrolabe, 1583 = POB; Nocturnal with Vertical Sundial, 1584 = POB. | nocturnal is MADEX-222; astrolabe is ICA-3019. | Vienna. | Zinner 1; Michel 1; MADEX; Price 2; M.J. Hagen; ICA 2. | suggest correction |
| B.H. 2 | England, c.1750, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial = Soth. 11/27/72 = D.(1974). | owner?; initials in flowing script. | Wynter and Turner; Wynter 1. | suggest correction | |
| B.H. 3 | punchmark on Barent Hendricke compass dial at NOR. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| B.K. | Germany, 1569, MIM | Artillery Level, 1569 = ADL-M203. | the initials are punched in a shield with crossed swords between, one of the sword points ends in a cross. | Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| B.M. | 1772?, OIM | Martin-type Barrel Microscope = Soth. 4/28/69. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| B.P. 1 | 1601, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, stone, 1601 = X. | Brieux 2. | suggest correction | ||
| B.P. 2 | Germany, late 18th Century, MIM | Diptych Sundials, wood and paper = EMA, PTA, REG, STS, WAI, and ZIT. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| B.R.H. | "B." over "R.H."; marked on a silver quadrant by Richard Blaxam at the BM. | Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction | |||
| B.S. | Germany, 1562, MIM | Sundial inside bottom plate of round table clock, 1562 = PIC. | also marked "C.S." (2) inside lid. | Pippa. | suggest correction | |
| B.T. | MIM | Astrological Instrument = NAC. | Nachet; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| B.V. | Italy, MIM | Dividers, in the shape of a stiletto = FLO-2515. | also marked "Volentieri"; Benvenuto della Vulparia? | Bonelli 1; Maccagni 1. | suggest correction | |
| BA. H.F. C. | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Horizontal Sundial = WUR. | Würzburg. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| BAADEN, FR. LIBE RATUS CARL. AUG. | misreading for Fr. Karl Liberatus of Augsburg and Baden. | Soth. 5/12/75. | suggest correction | |||
| BAAK, TOBIAS | Scotland, 1695, MIM | Wall Dial, 1695 = Kirkgate, Alloa. | also Bachup; master mason; architect. | Gatty. | suggest correction | |
| BAARDA, JOHANNES VAN | Holland, b.1742-c.1810, MIM | also made clocks. | The Hague. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| BAARDA, PETRUS JOHANNES VAN | Holland, 1744-1800?, | ivory turner; pupil at "Fundatie van de Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude." | The Hague. | Rooseboom 1; Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| BABBAGE, CHARLES | England, 1792-1871, MIM | Calculating Machine = Dudley Observatory, Albany, N.Y. | invented a calculator; F.R.S. in 1816. | 5 Devonshire Place, Portland Place (1815-27); 1 Dorset Street, Manchester Square (1828-71); both in London. | Taylor 2(1265); DNB; DSB; RSW; etc. | suggest correction |
| BABBITT, H.M. | USA, 1846, MIM | Micrometer, 1846 = Fair of American Institute. | Providence, R.I. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BABINEN, GEBHART | see Baeinen. | Price 2. | suggest correction | |||
| BABKOV AND ARCHIPOV | Russia, fl.1770-80, OIM | Telescope, large = GEL. | worked in instrument shop attached to the Academy of Arts. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BACCI, GIACOMO | Italy, 17th Century, OIM | made lorgnettes. | Venice. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| BACELLI, ABBE L. | Italy, c.1780, | invented a vacuum pump made by Arleri; Abbé L. Bacelli. | Italian Inventory. | suggest correction | ||
| BACH, L. | Germany, 19th Century, OIM | Telescope, three-inch = Wellesley College Observatory, Mass. | "Optiker." | Munich. | USNM. | suggest correction |
| BACHARD DE SARON, J.B. GASPARD | France, 1730-94, MIM | copied Ramsden's dividing engine, 1775. | A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | ||
| BACHELER | France, c.1625, MIM | Sundial in lid of watch = Soth. 3/18/74. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BACHELIER, DANIEL | Germany, 1700, MIM | Astronomical Clock, 1700 = DRE-C80. | Berlin. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| BACHMAYER, JOAN GEORG | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, stone = ING. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BACHMAYR, GEORG JOSEF | Germany, 1750, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1750 = WUR. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BACHUP | see Tobias Baak. | suggest correction | ||||
| BACKER, JAN | Johan Bacher van Call? | suggest correction | ||||
| BACKER, MORTIMER DE | Holland, 1657, PHIM | Money Scales and Weights, 1657 = FIT-135. | Amsterdam. | Price 2. | suggest correction | |
| BACKWELL | England, c.1780, PHIM | Stick Barometer = K. and C. 7/9/75. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BACKWELL, WILLIAM 1 | England, fl.1780-1818, MIM | compass and drawing instrument maker. | 6 Tash Street, Grays Inn Lane, London. | Taylor 2(794); Dewhirst; Crawforth 11. | suggest correction | |
| BACKWELL, WILLIAM 2 | England, fl.1818-20, OIM | son of William Backwell 1. | 6 Long Lane, Smithfield, London. | Taylor 2(1266). | suggest correction | |
| BADDELY, J. | England, c.1800, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | Surveying Level = OXF; Telescope, stand = D.; Stick Barometer = Soth.-Chester 9/8/81. | possibly Bradderley, which see. | Albrighton. | Taylor 2(1075a); Daumas 1; Coffeen II; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BADDELY, JOHN | England, c.1800, OIM PHIM | Telescope = Soth. 2/28/80; Stick Barometer = Soth.-C 9/8/81. | Albrighton. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BADGER, JOSEPH | USA, 1784, MIM | Orrery, 1784 = X. | New Haven, Conn. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BADOLLET, J.J. | Switzerland?, c.1815, MIM | Sundial in pocket watch = MERC-9 = WHI. | Hamilton thought he was G.G. Badollet and French. | Geneva? | Bryden 16; Hamilton 1. | suggest correction |
| BADSEY, JOHN | England, c.1738, | apprenticed to John Urings 1 or 2 in the Joiners' Company on July 4, 1738. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BAEINEN, GEBHART VON | Germany, 1558, MIM | Horary Quadrant, 1558 = VIE-F1346. | Zinner 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BAGATELLE | France, c.1750, | inventor or maker. | Paris. | Hamilton 2. | suggest correction | |
| BAHARIE, A. | England, c.1840, NIM | Sextants = NMM, Soth. 11/9/59-176. | may be one instrument. | Sunderland. | Taylor 2(2067); NMM 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BAIJENS | see Bayens. | Daumas 1; Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BAIJER, JOSEPHUS | see Josephus Bayer. | suggest correction | ||||
| BAILEY 1 | England, c.1791, MIM | NMM 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BAILEY 2 | England, 19th Century, MIM | Magnetic Compass = Melun 4/24/83. | Birmingham. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAILEY, CHARLES | England, c.1778, | apprenticed to Charles Lincoln, an OIM in the Spectaclemakers' Company, on June 11, 1778. | Court and von Rohr 3(211). | suggest correction | ||
| BAILEY, J.W. | England, fl.1850-62, MIM NIM SIM | Sextant, case = P.C. | sextant signed "Bailey Fenchurch Street, London"; exhibited at the 1862 Exhibition. | 162 Fenchurch Street, London. | USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BAILEY, JOHN 1 | England?; USA, fl.1775-78+, MIM SIM | made surveying instruments; Crawforth questioned his English origin. | New York, N.Y.; Fishkill, N. Y. (1778). | Bedini 1 and 8; Crawforth 11. | suggest correction | |
| BAILEY, JOHN 2 | USA, 1731-1823, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass, 1804 = NYS. | signed "J. Bailey, Hanover, Mass."; mechanic; clockmaker. | Hanover (1804); Lynn; both in Mass. | Bedini 1; Smart 1. | suggest correction |
| BAILEY, JOHN ALYESWORTH | USA?, f.1850-84, MIM | Burt's Solar Compass and Level = N.Y. Exhib. of the Industry of All Nations, 1853. | advertised as manufacturer of Burt's Solar Compass, etc.; partner with William Burt as Burt and Bailey, 1853-56; brass founder. | Detroit, Mich. | Smart 1; USNM; Elgin. | suggest correction |
| BAILEY, R. | England, OIM | Reflecting Telescope = Soth. 3/21/73. | Bristol. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAILEY, S. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Newcastle-upon-Tyne. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BAILEY, T. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Stanion. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BAILI 1 | France, 1663, OIM | made telescopes. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Clay and Court. | suggest correction | |
| BAILI 2 | see Bayley 1. | Dewhirst; Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BAILLE | see Bayley 2. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BAILLE AINE ET NEVEU | France, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Bretaudiere et Raynaud, Chalon-sur-Saône 6/23/79. | Baille Aîné et Neveu. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAILLIE, WILLIAM | Scotland, 1833, PHIM | spirit hyrometer maker. | 19 Saltmarket, Glasgow (1833). | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | |
| BAILLON, FRANCISCUS | see Francus Baillou. | Engelmann 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BAILLON, PIERRE | Italy, | see Pierre Baillou. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BAILLOU, FRANCUS DE | Italy, fl.1738-64, OIM | Telescope, 1738 = ADL-M431; Objective Lens, 1764 = FLO-3340; Microscope, 1755 = NAC. | "Francus de Baillou S.C.R. Majestatis Opticus fecit Mediolani anno 1755" on microscope. | Milan. | Evans 1; Bonelli 1; Nachet; Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BAILLOU, PIERRE | Italy, c.1721, MIM NIM SIM | Plane Table Compass = X; Octant = NMM; Mining Compass, 1721 = P.C. | Milan. | Bryden 9; NMM 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAILLY, ROBERTUS DE | France, fl.1525-30, MIM | Terrestrial Globes, = X (1530), Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. | Bailly was an engraver and metal worker; the two globes listed may be the same one. | Tooley; Yonge. | suggest correction | |
| BAILY, JOEL | USA, 1732-97, MIM SIM | Levels = Mason and Dixon (1767); Surveyor's Compass, 1765 = X. | worked as a surveyor and instrument maker for Mason and Dixon, 1764-68. | West Bradford, Chester County, Pa. | Bedini 8. | suggest correction |
| BAIN AND AINSLEY | England, NIM | Course Correcter = ADL-A120. | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BAIN, ALEXANDER | Scotland; England, 1810-77, MIM | apprenticed to a clockmaker in Wick; in 1827 he went to London where he was a journeyman. | Wick; London (1827). | Taylor 2(1769). | suggest correction | |
| BAINBRIDGE, WILLIAM | OIM | Telescope = Philadelphia Maritime Museum, Pa. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BAINS, ROBERT RAINS | England, fl.1816-19, NIM | invented a perpetual log. | Myton, Kingston-on-Hull. | Taylor 2(1269). | suggest correction | |
| BAIRD AND TATLOCK | England, PHIM | Balances = Christie 2/13/68, K. and C. 10/8/75, 7/14/76. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAIRD AND TAYLOR | misreading for Baird and Tatlock. | suggest correction | ||||
| BAKER 1 | England, c.1830, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Folding Rule = DRE; Dumpy Level = AUI; Theodolite = Soth. 10/22/76; Sextant, pocket = Melun 4/24/83; Set of Drawing Instruments, rosewood case = Bearnes 12/6/71; Microscope = FLO-2651. | other microscopes appear at auction; surely Charles Baker, which see. | 244 High Holborn, London. | Moskowitz 108; Bonelli 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BAKER 2 | England, c.1835?, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Shrewsbury. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BAKER 3 | England, fl.1809-11, PHIM | partner with John Frodsham. | London. | Goodison 1; Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
| BAKER 4 | England, c.1880, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, mahogany case = WHI. | Bryden 16. | suggest correction | ||
| BAKER AND HOOPER | USA, fl.1822-40, MIM NIM | Tell-Tale Compass, 1840 = D.(1976); Plotting Graphometer = D.(1993). | David Baker and Hooper; Thomas Wightman engraved the compass cards. | No. 54 Ann-Street, (on the Draw-Bridgw), Boston, Mass. | D.J. Warner 10 and 12; Moskowitz; Coffeen 41. | suggest correction |
| BAKER, CARVER AND MORRELL | USA, c.1900, NIM | Marine Compass = PMS. | Portland, Maine. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAKER, CHARLES | England, c.1850, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | Microscopes = Christie 12/18/74, Christie-SK 12/1/83, Phillips 5/20/75, 2/14/79, 4/20/83; Stick Barometer = D.(1975); Odometers = Phillips 2/2/84, Christie-SK 12/1/83; Meridian Transit = Keighley Art Gallery and Museum. | most instruments signed "C. Baker." | 244 High Holborn, London. | Stevens and Aked; USNM; Moskowitz 108; RSW; Coffeen A. | suggest correction |
| BAKER, D. | England, c.1830, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-Bill. 4/21/93. | Billingshurst. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAKER, DAVID | USA, b.c.1792-1856, NIM | the Whaleman's List showed he was a dealer in nautical instruments; see Baker and Hooper. | New Bedford, Mass. | Moskowitz, 1976; D.J. Warner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BAKER, EDWARD | England, c.1779, MIM | grand-nephew of Benjamin Cole 2 and brother-in-law of John Newton; drawing instrument maker; ensign in the Militia, 1779. | London. | Millburn 11. | suggest correction | |
| BAKER, HENRY | England, fl.1848-58, OIM PHIM | optician; made barometers and thermometers; had a display in the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. | 90 Hatton Garden, London. | Goodison 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; Bonelli 1; Moskowitz 109. | suggest correction | |
| BAKER, RICHARD | England, c.1806, MIM | apprenticed to Joseph Fairey of the Grocers' Company on March 6, 1806. | J. Brown 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BAKER, ROBERT 1 | England, fl.1685-1712, MIM | diallist; author; probably the designer of the "Celestial Hemisphere." | The Windmill, without Temple Bar (pre-1706); the Union Coffee House, over against the Royal Exchange; both in London. | Taylor 1(439); Dawson 216, 1971. | suggest correction | |
| BAKER, ROBERT 2 | England, OIM | Nachet thought that he might have been the first maker of a reflecting microscope; doctor. | Nachet. | suggest correction | ||
| BAKER, WILLIAM 1 | England, c.1680, MIM | Burford or Oxford. | Dewhirst; Taylor 1(416); Evans 1; Gunther 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BAKER, WILLIAM 2 | England, c.1748, MIM | apprenticed to Edmund Blow in the Joiners' Company on July 4, 1738; turned over to Thomas Cole, leatherseller, March 6,1738; turned over to Richard Hut in the Clothworkers' Company on Oct. 20, 1740; free in the Joiners' Company, Aug. 2, 1748. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BAKER, WILLIAM 3 | USA, fl.1850-54, MIM NIM OIM | New York, N.Y. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| BAKEWELL, R. | England, 18th Century, MIM | Sectors = UTR (wood), DEU (ivory). | London. | Daumas 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAKEWELL, RICHARD | England, fl.1797-1826, MIM SIM | made mining compasses, rules of ivory and boxwood, surveying tapes; succeeded by Isaac Trow. | Loveday Street, Birmingham. | Bryden 9; Taylor 2(1477); RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAKKER, CLAES | Holland, c.1650, MIM | Astrolabe and Sundial on watch case = Michel Coll. | Groningen. | Michel 1. | suggest correction | |
| BALBRECK | France, MIM SIM | Wye Level = Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. | Paris. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BALBRECK FILS AINE | France, MIM PHIM | Orographe Schrader = CNAM. | Balbreck fils aîné; surveying instrument to draw elevation and location of mountains. | Paris. | Delehar 8. | suggest correction |
| BALCH, JOHN | USA, c.1800, MIM | Almanac, rotating, 1800-1900 = D.(1995). | Mass. | Coffeen 51. | suggest correction | |
| BALCH, THOMAS H. | USA, fl.1771-1817, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass = Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.; Surveying Compasses, wood = PEA, P.C., D.(1978). | Essex Institute and PEA instruments may be only one. | at the Sign of the Mariner's Compass, State Street, Newburyport, Mass. | Smart 1; Brewington 1; USNM; Warner 12; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BALDANTONI, A. | Italy, c.1700, MIM NIM SIM | Cross-staff = KEN; Alidade = X. | Ancona. | Daumas 1; Holbrook; Price 2; Evans 1; Hamilton 2; USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BALDANTONI, GIUSEPPE | Italy, 1784-1873, MIM | Ancona; Firenze (1861). | Brenni 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BALDANTONI, GIUSEPPE, E FIGLIO | Italy, c.1861, MIM | Magnetic Compass = X. | Ancona. | Brenni 1. | suggest correction | |
| BALDEN, JOSEPH | England, -1817, PHIM | see Beach and Balden. | Birmingham. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
| BALDOCK, RICHARD | England, c.1721, MIM | apprenticed to William Roberts 1 in the Broderers' Company on Nov. 8, 1705; free in the Company, Dec. 6, 1721. | Next the Three Tuns in Shoe Lane, London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| BALDWEIN AND BUCHER | Germany, fl.1561-68, MIM | Orrery Clocks = DRE, KAS. | Eberhard Baldwein and Hans Bucher. | Marburg. | Zinner 1; Gunther 1; Baillie 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BALDWEIN AND DIEPEL | Germany, fl.1561-63, MIM | Astrolabe Clock, 1561-63 = KAS. | Eberhard Baldwein and Hermann Diepel. | Marburg; Giessen. | Lübke. | suggest correction |
| BALDWEIN, EBERHARD | Germany, fl.1558-81, MIM | Quadrant, wood = lost; Armillary Sphere = KAS; Azimuth Quadrants = KAS, lost (1569); Celestial Globe = P.C. | "mechanicus." | Kassel; Marburg. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction |
| BALDWIN, JEDEDIAH | USA, fl.1790-1811, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass, wood = P.C. (1960). | Hanover, New Hampshire. | Bedini 1; Smart 1; A.L. King; Price 2; DATM. | suggest correction | |
| BALDWIN, THOMAS | England, post-1713, MIM | George Dennis was turned over to Thomas Baldwin as an apprentice, after 1713; Baldwin may have been a member of the Clockmakers' Company. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BALDWIN, WILLIAM | England, c.1655, | apprenticed to John Brown 6 in the Joiners' Company, 1655. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BALE 1 | England, fl.1814-15, MIM | see Mitchell and Bale. | Taylor 2(1389). | suggest correction | ||
| BALE 2 | England, c.1845, MIM | Celestial Globes = X (1845), Phillips 12/2/87 (1845), Soth. 5/21/73 (1846); Terrestrial Globe, miniature = D.(1971). | Soth. globe is five-inch diameter; see Bale and Woodward. | Tooley; Moskowitz 102; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BALE AND WOODWARD | England, c.1845, MIM | Celestial Globe = Melun 4/24/83. | see Bale 2. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BALE, THOMAS 1 | England, c.1704, MIM | apprenticed to William Bennett of the Clockmakers' Company; free of the Company on Oct. 2, 1704. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BALE, THOMAS 2 | England, PHIM | Marine Barometer = X. | Bristol. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BALEATO | Spain, NIM | Azimuth Compasses = MAN-I78 and -I90; Sextant = MAN-I123. | Ferrol. | Garcia 1. | suggest correction | |
| BALERNA | Scotland, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 2/28/80. | probably Domenico Balerno. | Dundee. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BALERNA, D. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2). | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BALERNA, L. | England, fl.1841-53?, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, Phillips 11/26/83, Soth.-Chester 6/20/85. | Halifax. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BALERNO, DOMENICO | Scotland, fl.1846-53, PHIM | barometer maker. | 14 Yeaman Shore, Dundee. | Bryden 3; Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BALES | see Bale | suggest correction | ||||
| BALIE | see Bayley 2. | Dewhirst. | suggest correction | |||
| BALL, JONATHAN | USA, 1835, NIM | patent for mariner's compass, 1835; example at D. with glass bowl and compass card signed "Hooker New York", surely William Hooker. | Buffalo, N.Y.; Newry, Me. | USNM; Bedini 8; Coffeen Comm.; Warner 12; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BALL, THOMAS | England, c.1724, MIM | apprenticed to Nathaniel Smith of the Clockmakers' Company on Dec. 31, 1711; free of the Company, July 6, 1724. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BALLARA | misreading for Ballard 1. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BALLARD 1 | England, c.1820, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, Soth.-S 10/19/89. | Cranbrook. | Goodison 1; Baillie 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BALLARD 2 | England, fl.1826-28?, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Lamberhurst. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BALLARD, SAMUEL | USA, 1718-93, MIM | Boston, Mass. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BALLARD, T. | England, c.1805?, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | London? | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BALLARINI, PETER | England, 1801-58, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | in partnership with Austin Cattaneo and others, pre-1838; barometer signed "P. Ballarini York." | Kings Staith, York. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BALLESTEROS, MANUEL DE | Spain, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial = KEN-1938-369. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BALLESTEROS, PEDRO | Spain, 1829, | Sundial, 1829 = Man-I149. | invented by the Marques de Feria. | Madrid. | Garcia 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BALLESTRE | Spain, PHIM | Balance, steel = Soth. 4/22/65-41. | Madrid. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BALLOCK, PHIL. | England, MIM | Sundial, portable = Col. Baldwin (1890). | Gatty. | suggest correction | ||
| BALSARY, G., AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = Soth.-C 10/9/86, New House 9/10/93. | New House barometer signed "Balsary and Co.". | London. | ATG 8/28/93; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BALTHASER, JOHANN | Germany, 18th Century, OIM | Microscope = WHI. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BALTUS, MARQUART | see Marquart, Baltus. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BALTZER | see Baltzer Cambon. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BALY | see Bayley 2. | Dewhirst. | suggest correction | |||
| BAMASCONI, FRANCIS | misreading for Francis Barnasconi, which see. | Taylor 2(1771). | suggest correction | |||
| BAMBER | NIM | Rolling Rule = Versailles 4/17/83. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BAMBER, JAMES | Ireland, c.1820, NIM OIM | invented an improved ship's log; may be Bamber, which see. | Ballymoney. | Taylor 2(1479). | suggest correction | |
| BAMBLER, P. MAURUS | Germany, MIM | Reichenbach. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BAMMAN, JOHANNES | Germany, fl.1484-91, MIM | Astrolabes = Schweinfurt Museum (1484), KRE (1487). | KRE is ICA-604, other is ICA-633; also see "H.B. 1." | Smalkaldens. | Zinner 1; Price 1; ICA 2. | suggest correction |
| BANCE | England, c.1797?, PHIM | Wheel Barometer in bookcase = J. McGarva Coll. = Soth. 11/15/63. | Hungerford. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BANCE AINE | France, MIM | Diptych Sundial, wood = Soth. 10/21/74. | Bance Aîné. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BANCKS 1 | see Robert Bancks 2. | suggest correction | ||||
| BANCKS 2 | England, fl.1820-27, MIM OIM PHIM | son of Robert Bancks 2; referred to as Banks, Jr.; made instruments for Dr. Brewster; see Bancks and Son. | 119 New Bond Street (1820-27), London. | Taylor 2(921). | suggest correction | |
| BANCKS AND SON | England, fl.1810-34, MIM OIM PHIM | Rule, ivory = BM-1918/7/12-19; Wheel Barometers = X(2); Spyglass = Soth. 12/15/78. | Robert Bancks 2 and a son; "Instrument makers and Opticians to His Majesty." | 119 New Bond Street, London (1820-27). | Taylor 2(921); Goodison 1; Price 3; Ward 4; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BANCKS, ANTHONY OLDISS | England, fl.1792-96, MIM OIM | older brother of Robert Bancks 2; apprenticed to John Kitchingman in the Turners' Company, Aug. 3, 1780; free by patrimony in the Joiners' Company on Aug. 7, 1792; took apprentices; optician. | 25 Piccadilly, Strand (1794); 440 Strand (1796); both in London. | Crawforth 7; Clifton 1. | suggest correction | |
| BANCKS, ROBERT 1 | England, fl.1765-pre-1792, | apprenticed to William Murry in the Joiners' Company, 1755; turned over to Philip Jones, member of Framework Knitters' Company in 1757; free in the Joiners' Company, 1765; may have been the father of Anthony Oldiss Bancks and Robert Bancks 2. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BANCKS, ROBERT 2 | England, fl.1803-38, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | wide range of instruments that may be seen in many museums, including ADL; barometers, microscopes, telescopes, sextants, pantographs, sundials, etc. | freed by Patrimony in the Joiners' Company, Nov. 5, 1803; instruments are signed "Bancks" or "Banks", all with same address; some may be by his son; T.C.; "Optical and Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales"; "Instrument Maker to His Majesty"; Royal appointment to George IV (1820) and to William IV later. | 440 Strand ; 441 Strand; 440-1 Strand; New Bond Street (1820); all in London. | Taylor 2(921); Goodison 1; Moskowitz 110; Wynter and Turner; Wynter 1; ADL; Clay and Court; Evans 1; Bonelli 1; Calvert 2; Crawforth 1 & 7; Coffeen 12; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BANDERMAN, W. | Germany, MIM | Inclinometer = Soth. 11/9/59-179. | Berlin. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BANFIELD | England, PHIM | Balance = K. and C. 12/3/75. | Brighton. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BANG, T.A. | Denmark, c.1812, NIM | Marine Compass = Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Conn. | Kiopenhavn; enlarged copy of compass card used as table top. | Copenhagen. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BANGS, NIELS ROHR | Denmark, c.1830, NIM | Azimuth Compass = OMM. | Copenhagen. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BANIDE | France, c.1775, OIM | made optical instruments for Rochon. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BANKEL | Germany, c.1780, PHIM | Money Balance = DRE. | may be misreading for James Bankes, which see. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BANKES 1 | England, MIM SIM | Theodolite = Phillips 2/2/84. | surely misreading for Robert Bancks 2, which see. | 441 Strand, London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BANKES 2 | see Banks. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BANKES, JAMES | England, PHIM | made folding balances. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | ||
| BANKS | see Bancks. | Engelmann 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BANKS AND HATCH | USA, fl.1841-44, MIM NIM | mathematical instrument makers, 1841; dealers in mathematical and nautical instruments, 1844; see Edward Prince Banks. | Sign of the Quadrant and Watch, No. 6 Exchange Street (1841); 72 Exchange Street (1844)' both in Portland, Me.. | Portland, Me. Business Directories; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BANKS, EDWARD PRINCE | USA, 1811-92 fl.1834-37, MIM NIM | T.C.; see Banks and Hatch. | two doors below Merchants Bank, Exchange Street (1834); No. 6 Exchange Street (1837); both in Portland, Me. | Smart 1; Moskowitz 102; Portland, Me, Business Directories; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BANKS, JOHN | c.1900, | Water Clock, 1682 = X, | made by Pearson-Page Co. of Birmingham in the 20th Century. | Britten 1; Darius 1. | suggest correction | |
| BANKS, JOSEPH | England, c.1830, MIM | Terrestrial Globe = Maritime Museum, Horten, Norway. | Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. | Fleet Street, London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BANKS, JR. | England, | son of Robert Bancks; mentioned as maker by Brewster; see Bancks 2 and Bancks and Son. | Clay and Court. | suggest correction | ||
| BANKS, ROBERT | England, | see Robert Bancks. | Taylor 2(921); Clay and Court; Moskowitz 110. | suggest correction | ||
| BANKS, WILLIAM | England, c.1734, MIM | apprenticed to Fisher Combs of the Clockmakers' Company on Oct. 7, 1734. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BANNISTER, H. | England, c.1790, PHIM | Angle Barometer = P.C. | stolen. | Lichfield. | ATG 5/8/93. | suggest correction |
| BANNISTER, JAMES | England, c.1751, | apprenticed to John Sudlow of the Grocers' Company on Aug. 1, 1751. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BANYARD, THOMAS | England, c.1683, | apprenticed to Joseph Wells in the Joiners' Company, Nov. 6, 1683. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BARABAN | France, c.1850, MIM SIM | succeeded by C. Dupressoir, which see; also succeeded by L. Thomas | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARADELLE 1 | France, 1702, MIM | Sundial, octagonal, gilt-brass, 1702 = Soth. 5/10/54. | may be misreading of date. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARADELLE 2 | France, fl.1752-1814, MIM NIM SIM | made sundials including Butterfield-type, inclining and other horizontal types; made circumferentors, globes, sectors and other drawing instruments, etc.; examples may be seen in many museums including ADL; ADL-N6, ADL-W41, ADL-W67; and octant, 1752 at PMM. | could be either Jean-Louis-Jacques Baradelle or his son, Nicolas-Eloi Baradelle; see entries for them; Daumas thought that most of the undated sundials were by Jean-Louis-Jacques Baradelle. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Hamilton 1 and 2; Weil (2)29; NMM 2; USNM; ADL; Price 3; Ward 4; Wynter 1; Nachet; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARADELLE FILS | France, 1749-1808, | Sundial = Prince de Conti Coll. (18th Century). | catalogue of instruments, 1778; see Nicolas-Eloi Baradelle. | Quai de l'Horloge du Palais, au Quartier Anglais, Paris. | Brieux 2; Nachet; Augarde; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARADELLE JUNIOR | France, MIM SIM | Rule, ebony and ivory = MADEX-504; Graphometer = X; Set of Drawing Instruments = P.C. | Baradelle Fils. | Paris. | MADEX; RSW; Bryden 9. | suggest correction |
| BARADELLE L'AINE | France, 1752-94, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | Graphometer, 1782 = Versailles 5/6/79; Cam-type Sundial in gold watch case = D.(1985); Spherical Level = Libert et Castor 4/28/82; Equatorial Sundial, gold = NMM; Pair of Globes, wood = Schuhmann Sale-96; Surveying Cross = ADL-W193; Mining Instrument Set = P.C.; Instument Set (1788) = P.C. | Baradelle L'aîné; Jean-Louis-Jacques Baradelle, fl.1774-94; Augarde thought him Nicolas-Alexandre Baradelle, c.1761; made nine nautical and mathematical instruments for Courtanvaux. | Rue Dauphine, Paris. | Courtanvaux; Daumas 1; NMM 2; Philips; A.J. Turner 10; ADL; Augarde; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARADELLE LAINE | France, MIM | Astronomical Ring = Drouot 4/7/87; Sundial = TIM (1987). | misinscribed; should read "Baradelle L'aîné." | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARADELLE S. OZ. | France, MIM | Pedometer in watch case = P.C. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARADELLE, CHEZ | France, MIM | Capuchin-type Sundial = ADL-A---. | probably by Jacques or Nicholas Baradelle. | Quay del'horloge du Palais à l'Enseigne de l'Observatoire, Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARADELLE, J.L.J. | France, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial = Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pa. | Jean Louis Jacques Baradelle, which see. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARADELLE, JEAN-LOUIS-JACQUES | France, 1752-94, MIM PHIM SIM | he made many instruments including sundials, sectors, globes, lodestones, artillery levels, graphometers, etc. | member of Guild of "fondeurs ciseleurs"; invented a type of crescent sundial and an artillery level; most instruments signed "Jacques Baradelle"; father of Nicholas-Eloi Baradelle; see Baradelle L'aîné. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Michel 1; Hamilton 1 and 2; NMM 2; Augarde; Wynter 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARADELLE, NICOLAS-ELOI | France, fl.pre-1774-1814, MIM | Universal Ring Sundials = Cardinal de Luynes (pre-1774), NMM (1774; Analemmatic Sundial = NMM; Meridian for a globe, 1774 = CNAM-1449; Ellipse Compass = CNAM-2774; Set of Geometric Figures, wood = CNAM-3824; Sundial = NAC; etc. | worked for Abbé Rochon in 1805; see Baradelle Fils; son of Jean-Louis-Jacques Baradelle. | Quay de l'Horloge, Paris. | Daumas 1; Maddison 1; Michel 3; Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; Wynter 1; Nachet; NMM 2; Augarde; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARADELLEN, JACQUES | see Jean Louis Jacques Baradelle. | suggest correction | ||||
| BARANCA, JOSEPH | Italy, 1687, MIM | worked with Franc. Ruvolo in producing globes; a terrestrial globe is signed "Franc. Ruvolo fecit. Joseph Baranca Sculpsit Octob. 1687" is at the Chicago Historical Society. | Yonge. | suggest correction | ||
| BARANDELLE FILS | misreading for Baradelle Fils. | Lempertz 6/14/76. | suggest correction | |||
| BARBA, GIOVANNI DELLA | Germany, c.1525, MIM | made excellent instruments, spheres, globes, astrolabes, etc. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BARBA, JOSEPH FRANCOIS | France, 1760, MIM | Astronomical Clock, 1760 = Museum, Nancy. | Joseph François Barba. | Michel 14. | suggest correction | |
| BARBANTI, CARLO | Italy, fl.1829-37, MIM PHIM SIM | Drawing Instrument = ROM; Polariscope = FLO; Barometer, De Luc-type = FLM. | machinist to the Royal Observatory in 1829 and to the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1837, both in Turin. | Turin. | USNM; G.L'E. Turner 24; Middleton 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARBARET, JACQUES | France, MIM | Sundial and Compass inside lower lid of watch = LOU. | ex-Garnier Coll. | Paris. | Garnier Cat. | suggest correction |
| BARBER, EDWARD | England, c.1674-97, MIM | apprenticed in the Joiners' Company in 1667; free of the Company in 1674; took apprentices. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BARBER, ISAAC | England, c.1676, | free of the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1676. | Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | ||
| BARBER, J. | England, c.1850, OIM | Telescopes = PMS, Christie-SK 4/17/86. | the Christie-SK telescope is signed "Barber London." | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARBERIOS, FELICE | Italy, 1680, MIM | Astronomical Clock, 1680 = Santa Maria delle Grazie Church, Milan. | Milan. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARBIER, JEAN | France, c.1720, MIM | apprenticed to Jean Lefebvre 2 in the "Corporation des fondeurs" on June 27, 1720. | Augarde 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BARBON 1 | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | 21 Panton Street, Haymarket, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARBON 2 | England, c.1825, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = Soth. 5/14/87 & 10/22/87; Stick Barometer = Christie-SK 10/20/89. | see Barbon and Co. | Fullwood Rents, Holborn, London; 281 Holborn, London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARBON AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Fullwood Rents, Holborn, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARBON, PETER | Scotland, fl.1808-12, OIM | Microscope, 1810 = RSM. | microscope has 77 Princes Street, Edinburgh as the address. | 4 Lothian Street; 18 Nicholson Street (1809); 77 Princes Street (1810); all in Edinburgh. | Taylor 2(1076); Goodison 1; Clay and Court; Bryden 3; Morrison-Low 1. | suggest correction |
| BARBON, S., AND CO. | Scotland, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Edinburgh. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(1076). | suggest correction | |
| BARCLAY, ADAM | Scotland, d.1753, MIM OIM | Edinburgh. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BARCLAY, ANDREW | Scotland, c.1870, OIM | Telescope = D.(1976); Telescope, Gregorian = Auction, Atlanta, Ga., May, 1987 = D.(1988); Telescope with micrometer eyepiece = FRK = RSM. | "engineer." | Kilmarnock. | Brieux 3; Clarke et al; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARCLAY, HUGH | Scotland, fl.1727-d.1749, OIM | also made watches. | Edinburg. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | |
| BARCLAY, W. | Scotland, fl.1825-26, MIM | invented instrument to measure elevations. | Auldeare, near Nairn. | Taylor 2(1480). | suggest correction | |
| BARCLAY, WILL. | PHIM | Stick Barometer, Num. 132 = Christie 12/8/76. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BARCLAY, WILLIAM | Scotland, fl.1731-d.1758, OIM | Edinburgh. | Bryden 3 and 4. | suggest correction | ||
| BARDE | France, c.1850, MIM | Equatorial Sundial = NYM. | Bardé. | Paris. | Lübke. | suggest correction |
| BARDIN 1 | England, MIM | Orrery = Auction, 1915. | see H. Bardin. | Dewhirst. | suggest correction | |
| BARDIN 2 | England, MIM | globe maker; either Thomas Marriot or William Bardin, which see. | USNM; Yonge.. | suggest correction | ||
| BARDIN 3 | England?, NIM | Sextant = D.(1968). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BARDIN, G.A. | England, MIM | Celestial Globe = NMM-G.166. | London. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
| BARDIN, H. | England, c.1780-85, MIM | Tellurium = NMM. | see Bardin 1. | London. | NMM 2. | suggest correction |
| BARDIN, THOMAS MARRIOT | England, fl.1806-27, MIM | Terrestrial Globes on sta = P-B 1946 (on stand), Boston Athenaeum, Mass., Wilson Museum, Castine, Me.; Celestial Globes = Wilson Museum (1800), P.C. | worked with William Bardin, his father or uncle; member of Girdlers' Company. | 16 Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London. | Taylor 2(1077); Crawforth 11; Yonge. | suggest correction |
| BARDIN, W. AND T.M. | England, c.1780-1819, MIM | Pairs of Globes = Soth., Wilkinson and Hodge 3/23/23, P-B 10/28/44-936, USNM, APS, Adams Nat'l Historic Site, Mass, (1800, 1807); Terrestrial Globes = Hispanic Society, New York, Essex Institute, Mass. (1798), Schuyler Mansion, (1798), Dartmouth College, New Hamp. (1814), Boston Athenaem, Mass. (1817), P.C. (1819); Celestial Globes = Christie 12/8/76, Essex Institute, USNM, Boston Athenaeum. | William and Thomas Marriot Bardin. | 16 Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London. | Taylor 2(796a, 1077); Multhauf 1; Bedini 1; RSW; USNM; Moskowitz 102; Crawforth 11; Yonge. | suggest correction |
| BARDIN, W., AND SON | England, MIM | Pair of Globes = University Observatory, Coimbra. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BARDIN, WILLIAM | England, fl.pre-1780-1803, MIM | Pairs of Globes = NMM-168 and -169, VCW, Longleat House; Terrestrial Globes = Archaeological Museum, Nivelles, Belgium, VCW (1782-2), Phillips 12/12/89 (1783); Celestial Globes = PEA (1782), VCW (1785). | in Leathersellers' Company; in Girdlers' Company, 1776; most work signed "W. Bardin"; worked with Thomas Marriot Bardin, which see; collaborated with James Ferguson; Longleat globes are ten-inch, celestial dated "April, 1785", the other dated "1783"; PEA signed "Wright's New Improved Celestial Globe----Made and Sold by William Bardin---Jany. 1, 1782." | 16 Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London. | Taylor 2(796a); Belgian Inventory; Moskowitz 102; NMM 2; Crawforth 11; Yonge; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARDON | misreading for Bardou. | suggest correction | ||||
| BARDOU | France, fl.1819-50, OIM | Telescope, enameled = Soth. 122/13/65-106; Telescope = PEA. | probably P.G. Bardou; he and A. Bardou shared the same address; firm established in 1819. | 55, rue de Chabrol, Paris. | USNM; Moskowitz 118; Brewington 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARDOU AND SON | France, post-1850, OIM | Telescope, 3-inch = P.C.; Telescopes = P.C.(1987), D.(1976). | first P.C. (3-inch) is 38" long; second P.C. is also marked "G B" with a type of ampersand in between. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARDOU AND SONS | France, post-1850, OIM | Telescope = D.(1977). | may be misreading for Bardou and Son. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARDOU ET FILS | France, post-1850, OIM | Telescopes = MYS. | one marked "Charles Hutchinson and Son, Boston." | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARDOU, A. | France, c.1850, OIM | Telescopes = Christie-SK 11/19/87 (2), 8/20/87. | 55, rue de Chabrol, Paris. | Moskowitz; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARDOU, P.G. | France, c.1850, OIM | made telescopes. | 55 rue de Chabrol, Paris. | Moskowitz; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAREKHAN, J.R. | Germany, NIM | Sextant = OMM. | Bremerhaven. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARELLA AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Newcastle. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARELLA, A. | Holland, PHIM | Barometer, double = Christie 12/8/76. | Amsterdam. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARELLA, D. | Holland, PHIM | Barometer = Soth.-Mak van Waay April, 1978. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| BARELLI | England, c.1790, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-Pulborough 3/1/83. | see Josh Barelli and Co. | Reading. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARELLI, JNO., AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X; Stick Barometer = X. | Bath. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARELLI, JOHN | England, PHIM | Stick Barometers = X, D.(1975); Barometer = D.(1971). | may be Barelli in Della Torre and Barelli, which see; X is signed "J. Barelli"; 1971 D. signed "Jon" with little bar under the "n". | London. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARELLI, JOSH, AND CO. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | see Barelli. | Reading. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARELLI, JUNO | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Abridge Antique and Auction 2/21/90. | may be misreading for Jno. Barelli. | Bath. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARETTA | USA, c.1850?, | see McAllister and Baretta. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BARINE, P. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | York. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARKER 1 | England, c.1736, OIM | microscope maker. | Nachet. | suggest correction | ||
| BARKER 2 | England, c.1780, MIM SIM | Theodolite = D. | Wynter and Turner. | suggest correction | ||
| BARKER 3 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer in door of clock = Connoisseur, July, 1911. | attributed to William Barker, clockmaker, fl.1747-86. | Wigan. | Goodison 1; A.J. Hawkes. | suggest correction |
| BARKER 4 | England, NIM | Magnetic Compass = Christie 3/9/65-3. | signed "Barker's Patents 181/15"; probably Francis Barker, which see. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARKER AND SON | England, 19th Century, NIM | Compass = Peron et Corsy, Melun 6/10/79. | probably Francis Barker and Son. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARKER, FRANCIS | England, c.1850, MIM NIM PHIM | Sundials, round, slate = Christie 12/18/74 = 4/9/75, P.C. | compass designer; see Barker 4. | 12 Clerkenwell Road, London. | NMM 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARKER, FRANCIS, AND SON | England, 1848-to present, MIM NIM PHIM | Sextant, box = Christie-SK 10/6/83; Augsburg-type Sundial = P.C.; Equatorial Sundials = Soth. 3/14/57-140, 11/9/59-174. | also made aneroid barometers; firm continues to produce instruments to this day; most are signed "F. Barker and Son"; T.C. marked "Late Grove and Barker"; "17 years with and successors to J. and G. Simms." | "Sundial House", 12 Clerkenwell Road; 23 Great Sutton Street, E.C. (post-1858); both in London. | Moskowitz 107; RSW; USNM; Chaldecott 3; RGO. | suggest correction |
| BARKER, WILLIAM | England, c.1711, MIM | apprenticed to John Worgan of the Grocers' Company on Oct. 8, 1700; was turned over to William Haddon, Stationer, on Mar. 12, 1700 (os). | London. | Taylor 1(560); Evans 1; J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARLACE | England, c.1780, MIM | Sectors = Soth. 6/23/87, Nouveau Drouot 5/20/88. | both sectors have twelve-inch radii. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARLING | England, post-1740, MIM | Soho Rule, boxwood and ivory = P.C. | a type of slide rule designed by James Watt, c.1739. | Limehouse Hole, London. | Delehar 2 and 9. | suggest correction |
| BARLOW, PETER | England, 1776-1862, | devised Barlow's Wheel, a machine which demonstrated Faraday's discovery of electro-mechanical rotation. | Greenslade, Jr. 1; G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | ||
| BARLOW, THOMAS H. | USA, 1789-1865, MIM | Planetaria = Washington and Lee University, Lexington Va., Sayre School, Lexington Ky., University of Mississippi, University, Miss. | the planetaria were very large, 13 feet in diameter; at least 11 more were made, now all lost; inventor; machinist; published a brochure for the instrument. | Lexington Ky.; Cincinnati, Ohio. | Langemann. | suggest correction |
| BARLOW, WILLIAM | England, 1544-1625 fl.1580-1618, MIM NIM | designed instruments, including a compass with an alidade to determine variation. | Winchester (1581); Salisbury (1615). | Taylor 1(37); Evans 1; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BARNABITI | Italy, c.1847, OIM | made reflecting microscopes. | Clay and Court. | suggest correction | ||
| BARNARD, I. | England, 1784, MIM | Gauge, folding, for wine = X; Slide Rule, 1784 = P.C. | Queries, S.I.S. Bull. 1, 1983; Delehar 9. | suggest correction | ||
| BARNARDA, P. | England, fl.1803-11, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | in directories as maker. | 22 West Street, West Smithfield, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BARNARDA, P. AND CO. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | see P. Barnarda. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARNASCHINA 1 | England, OIM | Telescope = D.(1973). | variant spelling of Barnasconi? | London. | RSW; Wynter 1. | suggest correction |
| BARNASCHINA 2 | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | probably Francis Barnasconi. | Newcastle-on-Tyne. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BARNASCHINA, ANTHONY | England, fl.1826-28, OIM PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2), Soth. 7/6/73. | one X is signed "A. Barnaschina." | New Road, Gravesend. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARNASCHINA, L. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Gravesend. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARNASCHONE | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Devizes. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARNASCHONE, CHAS. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Boston. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARNASCHONI AND MONTHI | see Bernaschoni and Monthi. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BARNASCHONI, B. | England, c.1800, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = P-B 10/24/42. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BARNASCONE 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2), Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. | possibly M. Barnascone. | Leeds. | Goodison 1; RSW; USNM. | suggest correction |
| BARNASCONE 2 | England, c.1825, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = D.(1997). | Merthyr. | ATG 6/14/97. | suggest correction | |
| BARNASCONE, A. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | could be Andrew Barnascone of Boston or A. Bernasconi of Leeds. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARNASCONE, ANDREW | England, c.1822, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 7/19/88. | signed "A. Barnascone". | High Street, Boston. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARNASCONE, G.B. | England, c.1780, PHIM | Stick Barometers = X, P.C. (1972). | 13 St. Michaels Square; 14 St. Michaels Square; both in Southampton. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARNASCONE, J., AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARNASCONE, M. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(4). | also spelled Bernasconi. | Leeds. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BARNASCONI, A. | England, 19th Century, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-Chester 2/2/84. | Leeds. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARNASCONI, F., AND SON | England, c.1860, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 10/19/87. | Francis Barnasconi renamed the firm to be "F. Barnasconi and Son" by 1860. | Newcastle. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARNASCONI, FRANCIS | England, fl.1827-58, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X; Stick Barometer = Christie-SK 2/26/88. | signed "F. Barnasconi, Newcastle"; also spelled Barnesconi. | 34 The Side (1827-34); 16 Groat Market (1838); 28 Groat Market (1841); 29 Groat Market (1844); 20 High Bridge (1847-53); 35 High Bridge (1855-58); all in Newcastle. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(1771); RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARNASCONI, L. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer with Thermometer = Soth. 12/15/83. | signed "L. Barnasconi Trowbridge Warranted." | Trowbridge. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARNASCONI, LEWIS | England, fl.1833-41, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2). | may have made barometers. | 42 Burgess Street (1833-37); 233 Waingate (1834-41); 19 Waingate (1841); all in Sheffield. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BARNASCONI, M. | England, c.1840, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = Soth.-Chester 5/16/85, 7/25/85. | Leeds. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARNES AND ASPINALL | England, PHIM | scale makers. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | ||
| BARNES, WILLIAM | England, c.1706, MIM | apprenticed to John Johnson 3 of the Grocers' Company on Aug. 24, 1706. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BARNESCONI | see Barnascone, Barnasconi and Bernasconi. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BARNETT, ASHER | England, fl.1770-77, OIM | spectacle grinder and optician. | 25 Coleman Street (1770); 25 Froggery (1777); both in Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| BARNETT, MORRIS | England, PHIM | Marine Barometer = MYS. | Ramsgate. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARNETT, THOMAS | England, 1768-1816 fl.1789-1816, MIM OIM PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | signed "T. Barnett"; T.C.; apprenticed in the Spectaclemakers' Company, 1782; free of the Company on Dec. 17, 1789; patented a method of aerating fluids, 1802; instrument maker to H.M. Board of Customs and Excise; advertised all kinds of barometers; made telescopes and other instruments. | 21 East Street, Lambeth (1789); 61 Great Tower Street; No. 4 Mores Yard, Old Fish Street near Dockers Commons; all in London. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(797); Dewhirst; Clay and Court; Calvert 2; Court and von Rohr 3(216); Crawforth 1. | suggest correction |
| BARNI | France, c.1825, PHIM | Wheel Barometer, diamond-shaped = Doyle 1/24/90. | Amiens. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARNS, DANIEL | England, c.1753, | apprenticed to Richard Rust of the Grocers' Company on March 16, 1753. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BARNUKA | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Bury. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BAROCCIO, AMBROGIO | Italy, c.1600, MIM | Morpurgo 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BAROCCIO, GIAMBATTISTA | Italy, | may be Giovanni Battista Baroccio. | Urbino. | Price 2. | suggest correction | |
| BAROCCIO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA | Italy, 1570, MIM | Armillary Sphere, 1570 = ROB. | see Giovanni Maria Baroccio; Price thought he was Giambattista Baroccio. | Venice; Urbino. | Morpurgo 1; Michel 2; Price 2. | suggest correction |
| BAROCCIO, GIOVANNI MARIA | Italy, 1570, MIM | Armillary Sphere, 1570 = ROB; Planetary Clock = Bernard Coll., Paris. | must be same as Giovanni Battista Baroccio, which see; clock was for the Pope; globe maker. | Urbino. | Morpurgo 1; Michel 2; Baillie 1. | suggest correction |
| BAROCCIO, SIMONE | Italy, fl.1568-70, MIM | son of Giovanni Maria Baroccio; clockmaker; made Commandino- and Guidobaldi-type proportional compasses. | Urbino. | Morpurgo 1; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BARON, EDMOND | England, c.1693, MIM | apprenticed to Thomas Feilder of the Clockmakers' Company on Oct. 7, 1693. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BARON, PATRICK | Ireland, 1794, OIM | optician. | 83 Dame Street, Dublin (1794). | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | |
| BARR | Scotland | see White and Barr. | Glasgow. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BARRAND, ROGER | France, | Aneroid Barometer = D.(1972). | "horloger"; reproduction. | rue Despiches, Orléans. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARRAUD | England, fl.1823-45, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = D. | also made chronometers. | 41 Cornhill, London. | Wynter and Turner; USNM. | suggest correction |
| BARRELL, JOHN | England?, c.1828, NIM | Sextant = Old Gaol Museum, Me. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| BARRERE | France, | see Girard et Barrère. | Christie-SK 4/17/86. | suggest correction | ||
| BARRETA, D. | England, c.1800, PHIM | Stick Barometers = X, D.(1996). | may be Dom Barret. | 67 Holborn, London. | Goodison 1; ATG 7/6/96. | suggest correction |
| BARRETT | England, NIM | see Spencer, Barrett and Co. | suggest correction | |||
| BARRETT, DOM | England, 1783?, PHIM | Angle Barometer = X. | dated in pencil; may be D. Barreta. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARRETT, ROBERT M. | England, c.1850, MIM | in Great Exhibition of 1851 in London; D. Primavesi was his agent in Cardiff. | 4 Jamaica Terrace, Limehouse, London. | G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARRETT, SIMON | England, c.1678, MIM | apprenticed to Thomas Claxton in the Clockmakers' Company; turned over to Joseph Wells of the Joiners' Company on July 3, 1668, until 1675; free of the Clockmakers' Company, April 8, 1678; took apprentices. | London. | J. Brown 3; Loomes 2. | suggest correction | |
| BARRINGTON, THOMAS | England, c.1828, MIM | 32 Wytch Street, Strand, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
| BARROLL, JOHN | England, c.1701, MIM | apprenticed to John Wood 1 of the Clockmakers' Company for eight years on June 1, 1701. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BARROW AND OWEN | England, MIM NIM OIM | T.C. in marine compass box; Henry Barrow. | 26 Oxenden Street, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARROW, HENRY | England, 1790-1870, MIM NIM PHIM | Theodolite = KEN; Telescope = KEN; Mariner's Compass = NMM; Gunner's Level = NMM; Dip Needles = USNM, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Hurstmonceaux Castle; Actinometer = KEN; Barometer, Thermometers (2) = P. & S. 2/4/1876. | might have been apprenticed to either George Dollond 1 or Edward Troughton 2 as he did work for both of them before 1829; appointed MIM under the Surveyor General of India (1830-39); succeeded to the business of Thomas Charles Robinson in 1842; became "Robinson and Barrow" (1842-50); also made balances; invented a new dip needle. | London (pre 1830); Calcutta (1830-39); 38 Devonshire Street, London (1842-43); 26 Oxenden Street, London (1845-64). | Pipping 1; RSW; Bryden 8; Taylor 2(2069); McConnell; USNM; NMM 2; Stock 1 & 2. | suggest correction |
| BARROW, HENRY, AND CO. | England, fl.1850-69, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Thermometer = Soth. 3/11/77; Telescope, three-draw = Phillips 1/30/84; Sextant, box = Phillips 10/26/83; Protractor, full, with sights = Drouot 4/7/87. | some signed "H. Barrow and Co.; one carries the East India Co. trademark; also made theodolites, magnetic compasses, etc.; see Henry Barrow. | 26 Oxenden Street, London. | O'Mara; RSW; USNM; Stock 1 & 2. | suggest correction |
| BARROW, JOHN | England, 1792, MIM | author. | London. | Dawson 216, 1971. | suggest correction | |
| BARROW, W., AND W. LOVELACE | England, pre-1756, PHIM | T.C.; made artificial magnets; partnership broke up in 1756. | at the Golden Lion in St. Martins Le-Grand, London. | Calvert 2; Crawforth 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARROW, WILLIAM | England, c.1756, NIM PHIM | Compass, 1756 = NMM. | T.C.; see W. Barrow and W. Lovelace; made artificial magnets; left London in 1756. | London; Woolton near Prescott, Lancs. (1756). | NMM 2; Calvert 2. | suggest correction |
| BARRY | England, c.1800, MIM NIM | Telescope, pocket = Soth.-N.Y. 2/23/79; Octant = Seamans Institute, New York; Sextants = MYS, LIM, Soth. 10/17/60-157; Circular Protractor = D.(1976). | probably Richard Barry, which see. | London. | Moskowitz, 1976; RSW; USNM. | suggest correction |
| BARRY, JOSEPH | Ireland, fl.1780-1824, MIM SIM | Circumferentor = X. | also a watchmaker. | Cork. | Mollan 1 and 2; SIS Bulletin #1, 1983; Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction |
| BARRY, M. | England, fl.1815-25, MIM | continued Richard Barry's business. | Navigation Warehouse, Minories, London. | Moskowitz 112; USNM; Brewington 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARRY, RICHARD | England, fl.1799-1820, MIM NIM OIM | Telescopes = PEA, P.C.(1969); Protractor, full, with arm = D. (1976); Sextant, ebony = D.(1993). | sextant scale is signed "I.R." (8); T.C. | 290 Wapping Street (1799-); 106 Minories; Navigation Warehouse, Minories (1810-15); all in London. | Moskowitz 112; Taylor 2(925); Brewington 1; Calvert 2; Crawforth 1; Coffeen 43. | suggest correction |
| BARSTON, JOHN | England, fl.1738-40, | patented a quadrant, 1738; Joseph Turner worked with him on the quadrant. | Hatton Garden, London. | Taylor 2(228); Dewhirst; Evans 1; Millburn 8. | suggest correction | |
| BART, JOHANN | Germany, c.1525, MIM | see Giovanni della Barba. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BARTENSCHLAGER, J.C. | Germany, 1713-99, MIM SIM | Universal Ring Sundial = SCH-5269; Table Sundials = SCH-5268, ZUS-LM2639, and ZUR(2); Graphometer = ZUR; Surveying Instruments = SCH and ZUS; Sector = Soth. 10/17/60-132. | Schaffhausen. | Zinner 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARTHELEMY | France, c.1790, PHIM | Hydrometer, silver, case = Drouot 11/7/75. | "Md Orfèvre et Joailler de Lunel"; Barthélémy. | dans la Grand'rue, vis-à-vis le Bureau de la Colerie, No. 346, Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARTHELMES | Germany, c.1830, PHIM | Barometer = DRE. | Gotha. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARTHOLOMAEUS, S. | Germany, 1736, MIM | Sundial, stone and brass, 1736 = FRA. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BARTHOLOMEW, ABBOT | Germany, 1550, MIM | Chalice Dial, 1550 = BM-1896/12/14-1. | see B.A. 2. | Aldersbach. | Price 3; Ward 4; Evans 1; Gatty. | suggest correction |
| BARTLETT, JOHN 1 | England, c.1754, MIM | apprenticed to John Gilbert 1 of the Grocers' Company on Dec. 18, 1746; turned over to John Urings 2 in the Joiners' Company by Barbara Gilbert, administrator, on March 18, 1752; free in the Grocers' Company, Feb. 5, 1754. | J. Brown 1; Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BARTLETT, JOHN 2 | England, c.1900, | Roman Sundials, copies = Wray Sale-78 = OXF (falsely dated 1640), ADL-T46 (falsely dated 1642). | by D.B. Sheahan of New York City; address marked on sundials is "Chester." | Michel 1; Dyer; Fox 2; Tomlinson 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARTLETT, MOSES | England, d.1709, MIM | sundial recorded. | Exeter. | Loomes 2. | suggest correction | |
| BARTLETT, WILLIAM | England, c.1700, | apprenticed to Elizabeth Toogood in the Joiners' Company, July 16, 1700. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BARTOLLA, G. | England, c.1775, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 12/15/72. | Barford. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARTON 1 | England, 18th Century, MIM | Ramsden worked under him. | Nachet . | suggest correction | ||
| BARTON 2 | England, 19th Century, OIM | Telescope, three-draw = Christie-SK 4/14/89. | Strand, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BARTON, JOHN | England, fl.1791-1815, NIM | invented a type of floating compass. | 36 Old Bond Street; upper Belgrave Square, Pimlico; both in London. | Taylor 2(926). | suggest correction | |
| BARTON, PETER | misreading for Peter Barbon. | Morrison-Low; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BARTRAM, ABRAHAM | England, c.1602, | apprenticed to Charles Whitwell of the Grocers' Company on June 24, 1602. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BARTS | England, MIM | Sundial, portable, case = Central Museum and Art Gallery, Northampton. | London. | Stevens and Aked. | suggest correction | |
| BARTSCH, JACOB | Holland, 1600-33, MIM | Instrument, 1624 = LEY. | also marked "Jac. ab Leiden." | Leiden. | Price 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BARTSCHERER, HANS | Sweden, fl.1563-82, MIM | Cube Dial, 1580 = STH-12580. | Stockholm. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| BARUCKER | Germany, 18th Century, OIM | made Cuff-type microscopes; optician; possibly W. Burucker, which see. | Nürnberg. | Nachet; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BASERGA | France, c.1805, MIM | succeeded by his son, A. Baserga. | 54 Quai des Orfevres et 15 Place Dauphines, Paris. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BASERGA, A. | France, c.1830, MIM | succeeded his father, Baserga. | Paris. | USNM; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BASERGA, F., AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Ipswich. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BASNETT | early spelling for Bassnett. | Moskowitz 101. | suggest correction | |||
| BASS | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Northampton. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BASS, GEORGE | England, fl.1706-69, OIM | apprenticed in 1706 to Ralph Sterrop of the Spectaclemakers' Company; free of the Company on March 28, 1716; Master of the Company in 1747; took apprentices; made early achromatic lenses in 1733 which had been invented by Chester Moor Hall. | Bridewell Precinct (1733); Fleet Ditch (1764); both in London. | Taylor 2(6); Daumas 1; Dewhirst; Court and von Rohr 3(82); A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BASSANO, CHRISTOPHER | Italy, fl.1700-50, MIM | Sundial = E.C. Middleton Coll. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BASSETT | USA, MIM | Bassett Adder = D.(1984). | Chicago, Ill. | Moskowitz 127. | suggest correction | |
| BASSETT, N. | USA, 1836, | patented a surveying compass, 1836. | Wilmington, Del. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BASSETT, THOMAS | England, c.1669, MIM | apprenticed by turnover to Isaac Webb of the Clockmakers' Company on Jan. 18, 1669. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BASSNET, JAMES | see James Bassnett. | suggest correction | ||||
| BASSNETT | England, c.1840, NIM | Quadrant = PMS; Hadley's Quadrant = PEA-M3274; Octants = PMS (2), BMM, NMM, Dukes County Historical Society, Edgartown, Mass. | one PMS marked "G.W." on ivory scale, the other "SBR"; surely James Bassnett. | Liverpool. | NMM 2; Brewington 1; RSW; Moskowitz 101; USNM. | suggest correction |
| BASSNETT, J., AND H. DUREN | England; USA, c.1850, NIM | Octant = PMS. | James Bassnett and his New York dealer, Henry Duren. | Liverpool and New York, N.Y. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BASSNETT, JAMES | England, fl.1829-57, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Barometer = PEA-751; Stick Barometers = PMS, VNN, MYS; Telescope = Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Ill.; Marine Barometer = MYS; Sextant = SFM; Quadrant = D.(1972). | changed name from Basnet to Bassnett in 1841; spelling variants are Bassnet and Basnett; optician; watch and clockmaker; T.C.; in partnership with son, Thomas?, 1857-60. | 4 Barnes Court, Shaws Brow (1829); 13 Roberts Street North (1834-37); 1 Roberts Street (1841-51); 58 Roberts Street (1857); 8 Roberts Street (1857-60); all in Liverpool. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(2070); Brewington 1; Moskowitz 101; Bryden 9; USNM; Crawforth 6; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BASSNETT, JAMES, AND SON | England, fl.1855-65, MIM OIM PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X; Stick Barometer = Soth. 7/16/76; Marine Compass = Soth.-PB pre-1980; Telescope = Christie-SK 4/14/89. | opticians; probably the son was Thomas Bassnett; both barometers and telescope signed "Bassnett and Son"; compass signed "J. Bassnet and Son, Liverpool". | 8 Roberts Street, Liverpool. | Bryden 9; Moskowitz 104; Brewington 1; Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BASSO, FRANCESCO | Italy, fl.1560-70, MIM | also a cartographer. | Milan. | Tooley. | suggest correction | |
| BASTARD, WILLIAM | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BASTICK AND DRIVER | England, PHIM | T.C.; scale makers; "late forman and apprentice to Mr. Vandome." | No.2 Holywell Row, Worship Street, near Finsbury Square, London. | Calvert 2. | suggest correction | |
| BASTIEN L'AINE | France, 1842, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, 1842 = BOM 3/28/06-556. | Bastien L'aîné. | Rue St André des Arts, 60, Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BAT. LUGD. | 1640, MIM | Diagonal Scale, 1640 = SKO. | may be Lugdini for London. | Price 2; Bedini 5; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BATCH, J. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Chichester. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BATE | England, fl.1807-49, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | wide range of instruments that may be seen in many museums including a terrestrial globe on tellurian, ADL-L34, garden sundial at Washington Old Hall, Washington Village, County Durham; a wooden protractor, 1846, at BM; mountain barometer in a cane; Bate's Ready Reckoner; Thomson's Lunar Corrector (No. 209), etc. | could be Robert Brettell Bate or his son; ADL tellurian is reputed to be by Sauter and Gyldenstolke. | 17 Poultry, Cheapside; 20/21 Poultry, Cheapside; both in London. | Taylor 2(1079); Goodison 1; Dewhirst; Brewington 1; Price 3; Ward 4; Moskowitz 107; Mörzer Bruyns 1; Delehar 9; ADL; Yonge; Coffeen 35; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BATE AND POULTRY | misreading for Bate in Poultry. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BATE AND SON | England, pre-1840-49, | Robert Bretsell Bate and son. | London. | Taylor 2(1079); Moskowitz 105. | suggest correction | |
| BATE, BARTHOLOMEW | England, 1806-95, OIM | apprenticed to Robert Brettell Bate, his father, of the Spectaclemakers' Company on Jan. 24, 1822, free of the Company on Jan. 27, 1829; see Bartlett Bate. | Clay and Court; Taylor 2(1079); Court and von Rohr 3(249). | suggest correction | ||
| BATE, BARTLETT | England, c.1822, OIM PHIM | optician; took out a patent for improvements in hydrometers and saccharometers; called Junior; may be Brettell or Bretsell Bate or may be confused with Bartholomew Bate; may be the son of Robert Bretsell Bate or may be a ghost except for the "Jr." | of the Poultry, London. | Taylor 2(1079); Clay and Court; Court and von Rohr 3(249). | suggest correction | |
| BATE, HENRY | France, c.1274, | wrote a treatise on the astrolabe. | Malines. | Gunther 1; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BATE, JOHN | England, 1809-40, PHIM | worked with his father, Robert Brettell Bate. | London. | McConnell 4. | suggest correction | |
| BATE, JOHN 1 | England, c.1626, MIM | made gunner's scales; may be John Bates. | London. | Taylor 1(52); Evans. | suggest correction | |
| BATE, JOHN 2 | Ireland, 1750, MIM | Sundials = X (1750), Soth.-PB pre-1980. | Dublin. | Morrison-Low and Burnett; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BATE, JOHN 3 | England, c.1832, OIM | London. | Taylor 2(1773). | suggest correction | ||
| BATE, P. | England, 18th Century, MIM | Sundial = Christie-SK 11/27/86. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BATE, PHILIP | Ireland, fl.1761-62, MIM | Nicholas Street, Dublin. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | ||
| BATE, ROBERT BRETTELL | England, 1782-1847, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | wide range of instruments that may be seen in many museums; they include orreries, microscopes, dials, telescopes, globes, octants, barometers, etc.; Meridian Transit = ADL-A138. | T.C.;made free of the Spectaclemakers' Companyby redemption in 1814; Master of the Company, 1828-30; took his son, Bartholomew, as apprentice in 1822 and as partner before 1840; Brettell also appears as Brettel and Bretsell; some instruments are signed "R.B. Bate"; "Optician in Ordinary" to George IV in 1818, to William IV in 1830 and to Queen Victoria in 1837; also acted as dealer; T.C. | 17 Poultry; 20/21 Poultry (1830); both in Cheapside, London. | Taylor 2(1079); Goodison 1; Moskowitz 105; Brewington 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; Price 3; Ward 4; Calvert 2; Crawforth 1 & 7; Court and von Rohr 3(238); McConnell 4; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BATECIN, S. LAUR. | Italy, NIM | Compass in gimbals = FLO-3176. | Venice. | Bonelli 1. | suggest correction | |
| BATEMAN, JOSEPH | England, fl.1823-40, MIM | made an eight-foot slide rule. | Middlesex. | Taylor 2(2071). | suggest correction | |
| BATEMAN, T. | England, MIM | globe maker; succeeded by John Newton. | at the Globe and Sun in Chancery Lane, Fleet Street, London. | Crawforth 1. | suggest correction | |
| BATENBURG AND CO. | Holland, c.1790, NIM | Octants, ebony and ivory = ADL-A192, Christie 12/18/74. | Rotterdam. | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BATENBURGH, JAN VAN | see Jan van Call. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BATERNA | 1780, PHIM | made barometer, c.1780; Baserga? | Halifax. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BATES | England, c.1760, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2), Phillips 4/20/83. | Kettering. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BATES, JOHN | see John Bate 1. | Taylor 1(52); Evans 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BATES, RICHARD | England, MIM | T.C. | at the Quadrant without Newgate facing the Old Bailey, London. | Crawforth 1. | suggest correction | |
| BATES, THOMAS | England, c.1686, | apprenticed to John Worgan of the Grocers' Company on June 3, 1686. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BATH, ABRAHAM | Abraham, Bath; misreading of name on globe in the Chicago Historical Society; see Abraham 1 and Jacob Abraham. | Yonge; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BATHER | England, PHIM | Chondrometer = Christie-SK 10/6/83. | Haymarket. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BATIS, IOANNES | Italy, c.1575, MIM | Horary Quadrant = FLO-2525. | for latitude 42°. | Bonelli 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
| BATKA, WENZD | Czechoslovakia, c.1850, MIM | in the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. | Prague (Austria). | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
| BATTELL, AFFABELL | England, fl.1737-48, MIM | apprenticed to John Potten in the Broderers' Company, Jan. 15, 1707; free in the Company, June 8, 1737; assistant compass maker at Deptford Yard, 1741-48. | Beaufort Buildings in the Strand, London (1737). | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| BATTEN, EDWARD | England, c.1671, MIM | apprenticed by turnover to John Marke of the Clockmakers' Company on Jan. 16, 1671. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BATTENBURG AND CO. | misreading for Batenburg and Co. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BATTENBURGH | see Jan Bacher van Call. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BATTI | see Moretti and Batti. | suggest correction | ||||
| BATTINI, B. | Italy, 1721, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, silver and ivory, 1721 = Michel Sale-7. | the bottom has an engraved cruciform motif. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BATTISTA, B.D. | England, c.1860, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-S 1/27/88. | Downham. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BATTISTESSA | see Zerbonie, Battistessa and Co. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BATTISTESSA AND CO. 1 | Scotland, c.1825, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = P.C. (1974); Soth.-S 1/27/88. | 8 and 9 Calton Street, Edinburgh. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BATTISTESSA AND CO. 2 | England, fl.1830-43, PHIM | made barometers and thermometers; see Battistessa, Molteni and Guanziroli; see Zerboni, Battistessa, Molteni and Guanziroli. | 13 Baldwins Gardens (1830-33); 106 Hatton Garden (1840-43); both in London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BATTISTESSA, MOLTENI AND GUANZIROLI | England, c.1834, PHIM | made barometers. | 13 Baldwins Gardens, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BAUDEN | Belgium, c.1800, MIM | Alidade = DOR. | Mons. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAUDOU | France, c.1788, PHIM | made a balance barometer in 1788. | Grenoble. | Middleton 1. | suggest correction | |
| BAUER, CARL | Germany, c.1820, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, miniature, box = Soth. 6/23/87. | globe marked "P.B. 5"; published a pocket globe with the celestial gores on the outside of the case. | Nürnberg. | Edell 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BAUER, JOH. BERNARD | Germany, fl.1790-1801, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1792 = BAM; Terrestrial Globes = Markisches Museum, Berlin (1801), Soth. 6/9/25; Globe, 1800 = X; Planetarium, 1791 = BAM. | "mechanicus"; see Klinger and Bauer. | Nürnberg. | RSW; Tooley. | suggest correction |
| BAUER, JOHANN | Germany, 1639, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1639 = Berlin-Babelsberg University Observatory. | see Jan van Call; may be same man. | Callens. | Zinner 1; Price 2. | suggest correction |
| BAUER, KILIAN | Germany, fl.1725-26, MIM | Pillar Sundials, 1725, 1726 = WUR. | Würzburg. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| BAUER, P. | Germany, 1683, MIM | Equatorial Sundial, 1683 = OXF. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BAUGH, JOHN | England, c.1672, | apprenticed to Walter Hayes of the Grocers' Company on June 24, 1672. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BAUM, J., AND CO. | England, c.1875, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, folding = WHI. | marked "Birmingham Patent", but no patent found. | Birmingham. | Bryden 16. | suggest correction |
| BAUMANN | Germany, fl.1760-1830, MIM NIM SIM | Circumferentor = STL; Repeating Circle = AMST. | Stuttgart. | Daumas 1; Evans 1; Mörzer Bruyns 1. | suggest correction | |
| BAUMGARTINGER, JEAN ERASME | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Table Sundial, octagonal = Rosenheim Sale-374; Equatorial Sundial, copper-gilt and silvered = MADEX-152 = P.C.. | Mergentheim. | Michel 3; MADEX. | suggest correction | |
| BAUMGARTNER, FRIEDRICH | Germany, 1759-1843, | Baumgärtner; wrote on new mechanical instruments. | Leipzig. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
| BAUSCH, J.J. | Germany?, PHIM | Microscope, pocket, wood = HAR. | "Excelsior Microscope." | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAUSSARD | France?, 1790, MIM | Water Clock, 1790 = CNAM. | Cons. Nat'l 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BAUSSE, JOHANN GEORG | Germany, fl.1750-84, MIM | made Copernican and Tychonic planetaria, now lost. | Gotha. | Zinner 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BAXTER | USA, NIM | see Nickerson and Baxter. | Boston, Mass. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BAXTER, JOHN | England, fl.1825-26, MIM | 32 John Street, Birmingham. | Taylor 2(1481). | suggest correction | ||
| BAXTER, ROBERT | England, c.1830, OIM | Livery Street, Birmingham. | Taylor 2(1774). | suggest correction | ||
| BAXTER, WILLIAM | England, c.1752, | apprenticed to John Gilbert 2 of the Grocers' Company on Mar. 19, 1752. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BAYENS GEBROEDERS | Holland, fl.1798-1850, MIM OIM SIM | Microscopes = LEY (1798), LEY; Circumferentor = Christie-SK 9/11/86. | Pieter and Adrianus Bayens; see Dellebarre and Bayens Gebroeders. | Delft. | Rooseboom 1; Daumas 1; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BAYENS, ADRIANUS | Holland, fl.1790-post-1842, MIM OIM | see Bayens Brothers; see Dellebarre and Bayens Brothers. | Delft. | Rooseboom 1; Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BAYENS, PIETER | Holland, 1744-1846, MIM OIM | Plane Table Alidade = Christie-SK 11/19/87. | see Bayens Brothers; see Dellebarre and Bayens Brothers. | Delft. | Rooseboom 1; Daumas 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BAYER, JOSEPH | Germany, c.1771, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundial = Soth. May, 1903 = Evans Coll. = OXF-G.434. | marked "Soc. Jesu fecit." | Augsburg. | Zinner 1; Bobinger 2; Evans 1; Michel 3; Maddison 1; RSW; Gatty. | suggest correction |
| BAYER, MARTIN | Germany, c.1559, MIM | clockmaker; see M.B. 3. | Annaberg. | Bobinger 2. | suggest correction | |
| BAYLEY 1 | England, fl.1663-70, OIM | Monconys called him Baili (1666); member of the Spectaclemakers' Company, 1663; optician. | in St. Paul's Churchyard, London. | Taylor 1(295); Daumas 1; Michel 3; Dewhirst; Court and von Rohr 3(III). | suggest correction | |
| BAYLEY 2 | sometimes Baili, Bailie, Baly, Baylie, Baille. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BAYNHAM, CHARLES | England, c.1744, | apprenticed to George Adams 1 of the Grocers' Company on Mar. 8, 1742; turned over to William Collier, Goldsmith, on Oct. 27, 1744. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BAYSER | Germany, MIM | Inclinable Sundial, case = MADEX-133 = P.C. | may be Beyser. | MADEX. | suggest correction | |
| BAYSER, BOE | Denmark, 1735, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1735 = Drecker Coll. | Price 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BAZERGA, GEBROEDEN | Holland, c.1830, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Phillips 4/20/83. | "Gebroeden Bazerga tot Rotterdam." | Rotterdam. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BAZZANTI, ISIDORUS GASPAR | Italy, 1760, OIM | Solar Microscope, 1760 = FLO-3229. | Bonelli 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BEACH AND BALDEN | England, -1817, PHIM | Thomas Beach and Joseph Balden; balance makers; succeeded by W. and T. Avery 1 in 1817. | Birmingham. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
| BEACH, LEWIS | USA, fl.1830-46, MIM | made rules and squares. | Mass.(1830-46); Bennington, Vermont (1859). | DATM. | suggest correction | |
| BEACH, THOMAS | England, c.1800, PHIM | made balances; T.C.; was partner with Joseph Balden; succeeded by W. and T. Avery. | No. 11 in Digbeth, Birmingham. | Giordano 1; Calvert 2; G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
| BEAL, JOHN | England, c.1826, MIM | had James Prentice as an apprentice, c.1826; was he possibly John Beale 1 or 2? | London. | Smart 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BEALE, JOHN 1 | England, c.1812, MIM | Middlesex. | Taylor 2(1273). | suggest correction | ||
| BEALE, JOHN 2 | England, 19th Century, MIM OIM PHIM | T.C. | No. 76 Maid Lane near the Borough, London. | Calvert 2; Crawforth 1. | suggest correction | |
| BEAN, FOWLER | England, fl.1781-91, | apprenticed to George Adams 2 of the Grocers' Company on June 18, 1773; free of the Company on March 1, 1781; described himself as "surgeon" and took his two sons as apprentices. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BEARD, CORNELIUS | England, c.1670, MIM | apprenticed by turnover to Edward Thorogood of the Clockmakers' Company on Oct. 7, 1670; turned over to James Atkinson 1 of the Clockmakers' Company. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BEARELLI | see Riva and Bearelli. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BEARETTI, PETER | England, c.1833, PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker. | 26 Great Bath Street, Clerkenwell, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BEASARDO, P. | Germany, 1553, MIM | Equatorial Sundial, 1553 = Drecker Coll. | Price 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BEATTIE | see Proctor and Beattie. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BEAUJEU, FRANQUE A. | France, MIM | Garden Sundials = Peron et Corsy, Melun 6/10/79. | Rhône. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BEAUJEU, LIENARD DE | Canada, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial = X. | "Nouvelle France." | "Antiques", 1965, 87:336-7. | suggest correction | |
| BEAULIEU, A. | Belgium, c.1790, OIM | made optical squares; showed in the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. | Brussels. | USNM; J.A. Bennett 2. | suggest correction | |
| BEAUME | France, pre-1782, PHIM | Beaumé; invented an areometer. | Courtanvaux. | suggest correction | ||
| BEAUMONT, PHILIP | England, c.1689, MIM | apprenticed to Withers Cheney of the Clockmakers' Company on Aug. 15, 1689. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BEAUTEMPS DE ST.-POURCIN, P. | France, c.1575, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial, mounted on an atlas figure = D.(1976). | signed also "Inventeur." | Avergne. | Brieux 3; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction |
| BEAUTIN | France, c.1820, MIM | Window Dial, glass, with noon cannon = Satterlee Coll. | "Opticien de la Reine." | Rue de Castiglione No. 8, Paris. | Hamilton 2. | suggest correction |
| BEAUVAL, FIRMIN DE | France, c.1485, | designed an astronomical clock. | Amiens. | Weil 2(23). | suggest correction | |
| BEAVER, SAMUEL | England, c.1828, | apprenticed to William Green 2 in the Joiners' Company on Dec. 4, 1828. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BEAVES | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Trowbridge. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BEAVISS, EDWARD | England, 1760, MIM | Orrery, 1760 = Soth. 12/16/63-112. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BECHADERGUE, P. | France?, 18th Century, MIM | Dividers, wood = D.(1982). | Coffeen A. | suggest correction | ||
| BECHER, A.B. | England, fl. 1836-44, | invented an artificial horizon c.1843. | London. | McConnell 4. | suggest correction | |
| BECHLIN | pre-1798, PHIM | made magnets. | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BECHTLER | USA, MIM SIM | Surveying Level, hand-held = North Carolina State Archives. | Rutherford County, North Carolina. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BECK | see R.and J. Beck; see Smith and Beck. | suggest correction | ||||
| BECK, G. | England, fl.1780-1840, NIM | Quadrant = Auction, August, 1807. | invented a quadrant, theodolite and protractor patented in 1780. | Taylor 2(1080); KEN. | suggest correction | |
| BECK, GEORGE W. | USA, c.1834, PHIM | manufactured and sold electrical machinery of various kinds. | Boston, Mass. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BECK, JOSEPH | England, c.1847, OIM | microscope maker; worked with his brother, Richard Beck 2, as R. and J. Beck. | London. | Moskowitz 132. | suggest correction | |
| BECK, R. AND J. | England, fl.1847-94, OIM | Microscope = D.(1989). | Richard and Joseph Beck. | 31 Cornhill, London. | Moskowitz 132. | suggest correction |
| BECK, RICHARD 1 | England, 1637, | apprenticed to Daniel Quare 1 of the Clockmakers' Company in 1673. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BECK, RICHARD 2 | England, fl.1847-, OIM | worked first with James Smith 3 as Smith and Beck; later with his brother, Joseph Beck and James Smith 3; after 1866 worked alone with Joseph Beck. | London. | Moskowitz 111. | suggest correction | |
| BECKEL BROTHERS | USA, OIM | Telescope = MYS. | New York, N.Y. | RSW; WEBDB. | suggest correction | |
| BECKER | England, PHIM | Balance, case = Peron et Corsy, Melun 6/10/79. | probably Jecker. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BECKER AND SONS | USA, post-1836, MIM NIM SIM | founded by Christopher Becker 2, which see. | Brooklyn, N.Y. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BECKER'S SONS | Holland?; USA, c.1860, PHIM | Specific Gravity Balance = D.(1972). | New York, N.Y. | Moskowitz 104. | suggest correction | |
| BECKER, A. | Germany, c.1850, PHIM | Barometer = DRE. | Gotha. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BECKER, ANDREAS | Germany, 1607, MIM | Astrolabe, 1607 = Elblag Museum, Poland. | ICA-594; offered to the Boerhave Museum, June, 1988. | Zinner 1; Price 1; ICA 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BECKER, C. | England, c.1850, PHIM | Galvanometer = Royal Institution, London; Heliochronometer = D.(1987). | London. | Coffeen 16; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BECKER, CHRISTOPHER 1 | Holland, 1806-90, PHIM | Physical Instruments = LEY, GRO. | Groningen. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| BECKER, CHRISTOPHER 2 | Holland; USA, 1806-90, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | Theodolites = P.C., Christie-Amst 10/22/81-623. | made astronomical and nautical instruments; made first analytical balance in the U.S; see Becker's Sons; founded Becker and Sons in Brooklyn, N.Y. post-1836; Christie theodolite is signed "Becker Arnhem"; had display in Great Exhibition of 1851 in London as from Arnhem. | Arnhem (1851); New York, N.Y. | USNM; G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BECKET, JOHN | England, c.1698, MIM | apprenticed to Richard Conyers of the Clockmakers' Company on Dec. 15, 1698. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BECKETT, BENJAMIN | England, c.1767, | apprenticed to John Urings 2 in the Joiners' Company on March 3, 1767. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BECKHER, JOHANN | Austria, 1726, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1726 = NUR-WI1212. | invented by R.P. Michael Caucigh. | Linz. | Zinner 1; Globus Dec., 1956. | suggest correction |
| BECKIT, ROBERTUS | England, 1597, MIM | Sector with bow, 1597 = P.C. = OXF. | steel points. | Calvert 3; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BECKMAN, L. | USA, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass = Gurley Museum, Troy, N.Y. | Toledo, Ohio. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BEDFORD, HILKIAH | England, 1634-89, MIM | Universal Ring Sundials = NMM, OXF, FLO, LAW, PAK, Foster's Sales Rooms, May, 1916, London Museum, Soth. 6/23/69; Quadrant = Soth. 10/22/76; Gunter Quadrant and Nocturnal = TIM; Dialing Rule = KEN. | apprenticed to John Thompson 1 of the Stationers' Company in 1646; free of the Company in 1654; admitted to Clockmakers' Company in 1667; took apprentices. | Hosier Lane (-1666); at the Sign of the Globe, near Holborn Conduit; in Fleet Street, near end of Fetter Lane (1666-89); all in London. | Taylor 1(284); Maddison 1; Clay and Court; Dewhirst; Michel 3; J. Brown 1 and 3; A.J. Turner 8, 9 & 10; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BEDINGTON, JOHN | England, fl.1845-52, | T.C. | No. 40 Digbeth, Birmingham. | Crawforth 1. | suggest correction | |
| BEDOS DE CELLES | France, | author; designed sundials. | suggest correction | |||
| BEDWELL, THOMAS 1 | England, 1546-95, | designed a carpenter's rule. | London. | Taylor 1(41). | suggest correction | |
| BEDWELL, THOMAS 2 | England, fl.1825-49, MIM PHIM | made barometers and thermometers. | Leman Street, Goodmans Field (1825); 53 Great Alie Street (1834-45); 3-4 Little Alie Street (1846-49; all in London. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(1483). | suggest correction | |
| BEEFE, NICOLAS DE | Holland, fl.1761-67, MIM | The Hague. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BEELDSNIJDER, FRANCOIS | Holland, 1755-1808, OIM | Microscope objective, achromatic, 1791 = UTR-Physics Lab. | François Beeldsnijder. | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1; Daumas 1. | suggest correction |
| BEELING, Z. | see Boyling 2. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BEER, JOOST DE | Holland, fl.1620-30, MIM | Sundial, 1625 = ROM; Astronomical Compendium = LEY-A74; Dutch Box Sundial, silver and ivory = Wray Sale-38. | delivered instruments for Jacob van Neck's expedition; surely the maker of a pocket sundial signed "I.B." (10) at AMST, which see; perhaps the same as Joost Peer. | Amsterdam. | Zinner 1; Rooseboom 1; Price 2; Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction |
| BEERS, JAMES M. | USA, c.1810?, MIM | Wheelbarrow Hodometer = USNM. | New Haven, Conn. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BEERS, SMITH | USA, 1839, MIM | held a patent on a hodometer, 1839. | Waterbury, Conn. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BEETS, CORNELLIS | Germany, c.1787, NIM | Compass Roses = HAM, Focke. | Hamburg. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BEHAIM, CASPAR | see Chasparus Bohémus. | Vincent 2. | suggest correction | |||
| BEHAIM, HANS | 1740, PHIM | Weather Forecaster, 1740, #37 = MUN. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BEHAIM, MARTIN | Germany, 1459-1507, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, 1492 = NUR. | the globe is of cardboard covered with vellum. | Nürnberg. | Behaim Cat., 1957; Crone; Winter; Culver; Candee; Stevenson; DSB; A.J. Turner 10; Yonge. | suggest correction |
| BEHAIM, MORITZ | Austria, 1559, MIM | Quadrant with Sundial = FRA; Astronomical Clock, 1559 = Spitzer = Paul Garnier Coll. | Vienna. | Neumann 1 & 3. | suggest correction | |
| BEHAMB, MAURICUS | Germany, 1558, MIM | Evans thought that Behaim and Behamb were the same person; he said the town was Frankfort. | Frankfort. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| BEHRINGER | see Beringer. | suggest correction | ||||
| BEIGHTON, HENRY | England, 1687-1743, | designed and made an improved plane table; constructed an hodometer; F.R.S., 1720; engineer and land-surveyor; author. | Griff, Warwickshire; Chilversloton, near Nuneaton. | Taylor 1(550) and 2(9); DNB; Middleton 1. | suggest correction | |
| BEILBY 1 | England, c.1810, MIM PHIM | Universal Equatorial Sundial = Soth. 1/22/73; Universal Ring Sundial = WHI-1661; Sundial, circular, with lid = Soth. 4/29/77; Stick Barometer = D.(1973), Soth. 5/18/89 = Soth.-S 10/19/89. | see Richard Beilby; see Charles Beilby. | Bristol. | Bryden 9 and 16; Wynter 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BEILBY 2 | England, | see Proctor and Beilby. | Birmingham. | Bryden 9; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BEILBY, CHARLES | England, fl.1809-19, MIM OIM PHIM | Telescope, three-draw = Christie-SK 10/6/83. | T.C. | 2 Clare Street, Bristol (1814-19). | Bryden 9; RSW; Calvert 2; Crawforth 1. | suggest correction |
| BEILBY, R. AND C. | England, fl.1809-13, MIM OIM PHIM | Richard and Charles Beilby. | 2 Clare Street, Bristol. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| BEILBY, RICHARD | England, fl.1809-20, MIM OIM PHIM | see R. and C. Beilby. | 2 Clare Street, Bristol. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| BEILLY | misreading for Beilby. | suggest correction | ||||
| BEIPOLTH, JOHANN | see Johann Deilpolth. | suggest correction | ||||
| BEITELROCK, JOHANN | Germany, 1736, MIM | Astrolabe Clock, 1736 = Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague. | Augsburg. | Bruton. | suggest correction | |
| BEITENMAN, JOHN | USA, c.1775, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass = D.(1986). | Coffeen 12. | suggest correction | ||
| BEKA AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = K. and C. 3/28/73. | Norwich. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BELCHER AND BROTHERS | USA, c.1830, MIM | Gunter's Scales = MYS (2). | misreading for Belcher Brothers. | New York, N.Y. | DATM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BELCHER BROS. | USA, fl.1829-37, MIM | Gunter's Scales, wood = USNM, X. | New York, N.Y. | Bryden 9; USNM; Philip E. Stanley. | suggest correction | |
| BELCHER BROS. AND CO. | USA, c.1835, MIM | Gunter's Scale, wood = D.(1972). | New York, N.Y. | Moskowitz 104; DATM. | suggest correction | |
| BELCHER BROTHERS | USA, fl.1822-77, MIM | Gunter's Scales = PEA, D.(1979); Slide Rule, folding = D. (1972); Square, wood = Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. | Thomas, William and Charles Belcher. | New York, N.Y. | Moskowitz 103; Brewington 1; Philip E. Stanley; RSW; Bedini 8. | suggest correction |
| BELCHER, CHARLES, THOMAS AND WILLIAM | USA, fl.1837-43, MIM | rule makers; T. and W. Belcher and Co. may really be Thomas and William and Charles Belcher. | 17 Platt, New York, N.Y. (1837-43). | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BELCHER, T. AND J. | USA, | misreading, see T. and W. Belcher. | DATM. | suggest correction | ||
| BELCHER, T. AND W. AND C. | USA, fl.1824-26, MIM | Gunter Scale, wood = Maine Historical Society, Portland. | Thomas and William and Charles (or is the "C" for Co.?) Belcher. | New York, N.Y. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BELCHER, T. AND W., AND CO. | USA, fl.1825-26, MIM | rule makers; see T. and W. and C. Belcher. | 146 Division (1824); 141 Mulberry (1825-26); both in New York, N.Y. | USNM; Bedini 8. | suggest correction | |
| BELCHER, THOMAS | USA, fl.1823-29+, MIM | rule maker. | New York, N.Y. | Bedini 8. | suggest correction | |
| BELCHER, ZACHARIAH | England, c.1822, MIM | made wood and ivory rules. | 4 Knight Street, Sheffield. | Taylor 2(1485). | suggest correction | |
| BELKMEER, PETRUS | Holland, 1732, OIM | Microscope, 1732 = Optical Convention Cat., Leyden? | Enkhuisen. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| BELL, EDMOND | England, c.1704, MIM | apprenticed to John Wood 1 of the Clockmakers' Company on June 5, 1704. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BELL, H., AND CO. | England, PHIM | balance makers. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | ||
| BELL, HENRY | Scotland, fl.1856-81, NIM OIM | worked with Isaac Bell, 1860-62. | 48 Maxwell Street (1856-57); 50 Maxwell Street (1858-59); both in Glasgow. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | |
| BELL, I. AND H. | Scotland, fl.1860-62, NIM | Isaac and Henry Bell. | 54 St. Enoch Square (1860-61); 70 1/2 Great Clyde Street (1862); both in Glasgow. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | |
| BELL, ISAAC | Scotland, fl.1838-59, NIM | compass maker; see I. and H. Bell. | Delftfield Lane (1839-44); 16 York Street (1847-48); 50 Maxwell Street (1849-57); 52 Maxwell Street (1858-59); all in Glasgow. | Bryden 3.à | suggest correction | |
| BELL, JAMES | Scotland, fl.1836-61, OIM PHIM | after 1839 he is listed as a clock and machine maker. | 54 South Bridge Street, Edinburgh (1836-38). | Taylor 2(2073); Bryden 3; Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
| BELL, JOHN 1 | England, c.1667, MIM | admitted to the Clockmakers' Company in 1667. | London. | Taylor 1(310); Clay and Court; J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | |
| BELL, JOHN 2 | England, c.1699, MIM | apprenticed to Nathaniel Smith of the Clockmakers' Company on March 20, 1699. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BELL, JOHN 3 | England, 1710, MIM | may be John Bell 1. | London. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| BELLA, DELLA | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2). | Preston. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BELLANGER, P. | France, 1658, MIM | Instrument, 1658 = X. | Blois. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| BELLANI, ANGELO | Italy, c.1835, PHIM | Thermographs = FLO-1794 (1835), FLO-2025. | Bonelli 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BELLANI, ANGIOLO MARIA | Italy, 1786-52, PHIM | made barometers, thermometers and meteorological instruments. | Monza; Milan. | Brenni 1. | suggest correction | |
| BELLARMATUS, HIERONYMUS | France, 1541, MIM | Sundial, ivory, 1541 = Prince de Conti Coll, 1771. | 7° east magnetic deviation. | Blois. | Evans 1; Hellman; Hamilton 2; Le Monnier; Vivielle 2. | suggest correction |
| BELLATTI AND SON | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Newark. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BELLATTI, C. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Burton. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BELLATTI, L. 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | may be Louis S. Bellatti, which see. | Lincoln. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BELLATTI, L. 2 | England, c.1825, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2); Angle Barometers = D.(1982), D.(1973). | probably Lewis Bellatti; D.(1973) is signed "Bellatti of Grantham." | Grantham. | Goodison 1; Antiquarian Horology, Vol. 13, No. 3, March 1982; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BELLATTI, LEWIS | England, c.1822, OIM | optician; jeweler; may have sold or made barometers; see L. Bellatti 2. | High Street, Grantham. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BELLATTI, LOUIS S. | England, c.1856, PHIM | may be barometer maker; may be L. Bellatti 1. | 34 Steep Hill, Lincoln (1856). | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BELLEJEAN | France, MIM | Neuveville. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BELLET | France, fl.1790-1825, NIM | Repeating Circle, 1805 = CNAM; Borda Circle = FGM; Surveying Compass = Melun 4/24/83. | principal worker for Etienne Lenoir. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Italian Inventory; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BELLETTI, PAOLO | Italy, fl.1680-89, OIM | Telescope, 1680 = D.(1973); Telescopes, refracting = Waddesden Manor (1682), P.C. (1689). | Bologna. | Rizzo/Garisenda Antiquariato; G.L'E. Turner 30; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BELLHOUSE, E.T., AND CO. | England, PHIM | Force Pump = College of Technology, Manchester. | Eagle Foundry. | Manchester. | Lowery. | suggest correction |
| BELLI, GIUSEPPE | Italy, PHIM | invented and made hygrometers, electric machines, electric magnetic models; invented an improvement in the pneumatic pump. | Pavia. | Brenni. | suggest correction | |
| BELLIENI | France, c.1812, MIM SIM | Theodolite = Christie 6/7/72; Inclinometer, pocket = D.(1986); Telescopic Compass = P.C. | Nancy. | Coffeen 13; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BELLIENI, SCHIOVETTI | France, NIM OIM | Rhumb Line Finder = P.C. | optician; Belliéni. | Brest. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BELLING, J. | England, 18th Century, MIM | Ring Sundial = Soth. 2/28/80. | Fore Street, Bodmin. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BELLINGAM, JOHN R. | England, c.1675, OIM | member of the Spectaclemakers' Company; took apprentices. | Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | ||
| BELLINGER, CHARLES | England, c.1687, MIM | apprenticed to John Bellinger 1 of the Clockmakers' Company from date of indenture, Sept. 29, 1686, taken with a non-member of the Company. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BELLINGER, JOHN 1 | England, fl.1686-1720, MIM NIM | Rule, 1699 = P.C; Nocturnal, boxwood = Bonhams 3/11/77; Davis Quadrants = Whaling Museum, Nantucket, Mass., Christie-SK 11/27/86. | apprenticed by turnover to Robert Starr of the Clockmakers' Company on Aug. 14, 1677; free of the Company, July 5, 1686; took apprentices; rule made for Thomas Scalinger; nocturnal and quadrant signed "J. Bellinger". | Taylor 1(510); J. Brown 3; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BELLINGER, JOHN 2 | England, fl.1726-32, MIM | apprenticed to his father, John Bellinger 1, of the Clockmakers' Company on March 3, 1706; free of the Company, Jan. 17, 1726. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BELLINGER, JOHN 3 | England, c.1730, MIM | apprenticed to his father, John Bellinger 2, of the Clockmakers' Company on April 6, 1730. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BELLINGER, WILLIAM | England, c.1732, MIM | apprenticed to his father, John Bellinger 2, of the Clockmakers' Company on Oct. 9, 1732. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BELLISA, FRANCESCO | Italy, MIM | Calendar in clock case = TIM. | Aquila. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BELLONI, F. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BELLOTTI | variant spelling for Belotti. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BELLOTTI AND GUGERI | see Belotti and Gugeri. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BELLWORTH | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Phillips 11/16/76. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BELNET | France, c.1861, MIM | see Thuret et Belnet | Dijon. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BELOTTI | England, | see Gugeri and Belotti. | Taylor 2(2142); Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BELOTTI AND GUGERI | England, fl.1829-36, PHIM | Stick Barometers = X, Soth. 12/14/89; Wheel Barometer = X. | Andrew Gugeri; changed to Gugeri and Belotti after 1838; the stick barometer has only London as an address; the wheel barometer shows the Holborn, London address; made thermometers and looking glasses | 15 Upper Union Court, Holborn (1829); 16 Charles Street, Hatton Garden (1830-36); both in London. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BELOTTI, THOMAS | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 2/28/80. | St. Ives. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BELTRAMI, LUIGI | Italy, c.1800, MIM | made instruments devised by Carlo Castelli. | Milan. | Emil Offenbacher 22, 1970. | suggest correction | |
| BELTRAMI, MARTINI | Holland, c.1790, PHIM | Barometers = LEY; Thermometers = LEY. | Leeuwarden. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BELTRAMI, MARTINI, EN COMP. | Holland, c.1800, PHIM | made a mercury barometer, c.1800. | Leeuwarden. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BEMBO, PIETRO | Italy?, 1547, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, 1547 = X. | Tooley. | suggest correction | ||
| BEMBRIDGE, THOMAS | England, c.1683, MIM | apprenticed by turnover to Robert Starr of the Clockmakers' Company on Aug. 16, 1669; free of the Company on May 23, 1683. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BEMELMANS, NICOLAS | Austria?, c.1738, MIM | maker or dealer; supplied a large collection of instruments to Charles, Duke of Lorraine, Regent-Prince of Belgium. | Vienna? | Michel 14. | suggest correction | |
| BEMIS AND CALL CO. | England, c.1850, MIM | Bow Dividers, = D.(1971). | "Cast Steel." | Moskowitz 103. | suggest correction | |
| BEMIS, SAMUEL AMERICANUS | USA, 1790-1881, MIM SIM | Graphometer, 1810 and 1860 = Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn Mich. | Professor of History, Yale University; made clocks and watches; dentist. | Keene, New Hampshire (1806); Boston, Mass. (1817). | Smart 1; Price 2. | suggest correction |
| BENARD, F. | France, c.1600, | see Chauvin. | Paris. | Baillie 1; Britten. | suggest correction | |
| BENARD, JEHAN | France, 1611, MIM | Sundial in watch lid = BM. | Paris. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
| BENBRICKE, JAMES | England, c.1671, MIM | apprenticed by turnover to Hilkiah Bedford of the Clockmakers' Company on June 5, 1671. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BENBRIDGE | see Bembridge. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BENCI, CARLO | Italy, 1616-76, MIM | Pair of Globes, 1671 = X. | Tooley. | suggest correction | ||
| BENDON | England, PHIM | see Keyzor and Bendon. | Bell 2; Goodison 1; Moskowitz 114. | suggest correction | ||
| BENEDETTI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA | Italy, c.1574, MIM | invented an instrument, presumably to construct sundials; author. | Turin. | Schatzki, 1970. | suggest correction | |
| BENEEDEN | Denmark?, 1763, NIM | Octant, 1763 = Roussel Sale-81. | signed on front "Beneeden het Lohat" below cupid; marked "Jens Nickelsen" on mirror support; also marked "Capt. Cornelis Strop 1763." | Lohat. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BENELLI, F. | Italy, 1813, PHIM | Measure, 1813 = FLO-1429. | Bonelli 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BENER | see Benner. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BENER, PHILIPP JAKOB | Germany, fl.1582-1633, MIM | goldsmith; father of Johannes Benner; made pillar sundial signed "P.I.B.", 1629, at University Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden. | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2. | suggest correction | |
| BENETJINK AND CO. | England, c.1840, PHIM | Stick Barometer = K. and C. 9/29/76. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BENEVOLO | France, PHIM | Machine à Vapeur = D.(1966). | Bénévolo. | Passage de l'Hôtel Dieu 22, Lyon; Paris. | RSW; Brieux 3. | suggest correction |
| BENHAM, JOHN | England, 18th Century, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Collumpton. | Goodison 1; Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
| BENNECKE | Germany, 1792, MIM OIM SIM | Graphometer, 1792 = P.C. | optician; variant spelling is Benecke. | Berlin. | Daumas 1; Brieux 3. | suggest correction |
| BENNER | see Bener. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BENNER, JOHANNES | Germany, 1620-59+, MIM | Astrolabe Clock = Christie 6/20/74. | son of Philipp Jakob Bener, which see. | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BENNET 1 | England, fl.1785-1814, MIM SIM | Theodolite = Auction, 1803. | London. | Taylor 2(799). | suggest correction | |
| BENNET 2 | variant spelling for Bennett. | suggest correction | ||||
| BENNET, JOHN | England, c.1710, MIM SIM | Protractor = KEN; Compass = OXF; Circumferentor = NMM-T.22; Rule, ivory = Soth. 10/17/60-130. | sometimes spelt "Bennett"; T.C. at BM; member of the Spectaclemakers' Company. | London. | Taylor 1(556); Maddison 1; Dewhirst; Evans 1; Clay and Court; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BENNET, NEHEMIAH | USA, 1775, MIM SIM | Surveying Quadrant, 1775 = D.(1992); Alidade for plane-table, 1777 = USNM - 319076. | both instruments signed "N. Bennet"; see Noah Bennet. | Middleboro, Mass. | USNM; Bedini 1 and 8; Coffeen 36. | suggest correction |
| BENNET, NOAH | USA, 1777, MIM SIM | possibly Nehemiah Bennet. | Middleboro, Mass. | USNM; Bedini 1 and 8; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BENNET, THOMAS | England, fl.1775-94, MIM | made sandglasses. | 49 Wade Street (1775); Bridewell Lane (1793-94); both in Bristol. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| BENNETT 1 | Ireland, fl.1780-1800, MIM | Compass Sundial = OXF. | Cork. | Taylor 2(1082); Michel 3; Britten; Gunther 2; Dewhirst; Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| BENNETT 2 | Ireland, PHIM | Marine Barometer = GMM. | see F. Bennett; see J. Bennett 2. | Cork. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BENNETT, ANTHONY | England, c.1841, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | barometer signed "Bennett" plus address. | High Street, Kettering. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BENNETT, F. | Ireland, c.1815, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Soth. 7/21/83. | see Bennett 2. | Cork. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BENNETT, J. 1 | England, 1775, MIM | Sundial, round, 1775 = Soth. 2/28/80. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BENNETT, J. 2 | Ireland, c.1800, PHIM | Stick Barometer = D.(1987). | see Bennett 2. | Cork. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BENNETT, JOHN 1 | England, fl.1712-50?, MIM SIM | Theodolite = KEN. | apprenticed to his father, William Bennett, of the Clockmakers' Company; free of the Company on Sept. 29, 1712; took apprentices. | High Holborn, London. | Taylor 2(10); J. Brown 3; Clay and Court. | suggest correction |
| BENNETT, JOHN 2 | England, fl.1743-68, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | Circumferentors = ADL-M156, NMM-T.22, KEN, Christie-SK 3/31/83; Pantograph, 1767 = Burton Constable; Pair of Globes = Temple Newsham, Leeds; Telescope, double prism eyepiece = VCW; Theodolite = Soth. 12/19/66-67; Stick Barometer = WHI. | most instruments signed "J. Bennett"; made "Fowler's Sliding Rule and Halfpenny's Tangent Rule"; "Instrument maker to their Royal Highnesses William, Duke of Gloucester, Prince Henry and Prince Frederick"; T.C.; opposed Peter Dollond's patent in 1754; not a member of the Spectaclemakers' Company. | The Globe, Crown Court, between St. Ann's, Soho and Golden Square, London. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(332); Crawforth 1; Michel 3; Engelmann 1; E. Hall; Calvert 2; Maddison 1; C.N. Robinson; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BENNETT, JOHN 3 | England, c.1715, MIM | apprenticed to Richard Bennett 2 of the Clockmakers' Company on Oct. 10, 1715. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BENNETT, JOHN 4 | England, c.1733, MIM | apprenticed to William Bennett of the Clockmakers' Company; turned over to Richard Bennett 2 of the Clockmakers' Company; free of the Company on April 2, 1733. | Hatton Wall, St. Andrews Holborn, London. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | |
| BENNETT, JOHN 5 | England, c.1850, MIM | Stick Barometers = WHI, D.(1976), Soth. 10/19/87. | in the 1851 Great Exhibition, London. | 65 Cheapside, London. | G.L'E. Turner 24; Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BENNETT, JOHN 6 | England, fl.1731-59, MIM | John Cobham turned over to him, in the Clockmakers' Company on May 6, 1732; took eleven apprentices. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BENNETT, JOSEPH | England, c.1828, MIM | 133 Goswell Street and 10 E. Harding Street, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
| BENNETT, L. | England, fl.1799-1826, MIM | 26 Charles Street, Hatton Garden, London. | Taylor 2(1277); Dewhirst; Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | ||
| BENNETT, RICHARD 1 | England, c.1663, | apprenticed to John Blighton 1 or 2 of the Grocers' Company on March 2, 1663. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BENNETT, RICHARD 2 | England, fl.1715-29, MIM | apprenticed to his father, William Bennett, of the Clockmakers' Company on Sept. 29, 1707; free of the Company, July 4, 1715; took apprentices. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BENNETT, THOMAS 1 | Ireland, fl.1809-67, MIM NIM OIM | Stick Barometer = D.(1996). | T.C.; taken over by Reynolds and Wiggins, 1867. | Patrick Street (1809-12); 2 Patrick Street (1820); 65 Patrick (1824); 124 Patrick Street (1844-67); all in Cork. | Soth. 9/20/83-98; RSW; Morrison-Low and Burnett; AH Summer, 1996. | suggest correction |
| BENNETT, THOMAS 2 | England, fl.1832-40, MIM PHIM | T.C. | 162 Goswell Street, London. | O'Mara; Taylor 2(1777). | suggest correction | |
| BENNETT, WILLIAM | England, fl.1687-1733, MIM | apprenticed by turnover to John Brown 1 of the Clockmakers' Company on April 2, 1677; free of the Company, Sept. 29, 1687; took apprentices. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BENOIT FILS, JEAN | France, c.1800, MIM | constructor, technician, clockmaker; firm founded in 1791. | Besançon. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BENSON, FREDERICK | England, c.1796, | apprenticed to Anthony Oldiss Bancks in the Joiners' Company on Aug. 16, 1796. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BENSON, J.W. | England, PHIM | Barometer, pocket = K. and C. 12/12/73. | Ludgate Hill, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BENSON, JOHN | USA, fl.1793-98, OIM | made lenses; imported telescopes. | Birmingham, N.Y.; 12 Princess Street; 106 Pearl Street; 147 Pearl Street, at the Sign of the Green Spectacles; all in New York, N.Y. | Bedini 1 and 8. | suggest correction | |
| BENTLEY, G. | England, c.1850, MIM | Engineer's Set Square = D.(1975). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BENTLEY, THOMAS | England, c.1766, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Darlington. | Goodison 1; Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
| BENTWICKE, JAMES | England, c.1671, | Bentwicke's apprentice was turned over to Hilkiah Bedford of the Clockmakers' Company on June 2, 1671. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BENZONI, A. | England, c.1800, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = D.(1976). | Sheraton style. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERANGER, ANE. MAISON | France, c.1850, PHIM | Countertop Balance = Phillips 2/15/89. | (Ancienne Maison Beranger); "Usines de la Mulatière"; see Joseph Beranger et Cie. | Lyon. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERANGER, DAVID | Germany, 1806, MIM | Astronomical Sundial, 1806 = MERC-115; Cube Sundial = MERC-163. | surely misreading for David Beringer. | Hamilton 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERANGER, JOSEPH | France, 1847, PHIM | Béranger; invented a sensitive balance in 1847. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | ||
| BERANGER, JOSEPH, ET CIE. | France, c.1850, PHIM | in 1851 Great Exhibition, London. | 97 Rue Centrale, Lyons. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
| BERCINI | England, PHIM | see Wheelhouse and Bercini. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BERENDT | Holland, c.1777, MIM | Perpetual Calendar = X. | Groningen. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
| BERENGER | Germany, MIM | Cube Sundial = Drouot 4/26/67-42. | surely David Beringer. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERG, F.L. | Germany, MIM | Augsburg. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BERG, FRANS JOHAN | Sweden, 1825-98, MIM OIM SIM | Telescopic Level, 1850 = NOR; Alidade = STM; Dumpy Level = P.C. (1987). | business founded in 1850; made surveying, mining, and drawing instruments; T.C. | Kammakaregaten 19 (hörnet af Drottinggaten), Stockholm. | Pipping 1; Calvert 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERG, JOHANN DANIEL VOM | Germany?; Belgium?, c.1795, PHIM | Money Balances = Koller 11/17/75, Soth. 10/3/88; Balance = DRE. | is Daniel the surname? | in der Bergischen Haupstadt, Lennep, 179. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERGANER, MICHAEL | Austria, | misreading for Michael Bergauer. | MADEX-64. | suggest correction | ||
| BERGAUER | Germany, MIM | Quadrant = P.C.(1976). | modern English forgery. | signed Bergauer of Augsburg but was made in London. | Brieux 4. | suggest correction |
| BERGAUER, JOHANN MICHAEL | Austria, fl.1716-35, MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundials = BM-OA/384, NUR, INN, Beyer Coll., Diözesan Museum, Brixen, etc. | Ward thinks c.1690. | Innsbruck; Vienna. | Zinner 1; Price 3; Ward 4; Baillie 1; W. Eckhardt 3. | suggest correction |
| BERGAUER, MICHAEL | Austria; Germany, c.1671, MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundials = BMR, NMM, BM, OXF, INN (1671), NUR, HEI, USNM, PRA, etc. | some made in Innsbruck, others in Augsburg; probably invented this type of sundial. | Innsbruck; Augsburg. | Josten; Zinner 1; Michel 1; Dewhirst; Price 3; Ward 4; Bobinger 2; Chandler and Vincent. | suggest correction |
| BERGE | England, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Sextant = D.(1986). | many instruments are signed "Berge"; some are marked "Berge London late Ramsden" it is difficult to determine whether John or Matthew Berge made them. | London. | Goodison 1; Bedini 5; Wynter 1; Serrio; Moskowitz 105; Coffeen 14; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERGE, JOHN | England, 1742-1808, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Octant = D.(c.1976); Telescope = P.C.; Mirometer = WHI-399; Sextant, box = X; etc. | apprenticed to Peter Dollond of the Spectaclemakers' Company, 1756; free of the Company in 1773; worked for Dollond until 1790; Taylor and Wynter think John Berge was responsible for the instruments signed "late Ramsden"; Crawforth and Goodison think that Matthew Berge was the maker. | 59 St. Paul's Churchyard (1756); Johnson Court, Fleet Street (1791); 3 Crane Court, Fleet Street (1797-1803); 26 Lower Eaton Street, Pimlico (1805-07); all in London. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(571); Dewhirst; USNM; Court and von Rohr 3(193); Crawforth 6; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERGE, MATTHEW | England, fl.1802-51, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | wide range of instruments that may be seen in many museums, including sextants, surveying compasses, gunner's calipers, stick barometers, Gunter's scales, telescopes, etc. | above instruments all signed "M. Berge late Ramsden"; son or nephew to John Berge, which see; also see Berge; worked for Ramsden and succeeded him; may have been apprenticed to him; T.C. | 119 Piccadilly, London (c.1819). | Taylor 2(1083); Goodison 1; Dewhirst; Evans 1; Moskowitz 105; USNM; Crawforth 1 & 6; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERGEN | USA, | see Doty and Bergen. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BERGER | England, c.1800, | "late Ramsden"; misreading for Berge. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BERGER, C.L., AND SONS | USA, MIM SIM | Plane Table = Mystic Seaport, Conn.; Theodolite = P.C. | No. 37 Williams Street, Boston, Mass. | USNM; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERGER, L., AND SON | USA, MIM SIM | Field Theodolite = Christie 12/21/71. | Boston, Mass. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERGER, MATTHIAS | Germany, MIM | Astronomical Instrument = NOR. | Nürnberg. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERGERE, VAN DER | Holland, fl.1800-21, OIM | microscopes in 1800 and 1821 catalogues. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BERGERON | France, 1796, MIM | Ornamental Lathe, 1796 = P.C. (1988); Set of Turning Tools = Christie-SK 5/24/90. | à la Flotte d'Angleterre, Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERGNA, J. BAPTIST | England, fl.1830-40, PHIM | barometer maker; some barometers signed "J.B. Bergna", others "Baptist Bergna"; see Grassi, Bergna and Origoni. | St. Nicholas Churchyard, Newcastle. | Taylor 2(2074); Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERHAIM, MARTIN | see Martin Behaim. | Candee. | suggest correction | |||
| BERI AND PATERA | England?, c.1780, PHIM | Barometer = X. | Leek. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BERI, G. | England, c.1770?, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BERIDGE | England, c.1748, PHIM | made a certain type of thermometer; watchmaker. | Boston. | Chaldecott 2. | suggest correction | |
| BERIGER | see Beringer. | Bonelli 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BERINGER, A. | France, MIM | Sundial (dated 1708) = P.C. | Bedini thinks it is by D.B. Sheahan. | Dieppe. | Price 2; Bedini 6. | suggest correction |
| BERINGER, D. | Germany, MIM SIM | Surveying Instrument = OXF. | "D. Beringer fecit"; possibly David Beringer, which see. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERINGER, D., AND G.P. SEYFRIED | Germany, c.1800, MIM | Cube Sundials , wood and paper = BRS, FLO, MUN, WUR, LIE, KAS, UTR, Soth. 2/28/75; etc; Cube Sundial, silver = ADL-M327; etc. | David Beringer; the ADL sundial is mounted on a later base. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Engelmann 1; Michel 1; Chandler and Vincent 2; Price 2; de Rijk; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERINGER, DAVID | Germany, 1756-1821, MIM | many wood and paper cube and diptych sundials exist; some of the latter have two volvelles on the lid and sometimes are in French; compass sundials are at OXF, WHI and ADL, etc.; brass horizontal sundial is at OXF; a pair of globes, signed "David Beringer", are in a P.C.; we agree with Moskowitz that compass sundials signed "B." or "D.B." were made by Beringer; an artillery level is at NYC. | some of the sundials are signed "D. Beringer"; wooden diptychs often signed "Verfertigt von David Beringer." | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Price 3; Ward 4; Michel 1; Bonelli 1; Moskowitz 109; Monreal; Garcia 1; Engelmann 1; Hamilton; Wynter 1 and 2; USNM; Nachet; Chandler and Vincent 2; Bryden 16; ADL; Syndram; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERINGERUS, P. | Germany, 1750, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, 1750 = NMM-D.1. | signed "P. Beringerus Herzog Can:Soreth"; may be owner. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
| BERKETTS | see Becket. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BERLE, JEAN DE | France, c.1400, MIM | pupil of Johannes Fusoris. | Paris. | Poulle 1; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BERLINGER | Austria, post-1769, MIM | Astronomical Clock = P.C. | Vienna. | Tardy. | suggest correction | |
| BERNARD DE VERDUN | France, c.1250, | may have devised the torquetum. | Verdun. | A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BERNARD, DESIRE F. | France, c.1850, MIM | Desiré F. Bernard; in the 1851 Great Exhibition, London. | 30 rue des Maroursets, Paris. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
| BERNARDA | see Cermanati and Bernarda. | suggest correction | ||||
| BERNARDI, DANIEL | Italy, 1629, MIM | Cruciform Dial, 1629 = MADEX-80 = Prin Coll. = NMM-D.44. | Michel 1; Dewhirst; MADEX; NMM 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BERNARDI, N. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERNARDINUS | Italy, 1565, MIM | Astrolabe, 1565 = Museo Civico Malatestiano, Fano. | "Aurifex." | Italian Inventory. | suggest correction | |
| BERNARDUS | France, c.1680, MIM | Astronomical Compendia = OXF-B, Evans Coll. = D.(1988). | first name. | Maddison 1; D. Brieux 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERNASCHONI AND MONTHI | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X (2); Stick Barometers = X, Soth. 2/28/80. | one of the wheel barometers is signed "Barnaschoni and Monthi"; one of the stick barometers is signed "Bernaschoni and Monti." | Leicester. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERNASCHONI AND MONTI | Barometer=P.C. | see Bernaschoni and Monthi. | RSW; WEBDB. | suggest correction | ||
| BERNASCONE | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Merthyr. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERNASCONE, L. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie 4/19/78. | Sheffield. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERNASCONI | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-S 10/19/89. | see M. Bernasconi. | Leeds. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERNASCONI, A. 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Newcastle. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERNASCONI, A. 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-West Sussex 10/18/83. | "Warranted." | Boston. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERNASCONI, M. | England, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, Soth.-S 1/27/88, Soth.-S 7/17/96. | variant of M. Barnasconi? | Leeds. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERNHARDUS | France, c.1600, MIM | Sundial = Evans Coll. = OXF? | Dewhirst; Price 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BERNIE | France, MIM | Sundial, octagonal, small = Wray Sale-62. | probably Bernier. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERNIER | France, fl.1783-1820, MIM OIM SIM | Pantograph = Spitzer Sale-2870; Rules = MADEX-499, WHI, Roussel Sale; Sector = Soth. 10/17/60-134; Butterfield-type Sundials = P.C., D., Drouot 4/26/67-45, Libert et Castor 4/28/82, Drouot 4/7/87; Telescopic Quadrant = NAC; Folding Square = BIR; Protractor = VCW; Graphometers = Chayette 6/28/86, P.C. | probably successor to Langlois; WHI has 30 inches on one side, 80 cm. on the other. | au Niveau à la Sphère; en la Cité; both in Paris. | Daumas 1; Michel 1; Dewhirst; Nachet; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERNIERES, M. | France, c.1774, OIM | constructed a burning glass for M. Trulaine de Montigny of the Académie des Sciences, Paris. | Paris. | Spargo 1. | suggest correction | |
| BEROSSUS | c.300 B.C., MIM | invented an early sundial, the hemicycle. | Cousins. | suggest correction | ||
| BERQUEZ | England, c.1820, PHIM | Wheel Barometer and clock = Soth.-Chester 3/9/83. | Vere Street, Cavendish Square, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERQUIN, JEAN | France, 18th Century, MIM | Ring Sundials = WHI-733, McVitty Coll. | WHI is silver, 1650?, and with leather case. | Bordeaux. | Bryden 16; Hamilton 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERRICK, RALPH | England, c.1770, MIM | rule maker. | Queen Street, Wolverhampton. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| BERRINGER | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERRINGTON, JOHN | England, c.1822, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | signed "J. Berrington, Leicester." | High Street, Leicester. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BERRY 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Great Windmill Street, Hay Market, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERRY 2 | see Newton and Berry; see Newton Son and Berry. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BERRY 3 | England, c.1777, OIM PHIM | optician; succeeded by Matthew Wisker, a barometer maker. | Spurriergate, York. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERRY AND BERRY | England, post-1700, MIM | globe makers; William and E. Berry. | Holborn Court, London. | Taylor 1(331). | suggest correction | |
| BERRY AND MACKAY | Scotland, fl.1879-1975, NIM | Octants = Christie 3/31/83, FRK = RSM. | made clocks and watches; started out as James Berry and Alexander Spence Mackay, 1879-90; Mackay worked alone until his death in 1914; firm taken over in the 1940's by Walter Murray, who may have already been working for the firm; the firm closed in 1975 when Murray died. | Aberdeen. | Clarke et al; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERRY, A. | England, c.1830, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Bearne's 3/11/97. | Hertford. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERRY, D. 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Huntingdon. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERRY, D. 2 | England, c.1780, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Phillips 1/13/76. | Nottingham. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERRY, E. | see William Berry. | suggest correction | ||||
| BERRY, G., AND SON | England, NIM | Sextant = Soth. 12/15/78. | West Hartlepool. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERRY, GEORGE ALLAN | Scotland, fl.1857-86, NIM | son of James Berry; see James Berry and Son, 1857-64; was made a member of the Hammermen Incorporation in 1866. | Aberdeen. | Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
| BERRY, J. 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, Soth. 5/18/89. | Soth. signed "J. Berry Berwick St. John"; maybe J. Berry 2, 3 or 4 at different addresses. | 16 Berwick Street, Soho, London. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERRY, J. 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | may be J. Berry 1, 3 or 4 at different addresses. | 12 Little Chapple Street, Soho, London. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERRY, J. 3 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | may be same as J. Berry 1, 2 or 4 at different addresses. | 78 Wardover Street, Soho, London. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERRY, J. 4 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie 1/26/90. | may be J. Berry 1, 2 or 3 at different addresses. | 17 Noel Street, Soho, London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERRY, JAMES | Scotland, 1808-90, NIM OIM | Sextant = Christie-SK 5/17/78. | apprenticed to William Spark; admitted to the Hammermen, 1837; made clocks, watches and chronometers; took his son, George Allan Berry, as a partner in James Berry and Son, 1856-64; took Alexander Spence Mackay as partner in Berry and Mackay, 1879-1890; firm lasted until 1975. | 52 Castle Street (1835-52); 53 Marischal Street (1852); 88 Union Street (1853-56); all in Aberdeen. | Bryden 3; Clarke et al; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERRY, JAMES, AND SON | Scotland, fl.1857-65, NIM OIM | Sextant = Soth. 10/28/86. | James Berry and George Allan Berry, 1857-64; son worked alone, 1866-78. | 88 Union Street (1857-60); 29 Union Street (1861); 29 St. Nicholas Street (1862-64); 59 1/2 Marischal Street (1865); all in Aberdeen. | Bryden 3; Clarke et al; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERRY, JOH. | England, c.1836, MIM | 14 Jamaica Terrace, Limehouse, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
| BERRY, JOHN | England, fl.1738-65, PHIM | Angle Barometer = X. | The Dial near the Cross, Manchester. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERRY, T. | Scotland, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Christie-Glasgow 5/19/82 lot #36. | Aberdeen. | Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
| BERRY, WILLIAM | England, 1639-1718, MIM | apprenticed to Joseph Moxon of the Weavers' Company in 1656; free of the Company, 1664; globe maker; publisher; his grandson was William Watkins 1; some of the addresses probably the same place; partner with Robert Morden as Morden and Berry, (1669-70). | The Blue Anchor, Middle Row, Holborn, just outside Holborn Bars (1669); The Globe near the New Exchange on the north side of the Strand (1674); at the Globe between Charing Cross and Whitehall (1680); The Globe, Craggs Court near Charing Cross (1681-1700); Holborn Court, between Holborn and Gray's Inn; Sign of the Globe, between Charing Cross and Whitehall; all in London. | Taylor 1(331); Evans 1; Tooley; Tyacke 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERSELIUS, HADRIAN AMEROCCIO | Italy, 1522, MIM | Astrolabe, 1522 = Fry Coll. | Price thought the astrolabe was c.1380; ICA-202; owner? | Michel 2; Price 1; ICA 2; Gunther 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERT, PAUL | France, 1767, MIM | Globe Sundials, stone, 1767 = MADEX-173 & -174 = NMM-Caird; Globe Sundials, ivory, 1767 = Drouot Richelieu 4/28/88. | Michel 1; Dewhirst; NMM 2; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BERTHAUD, L'ABBE | France, MIM SIM | Circumferentor = P.C.(1965). | l'Abbé Berthaud. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERTHAUX | France, MIM | Celestial Globe = CNAM-7432; Armillary Sphere = CNAM-7444. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4. | suggest correction | ||
| BERTHELEMY, A. | France, 19th Century, MIM OIM | Telescopic Level = La Rochelle 7/16/83. | Berthélémy; succeeded by A. Lepetit. | Paris. | Christie 12/18/74; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERTHERAN, M. | France, c.1560, MIM | Sundial in base of clock = Soth.-NY 6/22/88. | needle in compass box probably is a replacement. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERTHET | France, c.1750, NIM | mounted a micrometer on a quadrant. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BERTHET, ANDRE | France; Portugal, 1774, MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundial, 1774 = Ineichen 10/18/74; Heliochronometer, case = LIM. | "Horloger"; see Berthet; André Berthet. | Lisbon. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERTHOUD, FERDINAND | Switzerland; France, 1729-1807, MIM NIM | Tide Timer, 1788 = AMST; Celestial Globe on clock = Hertford House, London. | Paris. | USNM; Mörzer Bruyns 1; Grimaldi (975); Cajori; J.A, Bennett 2. | suggest correction | |
| BERTHOUD, PIERRE-FREDERIC | France, c.1750, MIM | Sundial = Musée de la Chaux-des-Fonds. | Pierre-Frédéric Berthoud. | Couvet. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BERTHROUD | France, | misreading for Berthoud. | Grimaldi (975). | suggest correction | ||
| BERTIE, GEORGE | USA, fl.1807-08, MIM | Georges Street, Baltimore, Md. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BERTIN, JEAN | France, c.1830, PHIM | Steam Apparatus = ADL-M412. | "Bertin inv. No. 175." | Engelmann 1; Michel 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERTINI, D. | Italy, 1796, PHIM | Electric Machine, 1796 = Lycée, Lucca. | Italian Inventory. | suggest correction | ||
| BERTINI, MICHELE | Italy, c.1780, MIM | Universal Equatorial Sundial, 1780 = WHI. | Bryden 16; Price 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BERTOLA, ANTONIO BARTOLOMEO | Italy, c.1763, MIM OIM | made astronomical instruments. | Morpurgo 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BERTONI, ANGIOLO | Italy, fl.1850-61, OIM | Florence. | Brenni 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BERUCKER | Germany, c.1768, OIM | made solar microscopes. | Nürnberg. | Clay and Court. | suggest correction | |
| BERVILLE, MATTHIEU | France, c.1690, MIM | Bloud-type Sundials = Wray Sale-138, D.(1964). | Dieppe. | Michel 1; Dewhirst; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BERZELIUS, JONS JACOB | Sweden, 1779-1848, MIM | Baron Jöns Jacob Berzelius; chemist; secretary to the Academy of Sciences; invented a slide rule for atomic weights, c.1830. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BESANCENOT | France, 1759, MIM | Sundial, oval, 1759 = NAC. | Besançenot. | Is-sur-Tille. | Michel 3; Nachet. | suggest correction |
| BESERGA | England, | see Monti and Beserga. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BESNOS | England, c.1849, MIM | Armillary Sphere = CNAM. | misreading for Desnos. | Paris. | Grimaldi(991). | suggest correction |
| BESOZZI, B. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, Christie-SK 10/20/89. | the barometer at Christie was marked "Shaftsbury." | Weymouth; Shaftsbury. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BESSARD, TOUSSAINCTS DE | France, c.1574, MIM | invented a canometer to find the meridian and a micrometer for directional measurements; author. | Rouen. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BESSLER, JOHANN ERNEST ELIAS | Germany, 1680-1745, PHIM | made a "perpetuum mobile"; called himself "Orffyrius." | Kassel? | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BESSON, JACQUES | France, c.1567, | author; designed instruments for astronomy, surveying and navigation including the "cosmolabe." | Paris. | O'Neal; Poggendorf; Dawson 216, 1971. | suggest correction | |
| BEST, ROBERT | USA, fl.1811-31, MIM PHIM | repaired philosophical and mathematical instruments; watchmaker. | Cincinnatti, Ohio. | "Antiques", July, 1974. | suggest correction | |
| BESTER, OWEN HIBBARD | USA, 1809-57, MIM OIM PHIM | Washington, D.C. | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| BETALLI | France, c.1800, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = CNAM. | same as Christophe Bettally. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction |
| BETTALLY, CHRISTOPHE | France; England, fl.1770?-88, PHIM | Wheel Barometer and Thermometer = Bute Coll. (1787) = D. (1967); Stick Barometer = X; Vacuum Pump = FLO-1537. | surely same as Betalli; stick barometer is signed "Bettally London"; other signed "C. Bettally fecit London 1787"; T.C.; made physical instruments in glass. | Paris; 1 Charlotte Street, Pimlico (1787); 292 Oxford Street, opposite Stratford Place (1788); both in London. | Goodison 1 and 5; Bonelli 1. | suggest correction |
| BETTALLY, JOSEPHE | France, fl.1768-71, PHIM | Wheel Barometer, 1771 with a Thermometer, 1768 = Christie 6/22/89. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BETTESWORTH, J. | England, c.1800, MIM | succeeded by William Garrard. | The Naval Academy, Ormond House, Paridise Row, Chelsea, London. | Taylor 2(838); NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
| BETTINI, MARIO | Italy, 1582-1657, MIM | invented instrument for tracing the meridian. | Bologna. | Boffito; Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
| BETTS, JOHN | England, fl.1839-63, MIM | Globe, portable, 1850 = X. | publisher. | 115 Strand; 7 Compton Street Brunswick Square; both in London. | Taylor 2(2075); Tooley. | suggest correction |
| BETTS, THOMAS | England, c.1818, MIM | rule maker. | Inge Street, Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| BEUCKEL | 1763, MIM | Diptych Sundial, wood, 1763 = P.C. | date could be 1768. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BEUERLEIN, JOACHIM | misreading for Joachim Deuerlin. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BEVAN, BENJAMIN | England, fl.1804-38, MIM | engineer; modified the Dunn-type accounting slide rule in 1822; invented a self-registering rain-gauge. | Leighton Buzzard, Bushey Heath. | Taylor 2(1084); Delehar 2 and 9. | suggest correction | |
| BEVAN, E. | England, PHIM | Marine Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BEVAN, SYLVANUS | England, c.1817, | invented an improved slide rule. | Taylor 2(1279); G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | ||
| BEWTON, ARNOLD | England?, 1865, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, 1865, on stand = Lesieur et Le Bars, Le Havre 7/9/90. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BEYER, JOHANN | Germany, 1673-1751, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1718 = KAS. | Hamburg. | Zinner 1; Tooley. | suggest correction | |
| BEYERINCK | Holland, fl.1829-45, OIM | Telescope = LEY. | Leiden. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BEYSER, JEAN-DAVID | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundials = OXF, MEM; Augsburg-type Sundials = Spaulding Coll., P.B. 1/22/54-55, OXF; Sundials, horizontal = OXF, CLU, USNM, MERC-49 (silver), Schuhmann Sale-134, Lempertz 6/14/76; Perpetual Calendars = D.(1972), Soth. 3/27/72. | D. calendar is in lid of case of L.T.M. sundial. | Mannheim. | Maddison 5; Zinner 1; Michel 1 and 3; Daumas 1; Hamilton 1 & 2; Wynter and Turner; USNM; Dewhirst; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BEZARD | France, c.1769, OIM | optician; lens maker. | Quai de l'Horloge, Paris (1769). | Daumas 1; Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHETTI, I. | France, c.1850, NIM | Hadley Quadrant = NMM-S.189; Octant = Christie-SK 10/23/87. | T.C. | 1 rue Beauvais, Marseilles. | NMM 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BIANCHI 1 | Holland, fl.1740-78, PHIM | made barometers and thermometers. | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1; Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X; Stick Barometer = X. | probably George Bianchi. | Ipswich. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BIANCHI 3 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Manchester. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI 4 | France, 18th Century, MIM SIM | Graphometer = D.(1980). | rue de Coq, St. Honoré 11, Paris. | Coffeen I; Moskowitz 120. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI AND CO. | Holland, pre-1793, MIM OIM PHIM | made solar microscopes, pumps, etc.; by 1793 owners of a fancy-goods shop. | Kalverstraat over de Gapensteeg, Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2; Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI AND PRIMAVESI | Holland, PHIM | Barometer = LEY. | Amsterdam. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI AND SONS | France, 1831, MIM | worked in 1831. | Paris. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI, A., AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-S 10/19/89. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BIANCHI, B. 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Portsmouth. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI, B. 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Tunbridge Wells. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI, B. 3 | France; Italy?, c.1820, PHIM | see Fioruzzi e Bianchi. | Paris; Piacenza? | Brenni 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI, BARTHELEMY | NIM | Sextant = CNAM-6692. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4. | suggest correction | ||
| BIANCHI, CAMPORINO | Belgium, NIM | Spyglass, ivory = Soth. 12/13/65-95. | Brussels. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI, F., AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Leicester. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI, G. 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X; Stick Barometer = X. | could be either G. Bianchi 2 or 3 or George Bianchi. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI, G. 2 | Scotland, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Edinburgh. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI, G. 3 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 7/16/76. | Windsor. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI, GEORGE | England, fl.1805-16, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, Christie-SK 5/8/86; Stick Barometer = X. | all signed "G. Bianchi Ipswich." | St. Clements Street (1805-08); Westgate Street (1809-16); both in Ipswich. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BIANCHI, P. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X; Barometer = Soth. 2/4/77. | wheel marked "Lane End"; other marked "Blandford." | Lane End, Blandford. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BIANCHI, PRIMAVESI AND CO. | Holland, c.1771, OIM | made optical instruments. | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHI, V. | Ireland, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, D.(1976), Christie-SK 10/20/89. | the barometer at Christie's is marked "Belfast." | Dublin; Belfast. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BIANCHII, FILIPPO E XAVIER DI | Italy, fl.1764-66, MIM PHIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundials = DEU, KEN-1923/404; Equatorial Sundials = VEN (1764), Soth. 5/19/96-46 (1754); Universal Equatorial Sundial, No. 3, 1764 = P. and S. 3/20/96; Air Pump, No. 93, 1766 = PRA. | "Filippo and Xavier Fratelli di Bianchii"; also spelled "Bianchy." | Venice. | Evans 1; Michel 3; Czech. Inventory; D. Bachman (1983); Earle; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BIANCHINI, ANTONIO | Italy, 1564, MIM SIM | Surveying Sector, with dials, 1564 = FLO-2511. | see A.B. 1; clockmaker. | Venice. | Bonelli 1; Michel 2; Price 2. | suggest correction |
| BIANCHINI, FRANCESCO | Italy, 1662-1729, MIM | inventor or maker. | Verona. | Hamilton 2. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHINI, P. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = D.(1972). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BIANCHY 1 | Austria, 1767, PHIM | Thermometer, 1767 = X. | Vienna. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHY 2 | France, 1785, PHIM | made physical apparatus. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHY 3 | Holland, c.1790, PHIM | made barometers. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BIANCHY 4 | see Bianchi. | suggest correction | ||||
| BIANCHY, DI | MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundial = P.C. | probably Filippo e Xavier Fratelli di Bianchii, which see. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BIANCHY, R. | France, c.1785, PHIM | Barometer = CNAM. | Rue St. Honoré No. 252, Paris. | Middleton 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIANELI | England, 19th Century, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Phillips 9/10/86. | Ipswich. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BICKERTON, JOHN | England, c.1735, MIM | Samuel How turned over to him as an apprentice; may have been a member of the Clockmakers' Company. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BIDAULT, C. | France, 1650, MIM | Equatorial Sundial, case, 1650 = Evans Coll. = OXF; Table of Latitudes = Evans Coll. | au Palais des Galleries, quai de l'Horloge, Paris. | Evans 1; Dewhirst; Nachet; Price 2; Britten; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BIDAULT, JACQUES | France, post-1762, MIM | Garden Sundial = Picard, Drouot Richelieu, Dec. 11, 1991. | perhaps related to C. Bidault, which see; apprenticed to Clerget. | Quay de l'Horloge, Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BIDDELL, JONAS | England, c.1756, | apprenticed to John Farmer 2 in the Grocers' Company on Nov. 2, 1756. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BIDDLE | USA, pre-1776, OIM | repaired telescope now at Library Company, Philadelphia, Pa. | Philadelphia, Pa. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BIDDLE, OWEN | USA, 1737-1799, MIM | clockmaker; made a planetarium. | North Ward, Philadelphia; Chester County; both in Pa. | Bedini 1 and 8;; USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BIDER, FRANCIS | England, 1716, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, 1716 = OXF-Evans. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BIDLAKE, JAMES 1 | England, 1767-1805, MIM | also made clocks and watches. | 31 Minories, (until 1782); 16 Sun Street, Bishopsgate Without (1799-1805); both in London. | Taylor 2(572). | suggest correction | |
| BIDLAKE, JAMES 2 | England, fl.1820-27, MIM | watch and clockmaker; son of James Bidlake 1. | 48 (or 8) Chiswell Street, London. | Taylor 2(1489). | suggest correction | |
| BIDSTRUP, JESPER | Denmark; England; Denmark, fl.1762-1802, MIM OIM PHIM | Telescopes = ROS, Soth. 4/27/64-140, D., AUI, Videnskabs- historisk Museum, Aarhus; Mechanical Powers Apparatus = Sor° Akademi, Sor°. | worked first with Nairne and Blunt, 1788; by 1793 was working by himself; had a catalogue; appointed "Royal City Mechanicus" upon his return to Copenhagen. | Copenhagen; 36 St. Martin's Street, Leicester Square, London (1793); Copenhagen. | Brieux 3; Chaldecott 3; Taylor 2(438); Dewhirst; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BIE, C. DE | Holland, c.1689, NIM | Magnetic Compass = D.(1986). | compass maker. | The Hague. | Schück; Coffeen Z. | suggest correction |
| BIEHELER, LANDELINUS | Germany, fl.1781-84, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1781 = FRE; Terrestrial Globe, 1784 = FRE. | Freiburg. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIENNAIS, MARTIN GUILLAUME | France, 1764-1843, MIM | Instrument Set in travel case = Musée Carnavalet; Rule, folding, mother-of-pearl = D. | "orfèvre de Leurs Majestés Imperiales et Royales"; "Me. Tabletier ébeniste"; travel case belonged to Napoleon; rule from travel case of the Duchess d'Otrante; made magnificent traveling cases. | au Singe violet, rue St.-Honoré, No. 283, Paris (1809-19). | "Connaissance des Arts", Oct., 1980; Versailles 11/19/78; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BIENVENU | France, c.1775, PHIM | made physical apparatus. | 18, rue de Rohan, Paris. | Daumas 1; Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| BIETTE | France, c.1820, OIM PHIM | Telescope = P.C. (1973); Marine Barometer = Drouot Richelieu 4/28/88. | Lyon. | Troadec; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BIFEZZI, G. | Italy, 1835, MIM | Telemeter, 1835 = FGM. | Naples. | Italian Inventory. | suggest correction | |
| BIGAS | England, PHIM | Hydrometer = A-P 3/15/76. | "Patented". | Liverpool. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BIGG, BENJAMIN | England, c.1679, MIM | apprenticed by turnover to Robert Cooke of the Clockmakers' Company on Feb. 3, 1679. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BIGGS, B. | England, c.1800, NIM | Octant = P.C.; Sextant = ADL-A249. | Swansea; Cardiff. | Taylor 2(1085); ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BIGGS, EDMUND | England, c.1695, MIM | apprenticed to John Bellinger 1 of the Clockmakers' Company on Dec. 12, 1695. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BIGGS, SAMUEL | England, c.1752, | apprenticed to John Urings 2 in the Grocers' Company on March 9, 1752. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BIGGS, THOMAS | England; USA, fl.1785-1822, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Hadley Quadrant, 1785 = Virgina Historical Society, Richmond, Va.; Octant, 1792 = P.C. | T.C. in Adams' quadrant; apprenticed to Benjamin Condy, up to 1776; soldier, 1776-1781; worked in New York for eight years; returned to Philadelphia; succeeded Benjamin Condy in 1792; made and dealt in instruments. | 32 Well-Fleet Street, London; Philadelphia, Pa.; No. 8 Water Street; 60, facing Beekman's Slip (1786); 32 Wall Street, near the Coffee House; both in New York, N.Y.; 81 South Front Street (1792); 85 South Front Street (1801-06): at the Sign of the Sextant (1815), 66 South Front Street (1807-21); all in Philadelphia, Pa. | Bedini 1 and 8; Smart 1; Gillingham; USNM; D.J. Warner 8; DATM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BIGNELL | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIGOT, E. | French Guiana, MIM | Cruciform Sundials = MERC-14 (176)= WHI, ADL-DPW47. | may be one sundial, Bryden 16 does not show it, although Hamilton stated that it was sold to Whipple. | Cayenne. | Hamilton 1 and 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BIHLER, JOHANN PHILIP | Germany, c.1750, MIM | Equatorial Sundial = Huelsmann Coll. | hour-plate is star-shaped; fitted case. | Augsburg. | Syndram. | suggest correction |
| BILD, VEIT | Germany, 1484-1529, MIM | astronomer; sundial maker. | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2. | suggest correction | |
| BILDT, BAUKE EISMA VAN DER | Holland, 1753-1831, OIM | Telescopes = LEY, LOS, UTR, Eisinga's House, Franeker, Bom Auctions 1906 & 1910. | succeeded his great-uncle, Jan van der Bildt 1, c.1791. | Franeker. | Rooseboom 1; Mörzer Bruyns 2; Daumas 1. USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BILDT, JOHANNES VAN DER 1 | Holland, 1709-91, OIM | Telescopes = ZUR, UTR; LEY, Eisinga's House, Franeker, Dr. Coopman's House, Franeker (No. 368), LOS, TEY, P.C., Frisian Maritime Museum, etc. | worked with his two sons; his great-nephew, Bauke Eisma van der Bildt succeeded to the business c.1791; full name was Jan Pytters van der Bildt; taught in high school in Franeker. | Franeker. | Rooseboom 1; Daumas 1; Zinner 1; G.L'E. Turner 28; Mörzer Bruyns 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BILDT, JOHANNES VAN DER 2 | Holland, 1736-1779, OIM | Telescopes = LEY, AMST, Eisinga's House, Franeker. | son of Jan van der Bildt 1. | Franeker. | Rooseboom 1; Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BILDT, LUBBERTUS VAN DER | Holland, 1738-80, OIM PHIM | Instruments = LEY, UTR (Physics Dept), Eisinga"s House, Franeker. | Franeker. | Rooseboom 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BILLAUX L'AINE | France, c.1787, PHIM | made physical apparatus; also spelled Billeau and Billiaux; Billaux l'Aîné. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| BILLIAUX | France, c.1782, PHIM | see Greppin et Billiaux. | Paris. | A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BILLING, JOSEPH | England, c.1830, OIM | 14 Maryland Street, Birmingham. | Taylor 2(1778). | suggest correction | ||
| BILLING, R. | England, c.1703, MIM | bookseller with G. Briant, may have been instrument makers. | at the King's Head, Cornhill, London. | Taylor 1(536). | suggest correction | |
| BILLINGHURST, ANTHONY | England, c.1672, MIM | apprenticed by turnover to Hilkiah Bedford of the Clockmakers' Company on July 1, 1672. | J. Brown 3; A.J. Turner 9. | suggest correction | ||
| BILLON | France, 1787, MIM | made instrument to draw ellipses. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BINDA 1 | France, MIM | Cannon Sundials = NOR (2). | Marseilles. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BINDA 2 | France, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Versailles 4/17/83. | "Opticien". | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BINDA, GIOVANNI | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = D.(1973). | York. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BINGHAM | England, c.1825, | Captain, R.N.; invented a perpetual log. | 22 Arundel Street, Strand, London. | Taylor 2(1779). | suggest correction | |
| BINGHAM, CHARLES | England, fl.1808-18, MIM | Table of Equation of Time, silver = BM-1897/3/15-2. | signed "C. Bingham"; Price thought London and 18th Century; made sundials. | Ann Street, Birmingham. | Taylor 2(1779a); Bryden 9; Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction |
| BINGLEY, WILLIAM, AND SON | England, 1808-18, PHIM | made plates for batteries and piles. | Bishopgate Street, Islington, Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| BIOLA, B. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Cambridge. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIOLO, B. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Norwich. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BION FILS | France, | son of Nicholas Bion. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BION, L. | MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, case = Soth. 5/19/86-64. | possibly Nicholas Bion. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BION, NICHOLAS | France, 1652-1733, MIM | his wide range of very well made instruments is illustrated in his book of 1709 on the construction and use of mathematical instruments; his production was very large and examples can be seen in numerous museums. | his book was translated into English in 1723 by Stone, and into German in 1717 by Doppelmayer; "Ingénieur du Roi pour les Instruments de Mathématique"; T.C.; Lordelle was successor. | quay de l'Horloge du Palais à l'enseigne du Soleil d'or (1699-1702 and 1708); au Quart de Cercle Géométrique sur le quay de l'orloge du Palais (1704); both in Paris. | Daumas 1; Michel 1 and 2; Maddison 1 and 5; Josten; Bonelli 1; Price 3; Ward 4; NMM 2; USNM; Wynter 1; Hamilton 2; Tooley; Dewhirst; Moskowitz 109; Calvert 2; Engelmann 1; DSB; J.A. Bennett 2; Bryden 16; ADL; Syndram; Nachet; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BIRCH, WYRLEY | England, MIM | Vertical Plate Dial = Evans Coll.= OXF. | Evans 1; Dewhirst. | suggest correction | ||
| BIRD, JOHN | England, 1709-76, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | wide range of instruments that may be seen in many museums including miniature sextant, ADL-A288, mural quadrants at Technical Museum, Milan and NMM (1750), theodolite at Palermo Observatory, meridian telescope at MLL, stick barometer and thermometer at Herschel Home Museum, Bath; etc. | apprenticed to Jonathan Sisson 2 in 1740; worked for him and George Graham; author; last great instrument maker to divide his scales by hand; T.C.; opposed Peter Dollond`s patent. | Durham (1709-40); Sea Quadrant, Court Gardens; Sea Quadrant near the New Exchange Buildings (1748-63); both in Strand, London. | Taylor 2(232); Goodison 1; Middleton 1; Maddison 1; Mörzer Bruyns 1; Stimson 2; Moskowitz 4 & 7; USNM; King 1; ADL; RSW; Daniel; Pipping 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; Garcia 1; DNB; DSB; J.A. Bennett 2; Crawforth 1; de Rijk; Coffeen 11; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction |
| BIRD, THOMAS | England, c.1822, OIM | High Street, Sheffield. | Taylor 2(1490); Dewhirst. | suggest correction | ||
| BIRDSTRUP, J. | misreading for Jesper Bidstrup. | Taylor 2(438); Dewhirst; Chaldecott 3; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BIRKHEAD, JOHN | England, c.1722, MIM | apprenticed to Joseph Smith 1 of the Clockmakers' Company on July 2, 1722. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BIRNIE, JOHN | Ireland, fl.1775-85, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial = Bigger Coll. | clockmaker. | Templepatrick, Co. Antrim. | Bigger; Baillie 1. | suggest correction |
| BISCHOFF, J.P. | Germany, fl.1780-90, MIM | Heliochronometer = Huelsmann Coll.; Instrument = DEU. | Ansbach. | Syndram; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BISHOP 1 | England?, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = APS. | London? | Multhauf 1. | suggest correction | |
| BISHOP 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | see John Bishop. | Sherborne. | Goodison 1; Baillie 1. | suggest correction |
| BISHOP, JAMES | Scotland, c.1794?, PHIM | Stick Barometers = X, Christie-SK 5/15/96. | clockmaker; X instrument signed "Jas. Bishop Edinburgh"; Christies signed "Jas. Bishop Musselburgh." | Edinburgh. | Goodison 1; Baillie 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BISHOP, JOAQUIM | USA, fl.1845-57, MIM NIM PHIM | made philosophical and chemical instruments. | Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BISS, JOHN | England, c.1746, | apprenticed to John Farmer 2 in the Grocers' Company on Oct. 14, 1746. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BISSAKER, ROBERT | England, fl.1642-54, MIM | Slide Rule, wood, 1654 = KEN. | made shipbuilder's rule. | Ratcliff over against the Red Lyon Tavern, London. | Bryden 9; Taylor 1(200); Dewhirst; Daumas 1; Clay and Court; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction |
| BISSEKER | see Bissaker. | suggest correction | ||||
| BITHRAY, STEPHEN | England, fl.1827-60, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie-SK 1/22/88; Stick Barometers = X, Heathcote Ball 12/14/90, Phillips 10/5/76; Telescopes = D.(1982), Soth.-West Sussex 6/21/83; Compass Sundial = KEN-1947-280; Sextant with Telescope = Soth. 11/13/61-70; Universal Equatorial Sundial, case = Soth. 3/25/86. | also made microscopes; "Bithray successor to J. Smith, Royal Exchange, London." | North Piazza (or North Gate), 29 Royal Exchange, London. | Taylor 2(1491); Goodison 1; Dewhirst; Clay and Court; Lake Forest, Ill. Antique Show, June 1982; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BITTERLIN | Germany, MIM | Compass = Strasbourg. | Colmar. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| BIZOT, J.L. | France, 1702-81, MIM | Vertical Dial = House, Faubourg Tarragnoz, Besançon, 1757; Floor Dial = Madeleine Church, Besançon. | Bizot was counselor to the Presidial of Besançon; vertical dial was destroyed in 1880. | Besançon. | Gatty; COMP Vol. 1, No. 2. | suggest correction |
| BLACHFORD AND CO. | England, NIM | probably Robert and William Blachford. | Minories, London. | Taylor 2(1086). | suggest correction | |
| BLACHFORD AND IMRAY | England, fl.1836-42, NIM OIM PHIM | Gunter Rule, sliding = D.(1980); Wheel Barometer= Christie-SK 5/15/96. | Robert Blachford and James Imray were partners, 1836-42. | 116 Minories; Navigation Warehouse; both in London. | Taylor 2(1086); Brewington 1; O'Mara; Moskowitz 120; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLACHFORD, ROBERT | England, fl.1804-42, NIM OIM | Telescope = PEA; Sextant = D.(1989). | signed "Blachford"; worked with William Blachford at the Warehouse in the Minories; it was Blachford and Co. at Leadenhall Street; James Imray joined him in 1836. | Navigation Warehouse, Little Tower Hill (1804-20); 137 Minories 1805; 114 Minories (1810-17); 79 Leadenhall Street (1821-25); 116 Minories (1836-40); all in London. | Taylor 2(1086); Brewington 1; Moskowitz 120; O'Mara; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLACHFORD, WILLIAM | England, c.1830, OIM | worked with Robert Blachford in the Minories; perhaps Blachford and Co. | Minories, London. | Taylor 2(1086). | suggest correction | |
| BLACKBURN | England, | see Moffett and Blackburn; T.C. | Calvert 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BLACKBURN, CUTHBERT | England, fl.1847-48, PHIM | see Johnson and Blackburn; barometer and thermometer maker. | 34 Hatton Garden (1847-48); 7 Alfred Street, City Road (1848); both in London. | Goodison 1; Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
| BLACKBURNE, R. | England, c.1850, NIM | Mariner's Journalets = P.C.(1986), D.(1986). | plotting device; D. also marked "aBn.", letters being in reverse. | London. | Multhauf 3; Coffeen 12. | suggest correction |
| BLACKIE | England, c.1825, OIM | microscope maker. | Clay and Court. | suggest correction | ||
| BLACKIE, WILLIAM | Scotland, fl.1834-38, OIM | made jewel lenses for microscopes. | Edinburgh. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | |
| BLACKWELL, J. | England, c.1820, OIM | Telescope = Frau Dr. Gustav Bloch Coll., Vienna. | watchmaker. | 43 Plumben Street, City Road, London. | Britten; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLACKWOOD, W. AND J.T. | England, NIM | Octant = Christie 3/29/60-9. | North Shields. | Morrison-Low 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLADEL, JOSEPH | Germany?, 18th Century, MIM | Crescent Sundial = ZAG. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BLADO- | England, c.1800, NIM | name appears on a Hadley's quadrant shown on Thomas Swann's T.C.; may be owner or maker. | Crawforth 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BLADON | see Bleyghton. | Taylor 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BLAEU, WILLEM JANSZOON | Holland; Italy, 1571-1638, MIM | he made many celestial and terrestrial globes of different sizes including a 67.7 cm. celestial globe, 1640 = ADL-M440, a printed astrolabe, telluriums to be found at LEY, BAU, WOL, KAS and AMST, etc.; a mural quadrant at LEY. | pupil of Tyche Brahe on Hven; designed a Copernican armillary sphere; dated globes range from 1602-40. | Alkmaar; Amsterdam; Venice. | Koman; Rooseboom 1; Zinner 1; Stevenson; Gunther 1; Bonelli 1; Michel 2; Daumas 1; Belgian and Italian Inventories; Millburn 5; Wynter 1; Mörzer Bruyns 1 and 2; NMM 2; DSB; ADL; T. Campbell; Yonge; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLAGRAVE, JOHN | England, b.1558? d.1612, | designed many fine astronomical and surveying instruments, including his Mathematical Jewel, Uranical Astrolabe, three-legged compass, running staff, armillary sphere, etc; author. | Reading. | Taylor 1(52); Dewhirst; Gunther 1 and 4; Michel 1, 2 and 3; Engelmann 1; D. King; DNB; ADL; John Collins; Blundeville; John Palmer; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLAIR | USA, | see Booth, Garrett and Blair. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| BLAIR, ARCHIBALD | Scotland, c.1827, OIM | 16 Broughton Place, Edinburgh (1827). | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BLAIR, H.G., AND CO. | England, fl.1829-60, NIM | T.C. in OOM Hadley octant case; compass adjusters; made chronometers; opticians. | Bristol (1829); 95 Bute Street, Cardiff (1860). | Bryden 9; Calvert 2; Crawforth 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLAIR, ROBERT | Scotland, fl.1783-1828, | invented the aplanatic telescope. | Edinburgh. | Taylor 2(802). | suggest correction | |
| BLAKE, JOHN | England, fl.1766-1820, MIM | apprenticed to John Urings 2 in the Joiners' Company, July 23,1752; free in the Company, May 6, 1766; took apprentices. | near Hermitage Bridge, near Broad Street, Ratcliff (1766-73); New Ratcliff (1774-76); near Ratcliff Cross (1801); near Brewers Meeting, Stepney (1820); all in London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| BLAKELEY, BENJAMIN | England, fl.1832-36, MIM PHIM | 11 High Street, Lambeth, London. | Taylor 2(1780); O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
| BLAKELY | England, c.1780, MIM | Drawing Instrument Set = NMM. | London. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
| BLAKENE | England, 1342, MIM | Astrolabe, 1342 = BM-1853/11/4-1. | ICA-292. | Gunther 1; Price 1 and 3; Ward 4; ICA 2; Michel 3; Dewhirst. | suggest correction | |
| BLAKENEY | see Cameron and Blakeney. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BLAKENEY AND CO. | England, NIM | Octant, brass with ivory scale = Christie-SK 10/6/83. | Sunderland and Howe. | Morrison-Low 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLAKENEY, J.B., AND CO. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = OMM. | see J.W. Blakeney and Co. | South Shields. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLAKENEY, J.W., AND CO. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = VNN. | see J.B. Blakeney and Co. | Hull and Sutherland. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLAKEY, G.H. | England, | Master, R.N.; invented a stadiometer, c.1850; instrument made by W. Heath, Devonport. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | ||
| BLAKSLEE, ZIBA | USA, 1768-1834, MIM SIM | made surveying instruments, clocks and bells. | Newtown, Conn. | Bedini 1; Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLANC, JACQUES | Switzerland, PHIM | Money Balances = Stadtmuseum, Meissen. | Geneva. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLANCHINI, ANTONIUS | see Antonio Bianchini. | Bonelli 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BLANCKE BZ., HENDRIK | Holland, fl.1816-26, NIM | compass maker. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| BLAND, EDWARD | England, c.1668, | apprenticed to Walter Hayes of the Grocers' Company on Aug. 19, 1668. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BLAND, JOSEPH | England, c.1700?, MIM | diallist. | Beeston, Nottinghamshire. | Taylor 1(516). | suggest correction | |
| BLASER, JACOB | Switzerland, MIM | Hohenmesscheibe = Stuker 11/22/66. | Berne. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLASET | France, fl.1769-72, OIM | optician. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| BLATCHFORD AND IMRAY | see Blachford and Imray. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | |||
| BLATON | see Bleyghton. | Taylor 1(163). | suggest correction | |||
| BLATT, I. | England, 20th Century?, PHIM | Stick Barometers = D.(1975), K. & C. 12/12/73. | Brighton. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLATTNER, JACOB | Switzerland; USA, 1812-88, MIM SIM | Surveying Compasses = P.C.; Clark County Historical Museum, Vancouver, B.C., Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, D.(1990), D.(1987). | Berne; St. Louis, Mo. | USNM; Smart 1; Coffeen 16; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLAUWE, P.D. | Belgium, 1777, MIM | Perpetual Calendar, disc, 1777 = BM-1901/11/15-16. | Gend. | Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction | |
| BLAVET | France, 1769, OIM | made lenses and mirrors. | Quai de l'Horloge, Paris. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| BLAXAM, RICHARD | England, 1651, MIM | Quadrant, silver, 1651 = BM-1855/5/9-1 (destroyed). | also has monogram of "B." over "RH."; usually listed erroneously as "Bloxham." | Price 3; Ward 4; Taylor 1(250); Clay and Court; Dewhirst. | suggest correction | |
| BLAYTON, EDWARD | England, c.1612, | apprenticed to Elias Allen of the Grocers' Company on July 7, 1612. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BLENAERTS, I. | France, 1770, MIM | Sundial, 1770 = OXF. | Malines. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
| BLENKINSOP, JOHN | England, c.1793, | apprenticed to Dudley Adams of the Grocers' Company on July 4, 1793. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BLENLER | misreading for Bleuler. | K. and C. 3/28/73. | suggest correction | |||
| BLEUBER | misreading for Bleuler. | Christie 2/8/79. | suggest correction | |||
| BLEULER, JOCK | Globe, miniature = D.(1997). | misreadimg for John Bleuler. | ATG 10/14/97. | suggest correction | ||
| BLEULER, JOHN | England, c.1757-1829, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | wide range of instruments that may be seen in many museums , including a microscope, 1788, sextants, an orrery, sundials, an ivory thermometer, a barometer, Miniature Terrestrial Globe, etc. | apprenticed to Henry Raines Shuttleworth of the Spectacle- makers' Company in 1771; free of the Company, Oct. 7, 1779; Master of the Company 1792, 1795, 1811; worked with Shuttleworth until 1791; succeeded to Thomas Whitford's business, 1791; T.C., optician. | Mr. Shuttleworth's, 23 Ludgate Street; 27 Ludgate Street, (1791); both in London. | Taylor 2(687); Daumas 1; Brewington 1; Dewhirst; Crawforth 1; Moskowitz 105; Calvert 2; Court and von Rohr 3(200); USNM; J.A. Bennett 2; Sotheby's 5/11/94; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLEWLER | misreading for Bleuler. | Brewington 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BLEYGHTON, JOHN | England, fl.1630-34, MIM | may be the same as John Blighton 1. | near Bull Head Tavern in Tower Street, London. | Taylor 1(163); Dewhirst; Evans 1; J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLIGHTON, JOHN 1 | England, fl.1620-54?, MIM | apprenticed to Elias Allen of the Grocers' Company; free of the Company on Aug. 16, 1620; may be John Bleyghton. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BLIGHTON, JOHN 2 | England, fl.1654-, MIM | free of the Grocers' Company by Patrimony on Aug. 9, 1654; might mean that his father, John Blighton 1, had died and thus the last three apprentices in his father's list would have been his. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BLIGNY, AUGUST | 18th Century, MIM SIM | Carpenter's Square with pivoted index = LOS. | USNM; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BLISS AND CO. | USA, c.1845, NIM | Bearing Sight Instrument = MYS. | New York, N.Y. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLISS AND CREIGHTON | USA, c.1845, MIM NIM SIM | John Bliss 1 and Creighton. | New York City. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BLISS, JOHN (1), AND CO. | USA, fl.1845-78, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | Marine Compasses = PMS, Nat'l Museum of Canada, D.(1978); Surveying Compass = USNM; Bliss Taffrail Log = D.(1971). | log patented 1864 and 1878.; started as Bliss and Creighton; T.C. | 2 Burling Slip; 128 Front Street, between Wall and Pine; all in New York, N.Y. | USNM; Brewington 1; Moskowitz 132; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLISS, JOHN 1 | USA, 1795-1857, MIM NIM SIM | Surveying Compasses = D.(1960); Marine Compass = Glenbow Museum, Canada; Alidade = D.(1997). | became John Bliss and Co. in 1845. | 42 Fulton Street, New York, N.Y. | USNM; Moskowitz 103; Brewington 1; Bedini 6; J.A. Bennett 2; MAD June 1997. | suggest correction |
| BLISS, JOHN 2 | USA, fl.1840-78, NIM | New York, N.Y. | J.A. Bennett 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BLISS, MOSES BRIDGMAN | USA, 1798-1885, MIM | Garden Sundial with compass and analemma = D.(1980). | sundial registered in Maine. | Mass.; Maine; Wis. | Moskowitz 120. | suggest correction |
| BLOCH, ABRAHAM | Germany, 1583, MIM | Calendar Plate, 1583 = MUN-1294. | Bayreuth. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLOCK, FRANCIS | England, c.1689, MIM | apprenticed to John Bellinger 1 of the Clockmakers' Company on July 18, 1689. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BLOCKER, SYMEN DIRCKXSEN | Holland, c.1626, MIM | marked on mariner's astrolabe at SKO, (NMM-13); thought to be owner; copy of it is at STK. | Waters 1; A. Stimson 3; Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BLOK, TJEPKE | see Keimpe Zeilmaker en Tjepke Blok. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BLOMBERG, MARTINUS | Sweden, c.1575, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, silver = NOR-81.147. | Stockholm. | Swedish Exhib. Cat., 1952; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLOND, C. | misreading for C. Bloud. | Pugsley Sale. | suggest correction | |||
| BLOND, C.H. | misreading for C. Bloud. | Stewart, et al. | suggest correction | |||
| BLONDEAU | France, 18th Century, MIM | Square = Spitzer-2869; Level = Spitzer-2824 = And.-Spitzer Sale-5; Universal Ring Sundial = MADEX-218 = CNAM; Sector = ADL-M89. | universal ring sundial had five sundials added at a later time and is signed "Blondeaux"; could be B., or Nicholas or Roch Blondeau. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Cons. Nat'1 1; Destombes 4; Hamilton 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLONDEAU, B. | France, 18th Century, MIM | sundial maker. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLONDEAU, NICOLAUS | France; Italy, fl.1694-1706, MIM SIM | Universal Ring Sundials = CNAM, Nouveau Drouot 5/20/88, D.(1986), OXF-B112, TIM, Drecker Coll.= P.C., etc.; Military Protractor = ADL-M125; Sector, 1694 = OXF; Pair of Dividers, = NMM (1694); Compass = P.C.(1965); Surveying Quadrant, 1695 = P.C.; Ellipsometer Track = HAK; Gunnery Calipers = MAA. | calipers signed "N. Blondo"; OXF sector signed "Nicolaus Blondo fecit" (the final "o" has an acute accent over it); the Nouveau Drouot and D.(1986) universal ring sundials all have an inner rotating ring divided into 15-minute intervals, to give Italian or Babylonian hours as well as local suntime. | Paris (1694-95); Naples (1706). | Daumas 1; Engelmann 1; Michel 3; Gunther 2; Josten; NMM 2; Coffeen 12; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLONDEAU, PETRUS | see Petrus Blondeus. | Daumas 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BLONDEAU, ROCH | France, fl.1664-90, MIM SIM | Sector, 1670 = Soth. 12/19/66-53; Rule, 1668 = CNAM; Butterfield-type Sundials = OXF-B71 and B72, WHI (silver) (1673), MADEX-91 = NMM (1670), Christie 2/13/68-38, LEY, ADL-M89; Rule, folding, silver, 1670 = A-P 3/15/76; Horizontal String-gnomon Sundial, 1667 = WHI; Pocket Sundial, 1664 = D.(1994); etc. | "ingénieur du roi en instruments des mathématiques." | à l'enseigne de la Boussole, Quai du Grandcours-d'Eau, Ile de la Cité, Paris (1665). | Daumas 1; Michel 1; Dewhirst; Engelmann 1; Evans 1; Josten; Bryden 11 and 16; Coffeen 46; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLONDEAUX | see Blondeau. | MADEX. | suggest correction | |||
| BLONDEL ET MELLY | Switzerland, 1840, MIM | Zakhorloge, 1840 = AMST. | Geneva. | Mörzer Bruyns 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLONDEL, HENRY | 1707, MIM | Sundial, copper, 1707 = P.C. | for 48°. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLONDEUS, PETRUS | France; Italy, c.1700, MIM | Recipiangle = ADL-M107. | the instrument is signed "Petrus Blondeus Gall. fecit Romae"; he was a Frenchman working in Rome; the invention of the recipiangle is credited to Silvius Maggirius. | Rome. | Engelmann 1; Daumas 1; Michel 3; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLONDO, NICOLAUS | see Nicolaus Blondeau. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BLONO, NICOLO | Italy, MIM | Instrument = NMM. | probably Nicolaus Blondeau. | Naples. | NMM 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLOUD | many Bloud-type sundials are signed "Bloud"; could be by Charles, Charles le Jeune, Gabriel, Jacques or Jean Bloud. | suggest correction | ||||
| BLOUD, CHARLES | France, fl.1653-80, MIM | Bloud-type Sundial, large, 1653 = HAR; a great number of his portable sundials are found in numerous collections, including ADL, WHI, OXF, etc. | Huguenot; he invented a magnetic azimuth sundial now known as the Bloud-type; they were usually of ivory but a few tortoise- shell ones exist; a sliding hour scale within the compass box is adjusted to the time of year by turning the volvelle on the back; when the sundial is aligned with the sun, the compass needle points to the proper hour; usually signed "Fait et Invent par Charles Bloud à Dieppe" on back plate. | Dieppe. | Michel 1 and 3; ADL; Syndram; Bryden 16; Daumas 1; Maddison 1 and 5; Josten; Vivielle 1; Monreal; Price 2 and 3; Ward 4; USNM; NMM 2; Tardy; Nachet; Hamilton 1; T. Murdock; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLOUD, CHARLES, LE JEUNE | France, c.1700, MIM | Diptych Sundials, ivory = WUP, Lempertz 4/28/61, Christie 11/24/83; Bloud-type Sundial, ivory = Soth. 11/13/61-81. | Dieppe. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLOUD, GABRIEL | France, c.1666, MIM | Bloud-type Sundials, ivory = ADL-N20, MADEX-168 = Musée, Dieppe, MERC-88, PMM, etc.; Diptych Sundial, ivory = P.C. | probably son or brother of Charles Bloud. | Dieppe. | Michel 3; Hamilton 1 and 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLOUD, I. | France, c.1670, MIM | Horizontal Sundials = BM, Soth. 12/12/55/ (ivory). | BM gnomon is for 50° latitude; maybe Jacques or, less likely, Jean Bloud. | Ward 4; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLOUD, JACQUES | France, c.1666, MIM | Bloud-type Sundial, ivory = MERC-60. | possibly son or brother of Charles Bloud. | Dieppe. | Hamilton 1 and 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLOUD, JEAN | France, c.1690, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, ivory and silver = OXFB-201. | Dieppe. | Maddison 5. | suggest correction | |
| BLOUD, KAREL | France, MIM | Montfoort. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BLOW, EDMUND | England, fl.1704-38, MIM NIM | Napier's Bones, 1715 = OXF; Backstaff, 1736 = WHI. | apprenticed to Grace Wells in the Joiners' Company, Aug. 6, 1695; free in the Company, June 13, 1704; took apprentices; the bones were made for Mr. Julius Deeds; the backstaff was made for James M'Culloch. | Golden Quadrant, Plow Alley, Union Stairs, Wapping; Virginia Street; both in London. | Taylor 1(570) and 2(14); Dewhirst; Crawforth 7; RSW; J.A. Bennett 2. | suggest correction |
| BLOW, F. | see Edmund Blow. | suggest correction | ||||
| BLOXAM, JAMES MACKENZIE | England, 1843, | invented depleidoscope in 1843, made and sold by E.J. Dent who named the instrument. | Coffeen; G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | ||
| BLOXHAM, RICHARD | misreading for Richard Blaxam. | Taylor 1(250); Price 3; Dewhirst; Clay and Court. | suggest correction | |||
| BLOYD, C. | misreading for C. Bloud. | Bernal Sale. | suggest correction | |||
| BLUNDY, CHARLES | England; USA, fl.1753-60, PHIM | made or sold thermometers. | London; Church Street, Charleston, S.C. | Bedini 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLUNT 1 | see Nairne and Blunt. | suggest correction | ||||
| BLUNT 2 | England, OIM | Spyglass = USNM. | could be Edward or Thomas Blunt. | London. | USNM. | suggest correction |
| BLUNT AND CO. | USA, fl.1868-78, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | George William Blunt; succeeded Blunt and Nichols. | New York, N.Y. | Moskowitz 103; Brewington 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLUNT AND NICHOLS | USA, fl.1866-68, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Edmund Blunt 2, F.M. Nash and John H Nichols were partners in Blunt and Nichols; succeeded by Blunt and Co., in 1868; Nichols was the Blunts' uncle. | New York, N.Y. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLUNT AND SON 1 | England, 1802 and 1814, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Thomas Blunt 1 and possibly William Blunt or Thomas Blunt 2. | London. | Wess 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLUNT AND SON 2 | England, fl.1822-24, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Thomas Blunt 1 and Edward Blunt. | London. | Wess 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLUNT, CHARLES 1 | England, fl.1811-18, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Surveying Compass = Soth. 4/22/65-53; Instrument = NMM; Alt-azimuth Quadrant = WHI; Telescope, single draw = Christie-SK 4/14/89. | T.C.; made sextants, alt-azimuth circles and pocket theodolites; compass is signed "C. Blunt." | Cornhill; 38 Tavistock Street (1817); both in London. | Taylor 2(1281); Wess 1; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLUNT, CHARLES 2 | Sir Charles Blunt; marked on a sundial, ADL-T22, which is signed "H.C. 1591"; it is the work of D.B. Sheahan of New York, N.Y. c.1900. | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BLUNT, E. | England or USA, OIM | Telescope = MYS. | could be Edmund or Edward Blunt. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BLUNT, E. AND G.W. | USA, fl.1826-66, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | wide range of instruments that may be seen in many museums. | Edmund (1) and George William Blunt, sons of Edmund March Blunt; manufactory at Elizabeth, N.J., listed as being formerly Hermann Wendt (1859). | 149 Fly Market Street (1826); Maiden Lane; 179 Water Street, corner of Burling Slip and West Hooker Street; all in New York, N.Y. | Moskowitz 103; Smart 1; Brewington 1; USNM; Bedini 8; RSW; J.A. Bennett 2; D.J. Warner 10; DATM. | suggest correction |
| BLUNT, EDMUND 1 | USA, 1799-1866, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | son of Edmund March Blunt; older brother and partner of George William Blunt; see E. and G.W. Blunt. | New York, N.Y. | Smart 1; Moskowitz 103; J.A. Bennett 2; D.J. Warner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BLUNT, EDMUND 2 | USA, 1842-94, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | son of Edmund Blunt 1; partner in Blunt and Nichols with F.M. Nash and John H. Nichols, 1866-68; this firm became Blunt and Co. in 1868, and Edmund was succeeded by his brother, William Sinclair Blunt at that time; he established the New York Optical Works that same year. | 16 Burling Slip, New York, N.Y. (1868-94). | Smart 1 | suggest correction | |
| BLUNT, EDMUND MARCH | USA, 1770-1862, MIM NIM | Nautical Compass = USNM. | publisher; set up chart and quadrant shop, 1812; his sons, Edmund (1) and George William Blunt, carried on the firm; Warner 12 says that son-in-law, William Hooker, took over 202 Water Street in 1819. | Newburyport, Mass. (1793-1811); at the Sign of the Quadrant, 202 Water Street, corner of Beekman Slip, New York, N.Y. (1811-62). | USNM; Brewington 1; Bedini 8; D.J. Warner 10 and 12. | suggest correction |
| BLUNT, EDWARD | England, c.1828, MIM PHIM | Barometer = Christie 8/2/72. | son of Thomas Blunt 1; could be Blunt and Son, 1822-24; free by Patrimony in 1825; took over the business; barometer is signed "E. Blunt"; spirit level signed "Pool-London." | 22 Cornhill, London. | O'Mara; Wess 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLUNT, GEORGE WILLIAM | USA, 1802-78, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | younger son of Edmund March Blunt and younger brother of Edmund Blunt 1; see E. and G.W. Blunt. | New York, N.Y. | Smart 1; Brewington 1; Moskowitz 103; Bedini 8; J.A. Bennett 2; D.J. Warner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BLUNT, JOHN | England, c.1767, NIM | Sextants = Soth. 3/21/73, Christie 12/17/75. | compass maker; catalogues think he is 1800 or later; may be two men. | Wapping Dock, London. | Taylor 2(576); RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLUNT, ROBERT | England, c.1789, MIM | apprenticed to George Adams 2 of the Grocers' Company on Sept. 5, 1782; free of the Company on Dec. 3, 1789. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BLUNT, T. AND T. | England, c. 1822, MIM OIM PHIM | Sets of Drawing Instruments = P.C., Decatur House, Washington, D.C.; Microscope = Phillips 11/16/76; Rule, ivory = P.C.; Hydrometers = X (de Luc-type), Phillips 5/20/75; Garden Sundial = D.(1975); Telescope, Gregorian = Moose Factory Museum, Ontario; Barometer = P.C. | perhaps Thomas Blunt 1 and 2. | 22 Cornhill, London. | USNM; Delehar 3; Wess 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLUNT, T., AND SON | England, c.1822, OIM | Microscope = P.C.; Telescope = Christie 4/9/75. | Thomas Blunt and Son; telescope signed "Blunt and Son." | 22 Cornhill, London. | O'Mara; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLUNT, T.T. | misreading for T. and T. Blunt? | Soth. 2/8/83. | suggest correction | |||
| BLUNT, THOMAS 1 | England, fl.1760-1822, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | wide range of instruments that may be seen in many museums, including barometers, microscopes, telescopes, sundials, levels, dipping needles, orreries, etc. | apprenticed to Edward Nairne of the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1760; free of the Company in 1771; Master of the Company 1782-94; partner of Nairne, 1774-93; worked alone, 1793-1805; had son in business in 1805; "Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty"; T.C.; see Nairne and Blunt; see T. and T. Blunt; see T. Blunt and Son; succeeded by Thomas Harris.. | 22 Cornhill; 136 Minories (1814-20); both in London. | Taylor 2(577); Goodison 1; Clay and Court; Symonds; Moskowitz 112; Wynter and Turner; Dewhirst; Multhauf 1; USNM; Pipping 1; Court and von Rohr 3(180); Calvert 2; Crawforth 1 & 6; Wynter 1; Wess 1; Bryden 16; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BLUNT, THOMAS 2 | England, c.1811., MIM OIM | free of the Spectaclemakers' Company on March 2, 1811; may have been son in Blunt and Son 1. | 18 Ivy Lane, London. | Dewhirst; Court and von Rohr 3(241); Wess 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLUNT, WILLIAM | England, c.1825, MIM | Rev. William Blunt, son of and apprenticed to Thomas Blunt 1 of the Spectaclemakers' Company, June 1, 1816; free of the Company on Oct. 11, 1825. | Court and von Rohr 3(244); Wess 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BLUNT, WILLIAM SINCLAIR | USA, 1837-1903, MIM SIM | in 1868 he replaced his brother, Edmund Blunt 2 in Blunt and Co. with F.M. Nash as a partner. | New York, N.Y. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLYDENBURGH AND GILES | USA, fl.1838-42, MIM SIM | Transit = D.(1983). | Samuel Blydenburgh and Edward Giles; also sold nautical, optical and philosophical instruments. | Philadelphia, Pa. | Smart 1; USNM; Coffeen E. | suggest correction |
| BLYDENBURGH AND HYDE | USA, c.1847, MIM | Samuel Blydenburgh and Joseph Hyde; machinists. | 1 Fetter Lane, Philadelphia, Pa. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| BLYDENBURGH, SAMUEL | USA, 1802-52, MIM | see Blydenburgh and Giles; see Blydenburgh and Hyde. | Philadelphia, Pa. | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BLYTON | see Blighton. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BOARDMAN | England, 1709, MIM | Perpetual Calendar, 1709 = D.(1975). | Wynter 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BOBY | see Schulen and Boby. | suggest correction | ||||
| BOCHSEN, JOHANN CARL | France, 1616, | Bochsen designed an artillery level in 1616; author; in a mms. in Ulm he takes the title "Meisterey." | Strasbourg. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOCKELTS, JAN | Holland; Germany, fl.1607-40, MIM | Sundials in watch lids = Mallett Coll., NYM (Morgan Coll.) | the sundial in the NYM is signed "Jan Bockelts Aachen." | Aachen. | Vincent 2; Baillie 1. | suggest correction |
| BOCKSTAEL, VAN | France, d.1740, MIM | Equatorial Sundials = Musée, Nancy (2). | "Machiniste du Roy." | Nancy. | Michel 3 and 14. | suggest correction |
| BODDINGTON, JOHN | England, c.1734, MIM | Perpetual Calendar = BM-1930/1/6-1 | apprenticed to Simon Cade of the Clockmakers' Company on April 5, 1725; free of the Company, Oct. 7, 1734. | Threadneedle Street, London. | Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction |
| BODEUR | France, 1819, PHIM | Barometer, 1819 = CNAM. | Quai de l'Horloge, Paris. | USNM; Middleton 1. | suggest correction | |
| BODIN, FRIEDRICH | Germany?, 1788, MIM | Lippspring. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BODSON | France, c.1800, OIM | optician; made lenses and mirrors. | Quai de l'Horloge, Paris. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| BODUMONT, J.B.F. | Belgium, 1796, MIM | Sundial, slate, large = X; Tellurium = X. | rue de l'Intendant, Brussels. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
| BOEHM, ANDREAS | Germany, 1720-90, OIM PHIM | Geissen. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BOEKENES, P. | Holland, 1707, NIM | Cross-staff, three vanes, 1707 = HAK. | Mörzer Bruyns 2; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BOEKMER, TOBIAS | misreading for Tobias Volkmer. | "Engineering", post-1944. | suggest correction | |||
| BOELAU, G. | Ireland?, c.1850, MIM | Clinometer = D.(1972). | Moskowitz 104. | suggest correction | ||
| BOERNAVE, JEHAN | France, 1354, MIM | Astrolabe Clock = Strasbourg Cathedral. | destroyed c.1550. | Strasbourg. | Gunther 1. | suggest correction |
| BOETHIUS, A.M.S. | fl.480-525, MIM | was commissioned by Theodoric to construct a water clock and sundial for Gundibald, King of the Burgundians. | Cousins. | suggest correction | ||
| BOFFAT | see Buffat. | suggest correction | ||||
| BOFFI, A. AND P. | England, c.1840, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth., 6/6/96. | see P. and A. Boffi. | Hastings. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOFFI, L. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Hastings. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOFFI, P. AND A. | England, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = Soth. 7/21/87, D.(1990). | D.(1990) is signed "P.A. Boffi." | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOFFY, L. | England, c.1850, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Christie 4/25/91. | Hastings. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOGGAIA, D. | England, c.1839, PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker. | 29 1/2 Great Warner Street, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOHAIM | see Behaim. | suggest correction | ||||
| BOHEIM, MORITZ | see Moritz Behaim. | Neumann 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BOHEMUS, CHASPARUS | Austria, 1568, MIM | Astrolabe Clocks = Spitzer Sale = Chauteau d'Anet (1568), Morgan Coll. = NYM (1568). | Chasparus Bohémus; alternative spelling is "Caspar Böheim." | Vienna. | Tardy 1; Vincent 2; Van Cittert; Neumann 1. | suggest correction |
| BOHINI DE PORTARIS | Italy, 17th Century, MIM | Astrolabe = Castello Sforzesco, Milan. | might be ICA-2059 or -2061. | Italian Inventory; ICA 2. | suggest correction | |
| BOHLING, CHRISTIAN | see Christian Boyling. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BOHM, MARCUS | Germany, c.1660, MIM | Astrolabe Table Clock = UTR. | Gunther 333; Van Cittert thought c.1600. | Augsburg. | Gunther 1; Michel 3; Britten; Van Cittert; de Rijk. | suggest correction |
| BOHME, PROF., AND M. REITER | Austria, MIM | Starfinder, celestial globe with two telescopes = AUI. | "Pat. des Prof. Bohme, etc." | Innsbruck. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOIG, JOHN | Scotland, fl.1649-d.1663, MIM | Edinburgh. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BOIJLING | see Boyling. | suggest correction | ||||
| BOISSIER | Germany, MIM | Equatorial Sundial = HEI. | Berlin. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOITTE | France, MIM | see Girard and Boitte. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BOJSI, PAUL | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Rayleigh. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOKMA, ALLE JANS | Holland, 1801-80, MIM | Planetarium, 1841 = Eisinga's House, Franeker; Tellurium = FRI. | mill maker. | Workum. | Rooseboom 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOLING, Z. | Z. Böling; see Z. Boyling. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BOLLAND, WILLIAM | PHIM | Beam Balance, pocket = Christie-SK 2/9/84. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BOLLEN, E.R. | Germany, 1697, MIM | Instrument, 1697 = X. | Hertogenbosch. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOLLES, WILLIAM | USA, 1800-67, | designed a trigonometer, 1824. | New London, Conn. | Brewington 1; Bedini 8. | suggest correction | |
| BOLLETTI, L. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BOLLING | Germany, 1709, | Bölling; possibly Z. Boyling. | Kassel. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOLLON | see Thomas Bolton. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |||
| BOLLORE, LOUIS | France, NIM | Marine Compass, small = Versailles 4/17/83. | Concarneau. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOLONGARO AND SON | England, fl.1848-60, PHIM | made barometers and thermometers; "Printers and Publishers to the Queen"; Dominic and Peter Bolongaro. | 32 Market Street (1845-54); 30-32 Market Street (1855-60); both in Manchester. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOLONGARO, DOMINIC | Italy; England, 1817?-60, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | making barometers by 1843; his son, Peter, was partner, 1848-60; worked with Vittore Zanetti up to 1817. | 2 Old Millgate (1817-30); 14 Market Street (1832-33); 32 Market Street (1834-54); 30-32 Market Street (1855-60); all in Manchester. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BOLONGARO, PETER | England, fl.1848-60, PHIM | son of Dominic Bolongaro; see Bolongaro and Son. | Manchester. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOLTER, HUGH | England, fl.pre-1638-72, OIM | apprenticed into the Woodmongers' Company; free of the Company in 1666; transferred to the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1666; worked for Robert Hooke. | Little Minories, London (1670-72). | Taylor 1(275); Court and von Rohr 3(18); Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | |
| BOLTON 1 | England, fl. c.1837-50, MIM | Rule, ivory = Soth.-Chester 9/22/83; Sectors, ivory = Phillips 2/2/84, D.(1984); Routledge-type Slide Rule, ivory = Christie-SK 11/15/79. | the rule from the Soth. Cat. is from a set of drawing instruments. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOLTON 2 | MIM | Bolton's Cypher Wheel = D.(1973). | Wynter 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BOLTON, D. | England, c.1815, MIM | Garden Sundial = BM-1926/10/16-10. | made for Queen Caroline. | London. | Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction |
| BOLTON, FREDERICK AND HENRY | England, c.1837, MIM | successors of Thomas Bolton. | 62 Loveday Street, Birmingham. | Taylor 2(2018). | suggest correction | |
| BOLTON, JOHN | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Durham. | Goodison 1; Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOLTON, THOMAS | England, fl.1808-45, MIM | Set of Mathematical Instruments, case = X; Garden Dial = X. | Bryden says (Bollon?), 1808-18 and rule maker; Clay and Court thought instrument set c.1780; may be two makers. | 6 Colmore Row (1808; Colmore Row (1818); 61 and 62 Loveday Street; all in Birmingham. | Bryden 9; Taylor 2(1782); Clay and Court; Dewhirst; Crawforth 6. | suggest correction |
| BOMBARDA | see Augustinus Cucco, bombarda. | Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BOMBELLI, BALDASSARO | England, c.1830, PHIM | made barometers. | 6 King Street, Whitehaven. | Taylor 2(1783). | suggest correction | |
| BOMBERG, CARL | Germany, OIM | Refracting Telescope = P.C. | four-inch. | Fredinau Strasse, Berlin. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BON, JEAN | France, c.1820, | Jambon? | Coffeen Note. | suggest correction | ||
| BON, JOHN | Scotland, fl.1840-46, NIM | Octant = D.(1976); Marine Barometer = Soth. 4/28/88. | also made chronometers and watches; succeeded by Mrs. John Bon by 1850; signature on back of compass card in azimuth cmpass by Thomas Smith. | 17 Dock Street (1840); 25 Dock Street (1845); 26 Dock Street (1846); all in Dundee. | Taylor 2(2082); Bryden 3; Moskowitz; Clarke et al; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BON, MRS. JOHN | Scotland, fl.1850-53, NIM | succeeded her husband after 1846; by 1853 she was no longer listed as a NIM. | 24 Dock Street East, Dundee (1850). | Bryden 3; Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
| BONALDO, MARCO | Italy, 1677-99, MIM | Pair of Globes = Widener Library, Harvard U., Cambridge, Mass. | the celestial globe is dated 1677, the terrestrial, 1699. | Venice. | Yonge. | suggest correction |
| BONANNI, P. PHILIPPE | Italy, c.1689, OIM | made microscopes; author. | Daumas 1; Nachet; Price 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BONAR, JOHN | Scotland, fl.1623-34, MIM | Equatorial Sundial, Dec. 11, 1623, slate = Dumfries Burgh Museum; Sundials, slate = Kirkcudbright (1623), Loudoun Castle (1634), Soth. 10/15/73 (1634) = Soth. 6/24/74 = D, RSM, Bangor Heritage Center. | Johanne? | Aerae = Ayr. | Gatty; Wynter and Turner; USNM; Rohr and Somerville; RSW; Clarke et al; Somerville. | suggest correction |
| BOND, A. | England, c.1850, OIM | Microscope, double pillar = D.(1981). | London. | Moskowitz 122. | suggest correction | |
| BOND, HENRY | England, c.1600-78, | developed a ship-builder's scale; may be the Henry Bond who observed variations in the compass in 1662. | London. | Bryden 9; Bedini 8. | suggest correction | |
| BOND, JOHN | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X. | one barometer is signed "Bond Okehampton", the other "John Bond." | Okehampton. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BOND, THOMAS | England, c.1685, MIM | apprenticed to Withers Cheney of the Clockmakers' Company on April 30, 1685. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BOND, W. | England, 1795, MIM | Garden Dial, 1795 = D.(1975). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BOND, WILLIAM | USA, fl.1781-1823, MIM NIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1781 = X; Octant, ebony, 1823 = UTR. | apprenticed in 1769; naturalized in 1785; father of William Cranch Bond. | 152 State Street, Boston, Mass. | Price 2; Evans 1; Carlaw. | suggest correction |
| BOND, WILLIAM CRANCH | USA, 1789-1859, MIM PHIM | astronomical and meteorological instruments, 1819; son of William Bond; showed in the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London; Director of Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge (1839-). | Dorchester, Mass. | USNM; Bedini 8; J.A. Bennett 2; Carlaw. | suggest correction | |
| BOND, WILLIAM, AND SON | USA, c.1850, MIM NIM | in the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. | Boston, Mass. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
| BONET | see Bonetus de Latis. | suggest correction | ||||
| BONETUS DE LATIS | France, c.1490, MIM | Astrolabe on a finger ring = X. | made for Pope Alexander; Gunther 172. | Gunther 1; Michel 3; Bonelli 1. | suggest correction | |
| BONFA, R.P., S.J. | France, fl.1672-73, MIM | Wall Dial, 1672-73 = facade of the Jesuit College (now a girls' high school, Grenoble. | Grenoble. | Boursier. | suggest correction | |
| BONIUS, JOANNES | Germany, fl.1573-91, MIM | Astronomical Compendia = ADL-M366, KEN, FRA, VAA; Diptych Sun- dial, gilt-brass = LIE; Perpetual Calendar, 1591 = Rein Stift. | Boone? | Bamberg? | Zinner 1; Michel 1 and 2; Engelmann 1; Evans 1; Rooseboom 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BONNE | France, 1727-94, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, 1783 = CNAM-768; Celestial Globe = Dépôt de la Marine, Paris. | "Ingénieur-hydrographie de la Marine." | Paris. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; Michel 3; Brieux 2; Howse 2. | suggest correction |
| BONNEAU, VINCENT | France, 1574, MIM | Nocturnal with Quadrant, 1574 = WHI. | "Faict à Sens par Vincent Bonneau." | Sens. | Bryden 16; Hamilton 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BONNEMAIN | 1626, MIM SIM | Surveying Cross, 1626 = BMR. | Michel 7; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | ||
| BONNES | France, 18th Century, MIM | Analemmatic Sundial = OXFB-237. | Maddison 5. | suggest correction | ||
| BONNET | France, c.1850, MIM | in Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. | 5, Chemin de Ronde de la Barriere, Ménilmontant. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
| BONNEVIE, CLAUDE | France, fl. 1654-87, MIM | Horizontal Sundials, silver, oval = NMM-D.125 (Caird), D.(1997); Watch, enameled = Musée Paul Dupuy. | NMM is ex-Bernard Coll.; watch is signed "Claude Bonnevye." | Paris. | Hamilton 2; Nachet; Tardy 1. | suggest correction |
| BONONIE, PEREGRINA SPANIOLUS | 1637, MIM | Square, 1637 = ROM-4080. | Price 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BONSIGNORI, DOM STEFANO | Italy, fl.1570-87, | made polyhedral sundials of wood and leather; for instruments see D.S.B.F.F., D.S.F.F., D. Steph. B.F.F.; possibly D. Stephanus; sometimes spelled "Buonsignori." | Florence. | Bonelli 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
| BOOK | see Boig. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BOOKER, FRANCIS AND JOHN | Ireland, fl.1761-73, OIM | T.C. shows microscope and telescope. | Essex Bridge, Dublin. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | |
| BOOKER, JOHN | Ireland, fl.1774-89, | sold looking glasses; see Francis and John Booker. | 6 Essex Bridge; 4 Jervis Street; both in Dublin. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | |
| BOONE | see Joannes Bonius. | Engelmann 1; Michel 1 and 2; Rooseboom 1; RSW.. | suggest correction | |||
| BOONEN, J. STAATS | Holland, fl.1823-40, NIM | succeeded Johannes Gerard Hulst van Keulen van de Velde in 1823; succeeded by Jacob Swart although the firm continued under the name of "Gerard Hulst van Keulen." | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| BOONIUS | see Bonius. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BOOSMAN, W. | Holland, 19th Century, NIM | Compass Rose = AMST. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOOSMAN, WILLEM, EN CO. | Holland, 1836-1926, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Horseshoe Magnet = LEY; Compass = KRO; Instruments = ROT; Compasses = AMST (19); Sextant = AMST. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2. | suggest correction | |
| BOOTH, GARRETT AND BLAIR | USA, 1836-99, PHIM | made chemical and physical instruments. | 404 and 406 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BOOZ | Germany, 18th Century, MIM SIM | Protractor and Compass = BAM. | made geodetic instruments. | Aschaffenburg. | Michel 3. | suggest correction |
| BORBIGE, CHARLES | England, c.1830, MIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | 1 King Street, Whitehaven. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(1784). | suggest correction | |
| BORCH, HANS | MIM | Horizontal Sundial, lead = Den Gamle By, Aarhus. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BORDA, JEAN CHARLES, CHEVALIER DE | France, 1733-99, NIM | Reflecting Circles = PMM, PEA-M4082. | improved the reflecting circle in 1787; author. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Brewington 1; Italian Inventory; G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction |
| BORDER, G. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Sleaford. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BORDES, LOUIS | France, fl.1700-47, MIM | inventor or maker. | Lyon. | Hamilton 2. | suggest correction | |
| BORDESSA AND EATON | England, c.1855, PHIM | barometer and thermometer makers; see Novati, Bordessa and Eaton. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BORDESSA, PIETRO | England, fl.1834-60, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | signed "P. Bordessa Chester"; sometimes found as Peter Bordesa. | 33 Bridge Street Row, Chester. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BORDOGNA | Italy, 1780, MIM | Instrument, 1780 = X. | Milan. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| BORDOGNA, ANTONIO | Italy, c.1810, MIM | made meteorological and magnetic instruments; compasses and astronomical instruments. | Milan. | Brenni 1. | suggest correction | |
| BORDOLI AND CASSAROTI | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Stamford. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BORDOLI, BERNARD | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Marlborough. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BORDOLI, P. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | 22 Charles Street, Hatton Garden, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOREL, PIERRE | France, 1620-89, OIM | made a telescope for l'observatoire de Paris in 1673; member of l'Académie Royal des Sciences, 1674. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| BORELLI 1 | Italy, 1608-79, OIM | pupil of Galileo; made 40' and 60' telescopes. | Dewhirst. | suggest correction | ||
| BORELLI 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 5/18/89. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BORELLI, D. | England, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie-SK 11/21/95; Thermometers = Christie-SK 11/21/95. | thermometers signed "Borelli Farnham." | Farnham. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BORELLI, G. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BORG, ERIC | fl.1737-67, MIM | globe maker. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BORGER | France, 1753, NIM | compass maker. | Paris. | Schück. | suggest correction | |
| BORGER, IVER JENSEN | Denmark, fl.1755-99, MIM NIM | Compasses = P.C., PEA, ADL-N50; Hanging Compasses = CRT, Soth. 11/16/87; Compass Sundial = Ineichen 10/20/75; Compass Rose, paper = GMM. | compass card is one of four in a crown compass at PEA, see also Benjamin Brown. | Copenhagen. | Brewington 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BORINI | England, c.1810, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = D.(1965). | Birmingham. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BORINI, P. 1 | England, 19th Century, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = Soth. 7/16/76, X(3); Stick Barometer = X. | the stick and two wheels signed "P.Borini." | Bull Street, Birmingham. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BORINI, P. 2 | England, c.1818, PHIM | made barometers and thermometers; see Peter Borini and Co. | Snowhill, Birmingham. | Goodison 1; Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| BORINI, PETER, AND CO. | England, c.1808, OIM PHIM | opticians. | 14 Edgbaston Street, Birmingham. | Goodison 1; Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| BORIUS | Holland?, pre-1794, OIM | telescope mentioned in catalogue of 1794. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BORLACE, J. | 1724, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, silver, 1724 = P.C.(1983). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BORNER, JOHAN HENRICH | Germany, 1693, MIM | Vertical Disc Sundial, 1693 = KEN-1938/337. | Johan Henrich Börner; has perpetual calendar. | Zinner 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BORNIER | misreading for Bernier. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BORRELLI, J. | England, c.1830, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 10/16/86. | Basingstoke. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BORRIUS | see Borius. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BORROMEI, JULES | 1775, MIM | Plotting Protractor, 1775 = ADL-M98. | instrument invented by Robequi. | Daumas 1; Michel 3; Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BORSARI, BONIFACIO | Italy, 1760, MIM | Armillary Sphere, 1760 = Modena Museum? | Modena. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
| BOS, JOHANNES | Belgium, fl.1591-1623, MIM | Astrolabe, 1597 = ADL-M33A; Calculating Device, 1623 = Soth. 3/11/52. | son of Jacob Bos, cartographer; he made several astrolabes dated between 1591-97; some are dated "Marti 24 1597"; these last seem to be copies, in a smaller size, of ADL-M33A, including HAR, WHI, etc. | Antwerp; Rome. | Engelmann 1; Maddison; Price 1 and 5; Zinner 1; Michel 3; Rooseboom 1; Gunther 1; Hollands Glorie; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOS, SALOMON EN JAN | Holland, c.1799, NIM | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2; Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BOSCH, ANDREAS | see Andreas Busch. | Zinner 1; Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BOSCH, D. VAN DER | Holland, fl.1821-50, MIM | Rule = AMST; Parallel Rules, 1821 = RIJ. | Rotterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 and 2. | suggest correction | |
| BOSCH, S. | see P. Odenkirchen. | suggest correction | ||||
| BOSE, GEORG MATTHIAS | Germany, c.1743, | improved the electrical machine. | A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | ||
| BOSIUS, IOANNES | see Johannes Bos. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BOSSAGE, NICOLAS | France?, c.1790, PHIM | Thermometers, mercury = GEM (2). | de Saussure Coll. | A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BOSSI, L. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Hastings. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOSSI, P. | England, PHIM | WQheel Barometer = X. | Rayleigh. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOSTOCK, J. | England, c.1765, OIM | Microscope = D.(1983); Microscope, Watkins-type = D.(1986). | London. | Coffeen. | suggest correction | |
| BOSWELL, SAMUEL | England, fl.1709-57, MIM | apprenticed to Thomas Cooke 1 of the Joiners' Company Sept. 9, 1701; free in the Company on May 5, 1709. | Spittalfields, London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| BOTJES, WILDRIK | Holland, 1814-74, MIM | Planetariums = X(2), Eisiga's House, Franeker, (1857-58). | Nieuwe Pekela. | Baillie 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOTTA, LOUIS | England, c.1780, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = Soth. 6/6/75, 1975 Sales Cat., X. | sometimes Luigi Botta. | Evesham and Worcester. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOTTI, GIOVANBATTISTA AND MATTEO | Italy, pre-1776, MIM SIM | Sundial = FLO-2506; Graphometer = FLO-187. | Bonelli 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BOTTOMLEY | England, c.1850, NIM | Sextant = Christie 12/12/72. | 11 Billiter Street, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOTTOMLY, J. | USA, MIM | Protractor = X. | DATM. | suggest correction | ||
| BOUCART | France, MIM PHIM | Cameras Lucida = Soth. 12/2/74, Christie 11/22 78; Horizontal Sundial = Chez Boucart; Cannon Sundial = Cranbrook Institute of Science, Michigan. | sundial maker; "Constructeur." | Quai de l'horloge 35, Paris. | Boursier; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOUCART, MAISON | France, MIM | Sundial = Maison Boucart. | 35 Quai de l'horloge, Paris. | Boursier. | suggest correction | |
| BOUCHER ET LESNE | France, c.1810, OIM | Boucher et Lesné; opticians and lens makers. | au Soleil et à la Gerbe d'or, 3 Quai de l'horloge, Paris. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| BOUDHUINE | France?, 19th Century, NIM | Reflecting Circle = PMM. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BOUDRY | see François Ducommun-dit-Boudry. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BOUFFLER, R. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | 17 Leather Lane, Holborn, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOUFFLER, ROBERT | England, c.1839, PHIM | made barometers and thermometers. | 7 Bell Court, Grays Inn Lane, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOUGLOUX | France, c.1830, PHIM | Thermometer = Nouveau Drout 5/20/88. | "élève et succ. de Mr. Vincent." | Quai Pelletier No. 30, Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOUGUER, PIERRE | France, 1698-1758, PHIM | barometer maker; constructed the first effective photometer. | Poggendorff; DSB; Wolf; Middleton 1; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | ||
| BOUILLY | France, MIM SIM | Graphometer, copper = And.-Spitzer-32. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOUJUS | see Bovius. | suggest correction | ||||
| BOULANGER, LOUIS | France, fl.1500-50, MIM | Globe, 1514 = X. | sometimes spelt Boulenger; astronomer and geographer. | Albi. | Tooley; Hamilton 2; Price 2; Gunther 2. | suggest correction |
| BOULBY, GEORGE | England?, 1813, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial, 1813 = X. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BOULTER, BENJAMIN | England, c.1776, | apprenticed to Michael Dancer in the Joiners' Company on Oct. 1, 1776. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BOULTER, JAMES | USA?, c.1850, MIM | made mathematical drawing instruments. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| BOULTON, THOMAS | England, c.1645, | apprenticed to John Brown 6 in the Joiners' Company, 1645. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BOUQUET ET GEORGES OBERHAUSER | France, c.1830, OIM | Microscope = NAC. | Trécourt was also involved with this microscope. | Paris. | Nachet. | suggest correction |
| BOUR | France, post-1817, MIM | Orrery = VNN. | invented by Ch. Rouy, 1817, Paris. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOURBON ET ASSIER-PERRICAT | France, c.1771, PHIM | Thermometer = CNAM; Barometer = CNAM. | André Bourbon and Antoine Assier-Perricat. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction |
| BOURBON, ANDRE | France, fl.1751-71, PHIM | Barometers = Lehmann Sale-31, Academy of Sciences, Paris, 1751; Thermometers = COR, Academy of Sciences, Paris, 1752. | André Bourbon; took Antoine Assier-Perricat as partner, c. 1771. | Paris. | Daumas 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOURBON, M. LANGE DE | see Lange de Bourbon, M. | Hamilton 2. | suggest correction | |||
| BOURBON, MICHAEL | France, fl.1735-53, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial, 1735 = MERC-45 = OXFB-209; Sundial, silver, 1753 = Soth. 5/10/54-134. | 1753 dial may be Butterfield-type. | Paris. | Maddison 5; Michel 3; Hamilton 1; F.J.B. Watson; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOURDIN | see Bourdon. | Weschler 5/22/76. | suggest correction | |||
| BOURDON, EUGENE | France, 1808-84, PHIM | Aneroid Barometer in clock base = Weschler 5/22/76. | Eugène Bourdon; invented the aneroid barometer, 1849. | 74 Faubourg du Temple, Paris. | G.L'E. Turner 24; Middleton 1; DSB; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOURET, VDA DE CH. | France, c.1850, MIM | label on Spanish terrestrial globe. | Paris. | Moskowitz 104. | suggest correction | |
| BOURETTE, E.H. | France, fl.1841-62, PHIM | made thermometers. | rue Saint-Maur, 131, Paris. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BOURGAUD | France, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial = USNM (1964). | Nantes. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BOURGEOIS, JACQUES | France, c.1645, OIM | made mirrors and lenses. | rue Saint-Denis, près Saint-Jacques, Paris. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| BOURGOIS | France, PHIM | Altimeter Barometer = Phillips 2/2/84. | 27 Rue des Pyramides, Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOURIOT, L'ABBE, DE L'ETANG | France, fl.1765-70, OIM | L'Abbé Bouriot de l'Etang; amateur; made achromatic lens. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BOURN | England, c.1839, PHIM | made barometers. | 40 Bull Street, Birmingham. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BOURNE AND SON | England, fl.1799-1802, MIM | Thomas Bourne 1 and 2. | London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| BOURNE, JOSHUA | England, fl.1744-67, MIM | apprenticed to John Urings 1 in the Joiners' Company on April 4, 1731; free in the Company, Oct. 2, 1744; took apprentices. | Goodmans' Fields, London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| BOURNE, THOMAS 1 | England, fl.1767-1821, MIM | apprenticed to Joshua Bourne in the Joiners' Company on June 3, 1755; free in the Company, May 5, 1767; listed as Bourne and Son, 1799-1802; may have taken apprentices. | Bethnal Green Road (1803-09); Hog Row, Bethnal Green Road (1821-38); both in London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| BOURNE, THOMAS 2 | England, fl.1801-03, MIM | younger son of Thomas Bourne 1; free in the Joiners' Company by Patrimony on March 3, 1801, on the report of William Williams 3 and Michael Dancer; the apprentices listed to him might have been his father's. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BOURNE, WILLIAM | England, fl.1565-88, | designed nautical instruments; wrote in 1574 a description of the log line. | Gravesend. | Taylor 1(38); Bedini 8; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BOUTORDO | France, 18th Century, PHIM | Coin Balance = Soth. 10/3/88. | also marked "D.O.R." with anchor. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOUTY, EDOUARD | France, NIM | Borda Circles = D.(1967), Soth. 2/25/86. | Paris. | USNM; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOUVERI | England, | also spelled Bouverie; see Francis Boveri. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BOVERI, FRANCIS | England, fl.1830-41, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | also made thermometers. | 9 Eyre Street Hill, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BOVIUS, FRANC. XAVER JOSEF | Germanyfl.1711-19, MIM SIM | Sundials, stone = AUG (1711), KEN-1880-33 (1712), GRA-7655 (1715), EIS (1716), SOL (1716), MUN (1718), FRA (1718), ADL-M286 (1719); Surveying Instrument = MOS. | "Franc. Xaveri Josephus Bovius SS can. exam. et approb. Presbyter Eystettensis invent fecit"; see F.B.P. | Eichstatt. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; Evans 1; Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOVOLENTA, ANTO FABRIS | Italy, MIM SIM | Quadrant = Christie 2/8/66-6; Alidade for plane table = ADL-M134; Rule = P.C. | Fabris probably means maker; ADL is signed "Fabris Bovolenta." | Engelmann 1; Michel 3; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL | USA, 1773-1838, MIM | Horary Quadrant, Aug. 20, 1792 = PEA-M9819. | author of "American Navigator." | Boston, Mass. | Bowditch; Brewington 1; Loring; Taylor 2(689); Burstyn; Bedini 8; DSB. | suggest correction |
| BOWE, JOHN | England, c.1699, | apprenticed to Thomas Cooke 2 of the Joiners' Company in 1699. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BOWEN, EMANUEL | England, fl.1720-67, MIM | Planisphere = Soth. 10/17/60-148. | geographer to George II, 1748-60. | Taylor 2(153). | suggest correction | |
| BOWEN, RICHARD | England, c.1678, MIM | apprenticed to Joseph Wells of the Clockmakers' Company; free of the Company on Dec. 2, 1678. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BOWEN, THOMAS | England, c.1830, OIM | 27 Market Place, Manchester. | Taylor 2(1785). | suggest correction | ||
| BOWER | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = D.(1976). | "Model Barometer". | St. Neats. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOWERMAN, R. | England?, c.1770, MIM | Gunter's Rule. | signature stamped, may be owner, though another name is carved on the rule. | Coffeen 55. | suggest correction | |
| BOWERS, JOHN | England, c.1761, | apprenticed to John Farmer 2 in the Joiners' Company on June 30, 1761. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BOWLES, DANIEL | England, c.1767, | apprenticed to John Atkinson 2 of the Grocers' Company on March 6, 1764; turned over to Richard Rust of the Company on March 26, 1767. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BOWLES, J.S. | England, c.1830, MIM | Quadrant Sundial, slate. 1830 = South Wilts. and Blackmore Museum, Salisbury. | Stevens and Aked. | suggest correction | ||
| BOWLES, THOMAS SALTER | USA, b.c.1765-1821, MIM NIM SIM | Surveyor's Compasses, wood = Bedini Coll., D.(pre-1967), P.C., Streeter Coll., Yale University / Bennington Museum, Vermont; Compass Card from surveying compass = Dartmouth College Museum, Hanover, New Hamp. | some compass cards engraved by Joseph Callender. | Portsmouth, New Hampshire. | Bedini 1 and 8; Smart 1; Price 2; USNM; D.J. Warner 10 and 12; DATM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOWLEY, WILLIAM | England, fl.1809-16, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X. | barometers signed "Bowley Salop"; also made thermometers; T.C. in FIT (WHI). | Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BOWMAN, EDMUND | USA?, 1785, MIM | Sundial, 1785 = Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| BOWMAN, ROBERT | Scotland, c.1802, OIM | Calton Hill Observatory, Edinburgh. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BOWSKILL | England, NIM | Marine Compass = Versailles 11/20/83. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOWYER, WILLIAM | England, 1630, MIM | Garden Sundial, copper, 1630 = Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. | clockmaker. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOXER, J. | England, 19th Century, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Phillips 2/2/84. | "warranted." | Folkestone. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOY DE MORNAS, CLAUDE | France, fl.1761-68 d.1783, MIM | Celestial Globe = HAY. | Paris; Lyon. | Yonge. | suggest correction | |
| BOYER | France, c.1800, MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundial = Appay, Cannes 5/14/88. | Amiens. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BOYER, J.H. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BOYLE, ROBERT | England, 1627-91, | scientist; invented the hydrometer and named it; developed an air pump at Oxford with Robert Hooke. | Oxford; London. | G.L'E. Turner 20; Middleton 1; USNM; DNB; DSB. | suggest correction | |
| BOYLING, CHRISTIAN | Germany, fl.1669-77, MIM SIM | Circumferentor, 1669 = GRA-7678; Artillery Levels = ROU-217 = Rosenheim-319 = ADL-M206 (1675), OXF (1677), Auction Sale, 1903 (1671); Augsburg-type Sundial, 1676 = NOR; Perpetual Calendars = Marouf III 3/27/71 (on base of sand-box), TIM = Christie 4/14/88 (on top of silver pill box, 1677). | the "y" in Boyling has an umlaut over it; "Mechanicus"; silver pill box has hall-mark for 1677. | Dresden. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; Engelmann 1; ADL; Evans 1; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BOYNTON, G.W. | England?, OIM | Telescope = D.(1978). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BR---- | England, NIM | Octant = Pannett Park Museum, Whitby. | ivory scale signed "SBR", for Spencer, Browning and Rust. | Bristol. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRABY | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Tunbridge Wells. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRACEGIRDLE | England, PHIM | Barometer with feet = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRACHER, GEORGE | England, fl.1826-38, MIM OIM PHIM | Telescopes = PEA, D.(1976), Dukes County Historical Society, Edgartown, Mass., Whalers' Village Museum, Lahine, Maui. | made telescopes for E.A. Kutz (1), New York, City; Taylor dated him a century earlier; telescopes signed "G. Bracher." | 19 King Street, Commercial Road, London. | Taylor 2(1496); O'Mara; Brewington 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRACHER, H. | England, c.1820, OIM | Telescope, refracting = Soth. 10/19/87. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRACHET | Germany, MIM | Universal Sundial, folding gnomon = P.B. 1/22/54-28. | Hannover. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRADBURN | England, c.1840, MIM | Gunter Rule, boxwood = D.(1975). | Birmingham. | Moskowitz 110. | suggest correction | |
| BRADBURY, A. | England, c.1822, MIM | 28 Hollis Street, Cavendish Square, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
| BRADDERLEY | England, 1760, MIM SIM | Theodolite, 1760 = X. | Taylor thinks may be same as J. Baddely. | Daumas 1; Taylor 2(578). | suggest correction | |
| BRADEL, JOSEPH | Germany, | see Joseph Bradl. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BRADFIELD, WILLIAM HENRY | England, fl.1838-46, OIM | 30 Royal Street, Lambeth, London. | Taylor 2(2085). | suggest correction | ||
| BRADFORD | England, c.1820, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Octant = Bowes Museum; Hadley Quadrant = OMM; Inclinable Sundials = Soth. 3/10/87, Gilbert 8/27/76, NOR; Telescopes = Soth. 3/12/62, D.(1982); Sextants = PEA, D.(1972), Historical Society of Delaware; Circumferentor = D.(1975); Marine Barometer = Phillips 10/26/83. | could be George, Isaac or John Bradford 2; all worked at same address; octant was given as a prize in 1863. | 99 Minories; 136 Minories; both in London. | Taylor 2(929 and 929a); Brewington 1; Moskowitz 108; Coffeen B; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRADFORD AND SON | England, c.1825, NIM | Octant = D.(1987). | 136 Minories, London. | Coffeen 15. | suggest correction | |
| BRADFORD, GEORGE | England, fl.1817-46, MIM NIM OIM | Hadley Quadrants, ebony = NMM, PEA; Sextants = PEA, Victory Museum, Portsmouth; Telescopes = PEA, P.C., HAM, Honfleur 6/17/79; Compass = AMST; Circumferentor = WHI. | uncle of John Omer; T.C. | 99 Minories (1817-36); near Tower Hill (1843); both in London. | Taylor 2(1284); Brewington 1; Soth. 7/7/78; Mörzer Bruyns 1; Moskowitz 108; Calvert 2; Crawforth 1; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRADFORD, I., AND SON | England, OIM | Telescope = DeLuca 8/1/87. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRADFORD, ISAAC | England, fl.1795-1822, MIM NIM | Mariner's Compass = Christie-SK 10 23/87. | T.C.; worked with his brother, John Bradford 2; see Isaac Bradford and Co.; see Isaac and John Bradford (2). | Wapping Old Stairs; 136 Minories; both in London. | Taylor 2(929); Collins 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRADFORD, ISAAC AND JOHN | England, fl.1795-1822, MIM NIM | Isaac Bradford and his brother, John Bradford 2. | 87 Bell Dock, Wapping (1795-1800); 69 Bell Dock, Wapping (1805-15); 136 Minories; all in London. | Taylor 2(929, 929a). | suggest correction | |
| BRADFORD, ISAAC, AND CO. | England, NIM | Octant, ebony = TIM (1987). | 136 Minories, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRADFORD, JOHN 1 | England, fl.1654-56, MIM | Taylor 1(261); Dewhirst; Evans 1; Clay and Court; Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BRADFORD, JOHN 2 | England, fl.1795-1822, MIM NIM | worked with his brother, Isaac Bradford, 1817-22. | London. | Taylor 2(929a); Coffeen B. | suggest correction | |
| BRADL, JOSEPH | Germany, fl.1756-70, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundial = AUG. | Oberhausen. | RSW . | suggest correction | |
| BRADLEE, J. | see John Bradley. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BRADLEY, JAMES 1 | England, 1693-1762, | Astronomer Royal, 1742-62; F.R.S.in 1719; made a clock-driven telescope with his uncle, James Pound in 1719; discovered the aberration of light, 1728, etc. | London. | Taylor 1(470)and 2(16); DNB; DSB; Dewhirst; Bedini 8. | suggest correction | |
| BRADLEY, JAMES 2 | England, c.1786, MIM | member of the Feltmakers' Company; took over Rowland Tiddler as an apprentice from William Morris of the Grocers' Company on Sept. 12, 1786; Tiddler became a MIM in the Grocers' Company. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BRADLEY, JOHN | England; Russia, fl.1710-16, MIM | Analemmatic Sundial = MLL; Universal Ring Sundial = GEL. | apprenticed to John Worgan of the Grocers' Company in 1697; turned over to Jonathan Roberts, Embroiderer; free of the Grocers' Company in 1704. | Navigation School, Moscow; Naval Academy, St. Petersburg (1715). | Taylor 2(17); Chenekal; J. Brown 1. | suggest correction |
| BRADSHAW, J. | England, | Water Clock, 1690 = Neumarkt 10/8/71. | surely a modern object. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRAGAZZI, A. AND J. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | see Bregazzi. | Ashburn. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BRAGONZI, P. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BRAHAM BROS. | England, MIM | Protractor and Parallel Rule = Christie-SK 3/31/83. | Bath. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRAHAM, JAMES | England, c.1850, MIM PHIM | Compass and Thermometer on column = Soth.-Chester 6/9/83; Wheel Barometer = X; Stick Barometer = D.(1973). | thermometer gives full name and address; wheel barometer signed "Braham Torquay"; "Clockmaker to the Duchess of Clarence." | 8 The Strand, Torquay. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRAHAM, JOHN | England, 1797-1856, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | Microscope = Wellcome Institute; Plotting Rule = OXF; Instrument = KEN; Telescope with stand = P.C.; Stick Barometers = X(2); Wheel Barometers = X(2), Christie-SK 10/20/89; Theodolite = D.(1979); Telescope, refracting = Soth. 3/10/87. | P.C. telescope, rule and one wheel barometer signed "Braham Bristol"; other telescope signed "Braham Bath"; one stick barometer signed "Braham Bath and Bristol." | 42 College Green, Bristol (1830); 8 Pulteney Bridge, Bath (1833); 10 St. Augustines Parade, Bristol (1833-42); 5 York Buildings, Bath (1837); 17 St. Augustines Parade, Bristol (1851-56). | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(1788); O'Mara; Bryden 9; RSW; Moskowitz 119; G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction |
| BRAHE, TYCHO | Denmark; Czechoslovakia, 1546-1601, | Pin Gnomon Sundial, 1578 = DEU. | astronomer; author; teacher; designer of many important large instruments that he used in his observatories on Hven and in Prague. | Hven; Prague. | Brahe; Dreyer; Michel 3; Repsold; Raeder and Strömgren; Maddison; Grimaldi; Tooley; Price 2; DSB; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction |
| BRAMAN, J. | England, pre-1867, MIM | Instrument = Royal Institution. | invented and made by J. Braman; belonged to Faraday. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRAMBANA AND CO. | England, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 3/7/75. | see P. Brambano. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRAMBANO, P. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | see Brambana and Co. | Evesham. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BRAMEN, THOMAS | Holland, c.1675, MIM | planetarium mentioned in 1765 collection catalogue. | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRAMER, BENJAMIN | Holland; Germany; Czech., 1588-1652, | brother-in-law and student of Jost Bürgi; author; architect to the Prince Elector in Marburg; may have been the father of Willem Bramer, according to Rooseboom; made improvements to some surveying instruments. | Kassel (1591-1604); Prague (1604-09); Kassel (1609-12); Marburg (1612-30); Kassel (1630-34); Ziegenhain (1635-52). | Zinner 1; Michel 3; DSB; Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRAMER, PAULUS | Holland, 18th Century, MIM | Cube Sundials = Spitzer-2852, Ken-93. | may be one sundial. | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1; Zinner 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction |
| BRAMER, WILLEM | Holland, fl.1686-1734, MIM | clockmaker; Rooseboom thought that he might be son of Benjamin Bramer. | Zwolle. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRANCHLE, T. | Germany, | I. Brauchle?. | Munich. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRAND FRERES | Belgium, c.1800, MIM SIM | Augsburg-type Sundial, case = D.(1972); Graphometer = Soth. 3/10/87. | Brand Frères; "Opticiens du Roi." | Brussels. | Moskowitz 104; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRAND, G. 1 | see Gerardus Brand. | suggest correction | ||||
| BRAND, G. 2 | see Georg Brand. | suggest correction | ||||
| BRAND, GEORG | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Ring Sundial = OXFB-34; Equatorial Sundial = OXFB-101. | Zinner thought he might be Gerardus Brand. | Augsburg. | Zinner 1; Josten. | suggest correction |
| BRAND, GERARDUS | Holland, 1594-1659, MIM | Diptych Sundials = NOR, LIN, MOS (1653); Sundial, pocket = Maritime Museum, Groningen; Equatorial Sundial = OXF; Hour Scale from Compass Sundial = NOR; Sundial, oval, in ivory box = MERC = McVitty Coll. = P.B. 1/22/54-53. | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1; Zinner 1; Hamilton 1 & 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRAND, J. | Holland, | see Gerardus Brand. | Hamilton 1 and 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BRANDEGGER | Germany, c.1800, MIM NIM | Measuring Instrument = Stuker 11/22/66; Sextants = BAM, Soth. 6/23/87. | Ellwangen. | Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRANDER AND CO. | England, c.1760, NIM | Compass in gimbals = D.(1971). | signed on compass card. | 82 Minories, London. | Moskowitz 102. | suggest correction |
| BRANDER UND HOSCHEL | Germany, 1774-83, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Alidade, large = AUG; Reflecting Quadrant = ADL-M184; Sextants = OXF, Christie-SK 4/17/86; Theodolite = Soth. 4/22/65-49; Microscope = KEN; Meridian Compasses = D., P.C.; Instrument Set, silver = OXF; Artillery Level = BAM; Meridian Sundial = AMST; Equatorial Sundials = ADL-W228, Harburg Museum, DEU, ZUR; Protractors, full = Christie-SK 4/17/86, Huelsmann Coll. (with vernier); Compass = P.C. (1987). | Georg Friedrich Brander and his son-in-law, Christof Kaspar Höschel. | Augsburg. | Zinner 1; Bobinger 2; Brachner; Wissner; Mörzer Bruyns 1; Engelmann 1; J.A. Bennett 2; Syndram; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRANDER, C.G., AND SON | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Soth. 6/1/88. | includes an "Improved Sympiesometer." | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRANDER, GEORG FRIEDRICH | Germany, 1713-83, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | noted prolific instrument maker; his instruments are found in many museums,the principal collection being at DEU; the quality ranges from magnificent to mediocre. | pupil of J.G. Doppelmayer in Nürnberg; invented quite a few new types of instruments, star-finder and mirror dividers, etc.; took his son-in-law, Christof Kasper Höschel, as a partner, 1744-83; one of the microsopes at the DEU is signed "G. F. Brander Ratisb." (Regensburg); most of the instruments however have Augsburg as an address. | Regensburg; Augsburg (1734). | Zinner 1; Brachner; Wissner; Daumas 1; Maddison 5; Bobinger 2; Michel 3; Price 3; Ward 4; Bonelli 1; Pipping 1; USNM; Nachet; Clay and Court; J.A. Bennett 2; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRANDER, J.F. | Germany, | misreading for G.F. Brander. | NAC. | suggest correction | ||
| BRANDIS AND SONS | USA, fl.1916-20, NIM | Sextants = USNM, ADL-L46b, D.(1990). | ADL is on loan from Navy; D. marked "No. 3227", its frame marked "Navy 845." | Brooklyn, N.Y. | ADL; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRANDIS, F.E., SONS AND CO. | USA, fl.1890-1916, NIM | Mechanical Navigator = USNM; Wye Level = Gurley Museum, Troy, N.Y. | Brooklyn, N.Y. | USNM; Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRANDRETH AND WILLDEY | England, fl.1711-13, MIM OIM | Timothy Brandreth and George Willdey; "late servants to Mr. Yarwell and Mr. Sterrop"; produced maps; T.C. | Sign of Archimedes and Globe, Ludgate Street (1711); in Exchange Alley running out of Cornhill (1712); both in London. | Taylor 1(498 and 517); Calvert 2; Crawforth 1; Tyacke 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRANDRETH, TIMOTHY | England, 1677-1714, MIM OIM | apprenticed to John Yarwell and Ralph Sterrop of the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1693; free of the Company, 1701; took apprentices; made instruments, as journeyman, for John Marshall; partner to George Willdey, 1707-13; made maps. | Sign of the Archimedes and Globe, near Ludgate (1711); in Exchange Alley running out of Cornhill (1712); both in London. | Taylor 1(517); Clay and Court; Evans 1; Tyacke 1; Court and von Rohr 3(69). | suggest correction | |
| BRANDT, G. | see Gerardus or Georg Brand. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BRANHAM, JAMES | England, | misreading for James Braham. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BRASELMANN, JOHANN PET. | Germany, fl.1776-79, PHIM | Money Scales = HAK (1779), DRE, Phillips 4/20/83; Balances = Pharmacy Museum, Cracow, Phillips 2/2/84. | Wichlinghausen in Oberbarman. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRASHER, G. | England, OIM | Telescope = MYS. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRASSI, F. HIERONOMI | Italy1591, MIM | Azimuth Quadrant, 1591 = POB. | also signed "Graecius." | Destombes 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRAUCHLE, I. | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Universal Ring Sundials = SLM, OXF. | OXF is on stand with compass. | Munich. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; Evans 1. | suggest correction |
| BRAUCHLER, I. | surely I. Brauchle. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BRAUER | Germany, 19th Century, MIM | Transit = KEN. | J.A. Bennett 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BRAUN, ANTONIUS | Czechoslovakia; Austria, 1685-1728, MIM NIM OIM | Sundial, silver and brass, 1716 = OXF; Astrolabe with compass, 1716 = Lanna Coll-1220; Universal Ring Sundial on stand, 1719 = ADL-M313; Ring Sundial, 1720 = Miller Coll.; Parallel Rule, 1722 = Warren Coll. = P.B. 10/9/43-120; Telescope, parchment = DEU-34362; Astronomical Instrument = Auction Sale, 1943; Linear Rule, 1722 = D.(1987). | linear rule signed "Invenit et Fecit"; Price and Daumas say the telescope was marked "de Löwenfeld"; developed a multiplying machine. | Prague (1720); Vienna (1724). | Zinner 1; Culver 1; Habacher; Daumas 1; Engelmann 1; Price 2; A.J. Turner 10; ADL; cOFFEEN 17; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRAUND, J. | England, c.1690, PHIM | Barometer with Thermometer = Soth., Wilkinson and Hodge 2/9/23. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRAUNHOFFER, MATHIAS | Germany, 1759, MIM | Circle Measuring Instrument, 1759 = Pressburg Museum. | Augsburg. | Fischer. | suggest correction | |
| BRAUNMULLER, JOSEF ANTON | Germany, 1763-1800, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundials = AUG, ZUR. | signed "Anton Braunmüller." | Augsburg. | Zinner 1; Bobinger 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRAUNSHARDT | Germany, OIM | Telescope, ivory and brass = DRE (lost). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BRAY, JOHN | England?, c.1820, MIM SIM | Surveying Compasses = P.C., D.(1978). | Moskowitz 116; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BREAKS, THOMAS | England, 1771, | improved the theodolite; author. | Moskowitz 104. | suggest correction | ||
| BRECAZZI | England, | misreading for Bregazzi. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BRECHTE, ROGER | France?, 1537, MIM | Vertical Sundial with Quadrant and Calendar, 1537 = OXF. | Gunther 2; Michel 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BRECKNEEL | England, c.1850, PHIM | Balance = K. and C. 7/13/73. | Birmingham. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BREE, CORNELIS JANSZ. DE | Holland, c.1672, NIM | marine compass maker; head of the compass makers guild in 1672. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| BREE, WEDUWE CORN. DE | Holland, c.1744, NIM | compass maker; widow of Corn. de Bree. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2 & 5. | suggest correction | |
| BREED, AARON | USA, 1791-1861; fl.1810-60, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Surveying Compass, wood = Old Sturbridge Village Museum, Mass.; Surveying Compass, brass = Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich.; Marine Compass, dry = DeLuca Auction 3/21/81. | T.C. | at the Sign of the Quadrant, No. 2 Rowe's Wharf, opposite Purchase Street; No. 166 Broad, corner of Purchase Street; No. 143 Broad Street, head of India Wharf; all in Boston, Mass. | Bedini 1 and 8; Smart 1; USNM; D.J. Warner; Chaldecott; DATM. | suggest correction |
| BREEM BURGH, JAN | Holland, c.1740?, NIM | Compass Card = AMST. | marked on the back "Iacob de Iong in Amsterdam"; Jong may be the maker. | Edam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2. | suggest correction |
| BREESE, JAS. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-S 10/19/89. | Wisbech. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BREGAZZI 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | probably Samuel Bregazzi, which see. | Derby. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BREGAZZI 2 | England, c.1790, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = D.(1970), X(2), Phillips, Son and Neall Jan. 1971. | probably Innocent or Peter Bregazzi; D. and Phillips barometers signed "Breggazzi". | Nottingham. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BREGAZZI, INNOCENT | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Dursley. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BREGAZZI, IT. AND PR. | England, fl.1825-34, PHIM | made barometers and thermometers; Innocent and Peter Bregazzi, brothers; T.C. | High Pavement, Nottingham. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BREGAZZI, J.P. | England, c.1800, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie-SK 10/20/89. | Nottingham. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BREGAZZI, J.P. AND T. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2). | probably Innocent and Peter Bregazzi. | High Pavement, Nottingham. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BREGAZZI, PETER | England, fl.1825-42, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2). | barometers signed "P. Bregazzi"; worked with his brother, Innocent, 1825-34. | Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham (1840-42). | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BREGAZZI, S., AND CO. | England, c.1809, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2), Soth. 12/17/87. | Willow Row, Derby. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BREGAZZI, SAMUEL | England, c.1830, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X (2); Barometer, Thermometer and timepiece in Gothic tower = John Harrison, 1830 = Bagshaws of Ashbourne Auction House, July, 1946; Angle Barometer = Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. | wheel barometers signed "S. Bregazzi"; one says "Darby." | Queen Street, Derby. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BREGENS, BENEDICT | Germany, 1690, OIM | Burning Glass, 1690 = FLO-2545. | Dresden. | Bonelli 1. | suggest correction | |
| BREGNA | see Grassi, Bregna and Origoni. | Taylor 2(1869). | suggest correction | |||
| BREGUET, ABRAHAM-LOUIS | France, 1747-1823, PHIM | Thermometers = Christie 7/16/68-173, BM; Pedometer = BM. | watchmaker; invented bi-metallic thermometer, 1820. | Paris. | G.L'E. Turner 24; C. Breguet; Ward 4. | suggest correction |
| BREGUET, ANTOINE LOUIS | France, c.1770, MIM | Paris. | C. Breguet. | suggest correction | ||
| BREGUET, LOUIS-FRANCOIS-CLEMENT | France, 1804-83, PHIM | Thermometer = FLO-367; Resistor = FLO-494. | Louis-François-Clement Breguet; grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet. | Paris. | Bonelli 1; C. Breguet; DSB. | suggest correction |
| BREHMER, E.F. | Sweden, c.1855, MIM | Kammakargatan 62; Normalmsgaten 20; both in Stockholm. | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BREITHAUPT, CARL WILHELM | Germany, c.1790, MIM | son of Johann Christian Breithaupt; brother of Friedrich Wilhelm Breithaupt; made astronomical instruments. | Kassel. | J.A. Bennett 2; von Mackenson 3. | suggest correction | |
| BREITHAUPT, F.W., UND SOHNE | Germany, c.1850, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | Theodolites = DRE, Clock Museum, Warsaw, Christie 12/12/72; Meter = P.C.(1973); Compass = DRE. | also made balances; they were in the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. | Kassel, Hesse, Prussia. | G.L'E. Turner 24; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW; von Mackenson 3. | suggest correction |
| BREITHAUPT, FREDRICK WILLIAM | Germany, 1780-1855, MIM | Artillery Level = Christie 4/9/75; Mining Compass = P.C.; Sundial, watch-type = USNM. | succeeded his father, J.C. Breithaupt. | Kassel. | Zinner 1; Daumas 1; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW; von Mackenson. | suggest correction |
| BREITHAUPT, JOHAN CHRISTIAN | Germany, 1736-99, MIM OIM | Ruling Engine = KAS; Mural Quadrant = KAS; Semi-Circles = KAS (2). | succeeded by his son, Fredrick William Breithaupt. | Kassel. | Zinner 1; Kirchvogel; Daumas 1; J.A. Bennett 2; von Mackenson 3. | suggest correction |
| BREITINGER | Switzerland, PHIM | Stick Barometer = DEU. | Zurich. | Middleton 1. | suggest correction | |
| BREMER, GABRIEL | Sweden, fl.1770-90, OIM | apprenticed to Henrik Holmbom. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRENNER | see Bener. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BRENNER AND SIBE | Denmark, fl.1556-1600, MIM | Astronomical Clock = ROS. | Copenhagen. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRENNER, STEFFEN | Denmark, fl.1556-1602, MIM | Astrolabe Clock, 1588 = Tihloror Museum, Lubeck. | see Brenner and Sibe. | Copenhagen. | Baillie 1; Maurice 1. | suggest correction |
| BRENTA, DOMINICUS | Italy; Holland, fl.1760-85, PHIM | Barometer = P.C. | also made mirrors. | Varenna (-1760); Holland. | USNM. | suggest correction |
| BRENTA, JOSEPH | Holland, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Christie 4/28/82. | Amsterdam. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRENTEL, GEORG | Germany, fl.1573-1619, MIM | Chalice Sundial, paper, 1608 = CRT. | also designed various types of sundials; Price thought Brentel was from Nürnberg. | Lauingen. | Zinner 1; Price 2. | suggest correction |
| BRESTBARTA, C. | England, c.1830, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth., 6/6/96. | Northampton. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRETON | France, c.1850, PHIM | Thermometer = Versailles 11/20/83. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BRETON FRERES | France, c.1840, MIM OIM PHIM | Model of Rack and Pinion = Soth. 11/21/74; Solar Microscope = A-P 3/15/76; Model Jack = OXF; Equatorial Sundial = Gersaint 7/20/96. | Breton Frères. | Rue Dauphine 23 (25), Paris. | G.L'E. Turner 24; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BREWING | misreading for Browning. | Peron et Corsy, Melun 6/10/79. | suggest correction | |||
| BREWSTER, DAVID | Scotland1781-1868, | scientist; invented the kaleidoscope; held various patents including a micrometer telescope with William Harris 1, c.1809; F.R.S. in 1815; author. | Edinburgh. | Taylor 2(1088); Dewhirst; G.L'E. Turner 24; DNB; DSB; Wynter 1; Morrison-Low 4; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BREZI | see Brzezi. | suggest correction | ||||
| BRIANT, G. | England, c.1703, | bookseller with R. Billing; may have been instrument makers. | King's Head, Cornhill, London. | Taylor 1(536). | suggest correction | |
| BRICKHEAD | see Birkhead. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BRICKHILL, JAMES | England, c.1688, MIM | apprenticed, by turnover, to Robert Jole of the Clockmakers' Company, for eight years, on Oct. 5, 1668. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BRIDGER, RICHARD | England, fl.1707-17, MIM PHIM | apprenticed to Francis Hauksbee 1; carried on the business for Hauksbee's widow; see Vream and Bridger. | Upper end of Hind Court, Fleet Street, London. | Goodison 1; Taylor 1(551) and 2(18); Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRIDGES, HENRY | England, fl.1730-41, MIM | Astronomical Clock, monumental = X. | Waltham Abbey. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRIDGES, THOMAS | Englandc.1761, MIM | apprenticed to Christopher Jacobs; ran away before 7/20/1761. | Wolverhampton. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| BRIEF, FRANCIS | England?, 1575?, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial = ADL-M318. | Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BRIERE | France, 1789, MIM | Sectors = Wray Sale, VCW, NYC-156-27-349; Square = D.(1964); Set of Drafting Instruments, silver, 1789 = P.C.; Graphometer = KEN. | Brière; the drafting set is signed on the protractor. | Paris. | Industrial Museum of New York Cat.; Bedini 8; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRIGGS | see Lewis and Briggs. | Taylor 2(623). | suggest correction | |||
| BRIGGS, FRANCIS | England, c.1718, MIM | apprenticed to William Bennett of the Clockmakers' Company on May 5, 1718. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BRIGGS, JAMES | England, c.1804, | apprenticed to Ebenezer Hoppé in the Joiners' Company on Jan. 10, 1804. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BRIGGS, MATTHEW | England, c.1785, MIM | apprenticed to Edward Roberts 1 in the Joiners' Company on June 7, 1785; made excise insruments. | London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| BRIGGS, WILLIAM | England, c.1819, MIM | globe maker; worked for Thomas Marriott Bardin in 1819. | London. | Millburn 11. | suggest correction | |
| BRIGHTLY, CHARLES H. | USA, 1816-97, MIM SIM | Wye Level = Gurley Museum, Troy, N.Y. | partner with Charles S. Heller in Heller and Brightly, 1870-89; initial is H. or S. | Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM; Smart 1. | suggest correction |
| BRIGUET | Germany, c.1800, MIM | Quadrant with equation of time, silver = Evans Coll. | Paris. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRIN, N. | Germany, 17th Century, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial = O-P-6. | Nürnberg. | Monreal. | suggest correction | |
| BRIND, WILLIAM | England, PHIM | T.C.; "from Mr, Reed's." | at the Hand and Scales in Carey Lane in Foster Lane, Cheapside, London. | Calvert 2. | suggest correction | |
| BRINK, VAN DEN | Holland, c.1830, | see Krap and van den Brink. | Rotterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRINKMAN, C., AND D.B. SELTER | Holland, c.1860, MIM NIM | makers and repairers of instruments; T.C. in octant box at BRE. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRINKMAN, J.G. | Germany, 18th Century, OIM | Microscope = UTR. | Bremen. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRIOT, I.F. | France, 19th Century, MIM | Floating Sundial, paper = ADL-N10. | manuscript. | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRIOYS, JEAN | 1644, MIM SIM | Circumferentor, 1644 = DOR. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BRISCALL | England, PHIM | Barometer = D.(1972). | Birmingham. | John Bell. | suggest correction | |
| BRISSYEUS, STEPHEN | France, pre-1690, MIM OIM | mentioned by Bonanni in 1690 as an instrument maker. | Grenoble. | Dewhirst; Clay and Court. | suggest correction | |
| BRISTOW, JOHN | England, fl.1775-95, MIM | engine-maker (instruments). | 47 Ratcliff Highway; 12 Mansion House Street; both in London. | Taylor 2(691). | suggest correction | |
| BRISTOW, MARGARET AND JAMES | England, c.1820, MIM | probably daughter and son of John Bristow; T.C. | Taylor 2(691). | suggest correction | ||
| BRISTOW, MARY | England, fl.1796-1805, MIM | widow of John Bristow; presumably mother of Margaret and James Bristow. | London.. | Taylor 2(691). | suggest correction | |
| BRISTOW, MARY, AND SONS | England, c.1805, MIM | widow and sons of John Bristow. | London. | Taylor 2(691). | suggest correction | |
| BRIT, WALTER | England, 1395, MIM | Horary Quadrant, 1395 = OXF? | Gunther 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BRITTON, W. | England, c.1840, OIM | Goring Aplanatic Engiscope = Crisp Coll. | Taylor 2(2087); Clay and Court. | suggest correction | ||
| BROADBELT, MICHAEL | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Knaresborough. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BROADHURST, CLARKSON AND CO. | England, c.1850, OIM | Telescope, refracting = Soth. 6/23/87. | 63 Farringdon Road, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BROCI | England, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 10/19/87. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BROCK, B. | England, c.1753, OIM | Solar Microscope = X. | see G. Brock. | London. | Taylor 2(443). | suggest correction |
| BROCK, G. | England, c.1775, OIM | Solar Microscope = X. | may be same as B. Brock. | London. | Clay and Court. | suggest correction |
| BROCOT | Germany?, PHIM | Barometer on clock = Keglemann Auctionhaus 6/8/74. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BRODARD | France, c.1800, PHIM | made barometers. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRODERICK, WILLIAM | Ireland, c.1824, PHIM | Barometer and Thermometer on clock = Armagh County Museum, The Mall. | Dublin. | Stevens and Aked; G. Fennel; Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | |
| BRODSORG, S. | see S.B. 1. | Gunther 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BROEDE, H. | Holland, c.1742, NIM | compass maker. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| BROEN, JOANNES DE | c.1650, MIM | Celestial and Terrestrial Globes = Lehmann Sale-307. | only one is signed. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BROGGI, GILLANDO | England, fl.1826-28, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = P.B. 5/31/39, X(6), Soth. 5/14/87 = 10/22/87; Stick Barometer = X. | stick barometer signed "Broggi Chelmsford"; some wheel barometers are signed "G. Broggi", two are signed "G. Broggi Chelmsford", one is "G. Brogi", others, "G. Broggio." | Maulsham, Chelmsford. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(1789); RSW. | suggest correction |
| BROGGIO, G. | see Gillando Broggi. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BROGI, G. | see Gillando Broggi. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BROKAW, ISAAC | USA, c.1771, MIM | may have been instrument maker; son-in-law of Aaron Miller. | Philadelphia Pa.; New Jersey? | Bedini 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BROMAN, ANDERS | Sweden, c.1816, PHIM | Electrical Machine = SWE. | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BROME | see Broom. | Taylor 1(368). | suggest correction | |||
| BRONLUND, R.J. | Sweden?, c.1850, NIM | Marine Compass = OMM. | Porsgrunn. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRONNE, JOHN | T.C.; misreading for John Browne (3). | Pearsall. | suggest correction | |||
| BROOK, ABRAHAM | England, c.1789, PHIM | Barometer with Thermometer - USNM. | devised an electrometer; barometer and thermometer signed "Brook Norwich." | Norwich. | USNM; Schuman Cat. XXIII, 1970. | suggest correction |
| BROOKE | England, MIM | Dividers, iron = Soth. 10/15/73. | Sheffield. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BROOKE, CHRISTOPHER | see Christopher Brookes. | Taylor 1(230); J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BROOKE, JACOBUS | England, 1698, MIM | Sundial, rectangular, 1698 = Soth. 2/5/53 = P.C. (1990). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BROOKES AND HAWKES | England, NIM | Binnacle Compass = Christie-SK 2/9/79. | Birmingham. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BROOKES, CHRISTOPHER | England, fl.1649-51, MIM | apprenticed to Elias Allen of the Grocers' Company in 1629; free of the Company, 1639; married to the daughter of William Oughtred; worked in metal; designed and made quadrants and planispheres; the name sometimes appears as Brooks. | Oxford. | Taylor 1(230); J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
| BROOKES, THOMAS | England, 1695, MIM | Gunner's Calipers = D.(1994). | might be owner? | Coffeen X (1994). | suggest correction | |
| BROOKS | England, c.1850, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Microscope = Christie 5/26/76; Wheel Barometer = Soth. 7/21/83; Augsburg-type Sundial = Soth. 3/10/87; Drum Sextant = Kelton Coll. (1990). | Ludgate Street, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BROOKSBY, THOMAS | England, PHIM | free of the Blacksmiths' Company 24 years after he was apprenticed; scalemaker. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BROOM | England, c.1674, OIM | glass grinder for Robert Hooke. | St. Paul's Churchyard, London. | Taylor 1(368). | suggest correction | |
| BROSONI, M. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Brighton. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BROSSET FRERES | France, c.1855, MIM OIM SIM | Surveying Compass = Peron et Corsy, Melun 6/10/79; Telescopic Level = D.(1975). | "Brosset Frères." | 22 Puedes Fianes-Bourgeois, Paris. | J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BROUGHTON, WILLIAM | England, 1679, MIM | Nocturnal, fruitwood, 1679 = Soth. 2/2/76. | "for both Bears." | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BROURBER, ALEXANDER | see Alexander Brourbrer. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BROURBRER, ALEXANDER | MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, small = Roussel Sale-234. | Michel 3; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BROUSSON, MARC HENR | Germany, MIM | Pedometer = Evans Coll. = OXF? | accent mark over `n' in Henr. | Neirwied. | Evans 1. | suggest correction |
| BROUWER, REINIER | Holland, c.1708, NIM | Marine Compass = WMH. | Hoorn. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| BROWGI, GILLANDO | see Gillando Broggi. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BROWN 1 | England, 1792-96, NIM OIM | Octant, 1792 = RSM; Hadley Quadrant, 1796 = MYS. | Bristol. | Bryden 9; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN 2 | England, c.1799, OIM | made telescopes. | Taylor 2(930); Daumas 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWN 3 | England, c.1850, OIM | Microscope = D.(1980). | signed "Brown London", but might be of French origin. | London. | Moskowitz 121. | suggest correction |
| BROWN 4 | see Browne. | suggest correction | ||||
| BROWN AND CHALMERS | Scotland, fl.1838-42, NIM | George B. Brown or H. Brown and James S. Chalmers. | 37 Bridge Street (1838-40); 48 Bridge Street (1841-42); both in Leith. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN AND HEARTTE | USA, fl.1830-31, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Surveying Compass = GUR. | John G. Brown and Isaac T. Heartte; T.C. | at the Sign of the Quadrant, Baltimore, Md. (1830). | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction |
| BROWN AND HUNT | USA, fl.1834-37, MIM NIM OIM | Sextants = Peabody Museum, Yale University. | Edmund Brown and Harvey W. Hunt; T.C. | Sign of the Compass Card, 190 Water Street (1834-35); Sign of the Compass, 27 Fulton, one door from Water Street, near Holt's Hotel (1835-37); both in New York, N.Y. | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction |
| BROWN, ANDREW | Scotland, fl.1817-21, MIM | 100 High Street, Glasgow. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWN, B. | Scotland, PHIM | Double Barometer = P.C. | Edinburgh. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, BENJAMIN | England, fl.1797-1831, MIM NIM OIM | Octant = MYS; Telescope = WHI; Crown Compass = PEA. | may be Brown 1 or 2; sometimes spelled Browne; T.C.; foul anchor on scale of octant; telescope signed "Browne Bristol"; the crown compass at PEA is signed "B. Browne Bristol" but has three other cards on top; see I.I. Borger, James Gale, and Gray and Lisset. | the Quay (1813); Quay and 14 Wilson Street (1814-24); 2 Old Park Hill and opposite Crane No. 7 (1829-31); all in Bristol. | Taylor 2(930a and 1497); Bryden 9; Brewington 1. | suggest correction |
| BROWN, BUSH G. | USA, 1820-63, MIM | see E. Brown and Son. | New York, N.Y. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, D., AND SON | USA, c.1833, MIM NIM | owned their own dividing engine. | Providence, R.I. | Bedini 8. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, DAVID STEPHENS | England, PHIM | made self-acting sympiesometer and barometer. | Eton Lodge, Ashby Road, Islington, London. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, E., AND SON | USA, fl.1841-63, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | Surveying Compass = P.C.; Transit = WHI; Octant = USNM; Theodolite = D.(1981). | T.C. at PEA; T.C. in box of Gennert and Holzke Wye Level; Edmund Brown and Son; octant signed "E.W. Brown and Son." | New York, N.Y. | Brewington 1; USNM; Smart 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; Coffeen H; Moskowitz 122; Garcelon 33. | suggest correction |
| BROWN, E.W., AND SON | see E. Brown and Son. | suggest correction | ||||
| BROWN, GEORGE | Scotland, 1650-1730, MIM | Rotulas Arithmetica = RSM (1699,incomplete), (1699), (1700), (1701). | Rev. George Brown; patented his Rotula Arithmetica, a simple calculator, in 1698. | Edinburgh. | Bryden 15; Morrison-Low 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BROWN, GEORGE B. | Scotland, fl.1836-37, NIM | H. Brown probably was his brother. | 38 Shore, Leith. | Taylor 2(2088); Bryden 3. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, GEORGE G. | England, c.1850, NIM | Binnacle = MAN-I65. | compass rose signed "Imray, Son and Co. London." | London. | Garcia 1. | suggest correction |
| BROWN, H. | Scotland, c.1837, NIM | George B. Brown was probably his brother. | 38 Shore, Leith. | Taylor 2(2088a); Bryden 3. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, H.L., AND SON | England, PHIM | Aneroid Barometer = D.(1976). | Sheffield. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, J., AND C.S. FRANCIS | USA, c.1836, MIM OIM | astronomical instrument makers. | New York, N.Y. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, JAMES | Scotland, fl.1773-89, PHIM | Hydrostatic Glass Bubbles = RSM (4). | T.C.; made hydrostatical bubbles invented by Alexander Wilson; the business was continued by William Twadell from 1789 to 1792. | Irongate, Glasgow. | Calvert 2; Crawforth 1; Bryden 3; Clarke et al; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BROWN, JOHN 1 | England, fl.1654-97, MIM OIM PHIM | Nocturnal, boxwood = Gabb Coll. = NMM-N.20; Triangular Quadrant, fragment = OXF; Quadrant, ivory = BM-1923/2/6-2; White's Rule, 1663 = Pepys; Timber Rule, small, 1663 = Pepys; Spiral Calculator, 1664 = Pepys; Telescope, 1666 = Pepys; Perspective Instrument (Wren's design), 1669 = Pepys; Vertical Sundial, boxwood = NMM-D.341. | son of Thomas Brown 1; father of Thomas Brown 2; apprenticed in the Joiners' Company; free in the Company sometime between 1627 and 1654; see J.B. 2; admitted to the Clockmakers' Company in 1667 as a Brother; took apprentices; Master of the Company in 1681; T.C.; invented a triangular quadrant; see Crawforth 7 for further information. | see Brown, John 1 (cont.). | see Brown, John 1 (cont.). | suggest correction |
| BROWN, JOHN 1 (CONT.) | Dukes Place (1661); Sign of the Sun Dyal (later Sphere and Sun Dial or Sphere and Dial), Minories; both near Aldgate, London. | Taylor 1(224); Goodison 1; Dewhirst; Latham and Matthews, vols. 4,5,7,9; Price 3; Ward 4; Wynter and Turner; Daumas 1; Calvert 2; J. Brown 1 and 3; NMM 2; Clay and Court; Crawforth 7; Robischon; Rabone 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BROWN, JOHN 10 | Scotland, 1708, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial, 1708 = Bowland, Galashiels. | Edinburgh. | Somerville. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, JOHN 2 | England, c.1654, MIM | apprenticed to John Johnson 1 in the Joiners' Company, Jan. 8, 1627; free of the Company on Aug. 7, 1654; may be John Brown 1. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWN, JOHN 3 | Englandc.1627, MIM | apprenticed to William Hammond of the Joiners' Company in 1627; may be John Brown 1. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWN, JOHN 4 | England, c.1629, MIM | apprenticed to Henry Wylan in the Joiners" Company, 1629; may be John Brown 1. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWN, JOHN 5 | England, c.1635, MIM | apprenticed to Christopher Turner in the Joiners' Company, 1635; may be John Brown 1. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWN, JOHN 6 | England, fl.1642-99, MIM | had fourteen apprentices in the Joiners' Company; could have been John Brown 1-5 or another man. | London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, JOHN 7 | England, c.1703, MIM | apprenticed to Walter Henshaw of the Clockmakers' Company on Feb. 13, 1703. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWN, JOHN 8 | England, c.1808, | apprenticed to John Corless in the Joiners' Company on May 3, 1808. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWN, JOHN 9 | England, c.1830, OIM | 51 Dean Street, Newcastle. | Taylor 2(1790). | suggest correction | ||
| BROWN, JOHN G. | USA, 1805-post-48, MIM | worked for Richard Patten for many years in New York, N.Y.; partner with Isaac T. Heartte as Brown and Heartte, 1830. | New York, N.Y.; Baltimore, Md. (1830-39); Washington, D.C. | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, JOHN ROGERS | USA, 1810-76, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass = X. | invented first automatic machine for graduating rules, 1850. | Providence, R.I. | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction |
| BROWN, JOSEPH R. | USA, c.1852, MIM | made rules, standards. | Providence, R.I. | DATM. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, M. | England, c.1802, OIM | made a special type of telescope. | London. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, R., AND SONS | England, c.1850, PHIM | balance makers. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWN, S.G. | USA, NIM | Marine Compass in binnacle = K. and C. 3/19/75. | may be S.B. Brown. | Watfford. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BROWN, T. | England, | Water Clock, variant, 1631 = D.(1973). | modern work. | York. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BROWN, THOMAS 1 | England, fl.1627-53, MIM | Gunter's Quadrant, circular, ivory = P.C.(1987). | sometimes spelled `Browne'; father of John Brown 1; apprenticed to Launcelot Smith in the Joiners' Company; free of the Company in 1623; took apprentices; made a circular, wooden slide rule in 1631; made Napier's bones, etc. | The Globe, Fenchurch Street, near Northumberland Alley, Aldgate, Minories, London. | Taylor 1(154); Dewhirst; Evans 1; Clay and Court; Daumas 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BROWN, THOMAS 2 | England, fl.1676-79, MIM | apprenticed by turnover to his father, John Brown 1, of the Clockmakers' Company, on April 5, 1669; free of the Company, July 3, 1676; took an apprentice; "Thomas Browne" was an alternative spelling. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWN, W.H., AND CO. | England, 19th Century, MIM | Slide Rule, boxwood, with index = D.(1986). | Birmingham. | Coffeen 13. | suggest correction | |
| BROWN, WILLIAM | England, c.1797, | apprenticed to John Browning 1 of the Grocers' Company on Jan. 5, 1797. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWNE, B. | England, fl.1797-1831, MIM | T.C. at PEA; see Benjamin Brown. | The Quay, Bristol. | Taylor 2(930a); Brewington 1. | suggest correction | |
| BROWNE, DANIEL | England, fl.1614-34, MIM | made brass instruments. | Cricklade, London. | Taylor 1(127); Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| BROWNE, JOHN 1 | England, | see John Brown 1. | Calvert 2; Robischon; Rabone 1; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWNE, JOHN 2 | England, c.1650, | apprenticed to John Brown 6 in the Joiners' Company in 1650. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWNE, JOHN 3 | England, fl.1750-75, NIM | Backstaff = Soth. 1960. | also made compasses; T.C. | near Wapping Old Stairs; Southwark; both in London. | Taylor 2(450); Calvert 2; Crawforth 1. | suggest correction |
| BROWNE, JOHN 4 | England, c.1750, NIM | compass maker. | No. 5 Stoney Lane near Pickle Herring Stairs, Southwark, London. | Delehar 1. | suggest correction | |
| BROWNE, ROBERT | England, fl.1705-30, | devised sextants and quadrants. | near St Katherine's Dock, London. | Taylor 1(548). | suggest correction | |
| BROWNE, WILLIAM | England, c.1790, NIM | Hadley's Quadrant = Soth. 3/10/87. | might possibly be William Brown, which see. | Wapping, London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BROWNELL, FRANKLIN C. | USA, fl.1855-60+, | educator; hired by Dwight Holbrook in 1855 as a promoter, wrote manuals; he founded the American School Apparatus Co. of New York, N.Y. in the 1860s. | Hartford, Conn.; New York, N.Y. | D,J. Warner 4. | suggest correction | |
| BROWNING 1 | England, c.1780-1830, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Spectroscopes = OXF. | probably John Browning 1; see Spencer, Browning and Rust; see Spencer, Browning and Co; see Browning and Rust. | London. | Taylor 2(805); Brewington 1. | suggest correction |
| BROWNING 2 | USA, c.1825, MIM NIM SIM | Surveying Compasses, wood = Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich., P.C.; Octant = De Young Museum, San Francisco. | P.C. and octant signed "Baltimore"; other instrument signed "Boston"; probably Samuel Browning 1. | Boston, Mass.; Baltimore, Md. | Smart 1; USNM; DATM. | suggest correction |
| BROWNING 3 | USA, c.1803, MIM OIM | see Newell and Browning. | Merchants' Row, Boston, Mass.(1803). | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| BROWNING AND RUST | England, c.1835, NIM | Octant = OMM; Sextant = PMS. | London. | USNM; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BROWNING AND SON | USA, fl.1816-41, MIM SIM | Surveying Compasses = GUR, Old Sturbridge Village, Mass. | Samuel (1) and Samuel S. Browning, father and son. | 67 Broad Street, Boston, Mass. | Smart 1; USNM; DATM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BROWNING, GEORGE | England?, 1782, NIM | Octant, mahogany, 1782 = Soth. 12/19/66-16. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWNING, JOHN 1 | England, fl.1782-1838, MIM OIM PHIM | Microscope = D.(1972); | apprenticed to Richard Rust of the Grocers' Company on March 1, 1768; free of the Company, July 4, 1782; brother of Samuel Browning 1; according to the addresses John Browning appears not to have been involved in any firm; Taylor's addresses were different. | 49 Virginia Street (1782); Pennington Street, Ratcliffe Highway (1793); Prince's Square, Ratcliffe Highway (1797); 25 Prince's Square (1800); 17 Wellclose Place, New Road, St. George in the East (1803); all in London. | Taylor 2(805); Moskowitz 104; Coffeen B; USNM; J. Brown 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BROWNING, JOHN 2 | England, fl.1803-, MIM | apprenticed to his father, Samuel Browning 1, of the Grocers' Company on Sept.3, 1795; free of the Company, May 5, 1803. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWNING, JOHN 3 | England, fl.1860-72, OIM PHIM | Spectroscope, hand = D.(1991). | T.C.; "Optical and Physical Instrument Maker to Her Majesty's Goverment, The Royal Observatory, Kew Observatory, etc."; probably was the successor to Spencer, Browning and Co., c.1860. | 111 Minories E. (1860-72) and 63 Strand (1872); 6 Vine Street, E.C.(factory); all in London. | Calvert 2; Moskowitz 4; Chaldecott 3; RGO; Gemmary III. | suggest correction |
| BROWNING, RICHARD | England, c.1818, MIM | admitted to the Grocers' Company by Patrimony on Dec. 3, 1818; son of Samuel Browning 1; partner in the firm of Spencer, Browning and Rust 2 with his brother, William and with Ebenezer Rust 2 from 1819 until 1840 when the name of the firm changed to Spencer, Browning and Co. | 66 Wapping (1818-39); 111 Minories (1839); also at 6 Vine Street (1848); all in London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
| BROWNING, SAMUEL 1 | USA, 1778-1864, MIM NIM | see Browning 2; clockmaker; partner with Joseph Newell, as Newell and Browning, 1803; T.C. engraved by Thomas Wightman. | 4 Dock Square (1805); 35 Broad Street (1809); 77 Broad Street (1816-25); 282 Washington (1829-41); all are in Boston, Mass.; Baltimore, Md. | Smart 1; USNM; Warner 12. | suggest correction | |
| BROWNING, SAMUEL 2 | England, fl.1782-1819, MIM NIM | Octant = VNN. | brother of John Browning 1; apprenticed to Richard Rust of the Grocers' Company on Feb. 5, 1767; free of the Company, July 4, 1782; partner in Spencer, Browning and Rust 1 with Ebenezer Rust 1 and William Spencer 2. | 327 Wapping Street, London (1782-83); Eaton Socon, Beds. (1786-92); Wapping, London (1795-1819). | J. Brown 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BROWNING, SAMUEL 3 | England, c.1792, | apprenticed to Samuel Browning 2, his father, in the Grocers' Company on June 7, 1792. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BROWNING, SAMUEL S. | USA, c.1803-35, MIM OIM | son of Samuel Browning 1. | Boston, Mass. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| BROWNING, WILLIAM | England, fl.1819-40, MIM | brother of Richard Browning; Spencer, Browning and Rust 2 was run by Ebenezer Rust 2 and William and Richard Browning, 1819-40, a continuation of the original firm. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRUCE | England, | see Wilson and Gillie, Bruce and Son. | Cardiff. | suggest correction | ||
| BRUCE, J., AND SONS | England, NIM PHIM | Marine Compass = NOR; Marine Barometer = D.(1972). | Liverpool. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRUCE, JOHN | England, fl.1865-96, NIM PHIM | Sextant = Melun 4/24/83; Octant, ebony and brass = Soth. 12/8/69; Marine Barometer = DeLuca 10/21/95. | octant signed "J. Bruce Liverpool"; T.C. in sextant case; also made chronometers. | Wopping?, Liverpool. | Bryden 9; Crawforth 1. RSW; Nautical Brass Jan/Feb, 1996. | suggest correction |
| BRUCE, JOHN, AND SON | England, NIM | Sextant = Christie-SK 2/8/79; Position Indicator = Soth. 7/15/63-152. | Liverpool. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRUCE, WILLIAM | England, fl.1806-27, | brass and optical turner; worked with Charles Robert West on a portable telescope, 1806. | 16 King's Head Court, Shoe, Lane, London. | Taylor 2(1092). | suggest correction | |
| BRUCKNER, G. | 1842, MIM | Pair of Globes, 1842 = X. | Tooley. | suggest correction | ||
| BRUFF, CHARLES OLIVER | USA; Canada, 1735-1817, MIM | loyalist. | New York, N.Y.; Tarrytown, N.Y. (1777); New York, N.Y.; Shelburne, Nova Scotia (1783). | Bedini 8. | suggest correction | |
| BRUGGER AND HOFFMEYER | England, c.1822, PHIM | made barometers and clocks. | Norfolk Street, Lynn Regis. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRUGGER AND STRAUB | England, fl.1845-60, PHIM | barometer and thermometer makers? German clock and watchmakers, 1856. | 79 High Holborn, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRUGGER, LORENZ AND A. | England, fl.1843-44, PHIM | made barometers and thermometers; see Brugger and Straub. | 79 High Holborn, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRULAT ET CHOARET | France, 18th Century, MIM | Sundial = D.(1970). | Lyon. | Merzbach. | suggest correction | |
| BRUMELL, G.T. | England, post-1839, MIM | Slide Rule, Hawthorn-type = P.C. | Delehar 2 and 9. | suggest correction | ||
| BRUN, J. | England, 1772, OIM | Microscope, 1772 = KEN. | Clay and Court. | suggest correction | ||
| BRUNDELL, PHILIP GEORGE | England, c.1795, | apprenticed to John King 2 of the Grocers' Company on Feb. 5, 1795. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BRUNDL, J. | Sweden?, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial = NOR. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BRUNELL, J. | MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial = NOR. | scales for 59° and 63°20'. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRUNER | France, NIM | Meridian Circle = PMM. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BRUNER AND CO. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BRUNER, ERASMUS | Germany, c.1600, MIM | Instrument = DRE. | there is a tower clock case at OXF signed Asmus Birin Bruner, 1577 = Mallett Coll.-120. | Augsburg. | Evans 1; Maddison 7. | suggest correction |
| BRUNI | Italy, 1787, MIM | Horary Quadrant, 1787 = Koller 11/17/75. | Bologna. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRUNI, POMPILIO | Italy, d.1668, MIM NIM | also made compasses. | Urbino. | Morpurgo 1. | suggest correction | |
| BRUNI, THEOPHILI | Italy, 1640, MIM | Astronomical Clock, 1640 = Naval Museum, Venice. | Venice. | Italian Inventory. | suggest correction | |
| BRUNN, LUKAS | Germany, fl.1598-1620, MIM | Protractor = DRE; Rules = DRE(2). | invented a measuring instrument with screw micrometer, made by Christoph Trechsler. | Annaberg. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRUNNER, CASPAR | Germany, c.1555, MIM | Rule, folding, 1555 = HAK; Artillery Level, 1556 = DRE. | Nürnberg. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRUNNER, IGNATIUS | England, fl.1849-60, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X; Stick Barometer = Christie-SK 4/17/86. | wheel signed "I. Brunner Birmingham"; stick signed "Brunner" with full address. | 66 Edgbaston Street, Birmingham. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRUNNER, JOHANN | Germany; France, 1804-62, MIM OIM SIM | succeeded by his sons, Emil and Otto; perhaps worked with them, 1855 on. | rue de Vaugirard, 183, Paris. | Pipping 1; Poggendorff; USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BRUNTON | England, NIM | Sextant = MYS. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRUSH, THOMAS | England, fl.1643-56, MIM | made garden sundials. | Taylor 1(225). | suggest correction | ||
| BRUYN, WEDUWE W. | Holland, fl.1826-35, MIM NIM | the widow of W. Bruyn; instrument and compass maker. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| BRUYNEEL, CORNELIS | Holland, c.1684, NIM | compass maker. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| BRYAM, E.M. | USA, c.1846, | see Ephraim N. Byram. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| BRYAN, EDWARD | England, MIM | Level = Melun 2/24/83. | 24 Cross Street, Manchester. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRYAN, THOMAS | England, 1656, MIM | Garden Sundial, 1656 = MYS. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BRYANT, J. | England, c.1825, MIM | Garden Sundial, bronze = D.(1982). | (check Pearson Page Pictures)? | Coffeen A. | suggest correction | |
| BRYN | see Jong and Bryn. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BRYSON | Scotland, c.1830, NIM | Sextant, pocket = Soth. 2/28/80. | Edinburgh. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BRYSON, ALEXANDER | Scotland, 1816-66, MIM NIM PHIM | eldest son of Robert Bryson 1; made meteorological instruments including thermometers and barometers; member of the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts in Scotland; trained in Musselburgh and London. | Edinburgh (1844-66). | Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
| BRYSON, JAMES MACKAY | Scotland, 1824-94, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | Stick Barometer = X; Wheel Barometer = X; Surveying Compass = Soth. 2/8/83; Microscopes = Christie-SK 7/10/80, FRK = RSM (3); Spectroscope = FRK = RSM; Scale, boxwood = RSM; Rain Gauge = RSM; Thermometer, maximum, mercury = RSM; etc. | son of Robert Bryson 1; brother of Alexander and Robert (2) Bryson; worked under Repsold in Hamburg,1843, and later under Merz in Munich; set up as an optician in 1850; worked independently; member of the Edinburgh Merchant Company; instruments signed "Bryson Edinburgh." | 65 Princes Street (1850-52); 24 Princes Street (1853); 60 Princes Street (1855-66); 60A Princes Street (1867-93); all in Edinburgh. | Goodison 1; Bryden 3; Clarke et al; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BRYSON, ROBERT 1 | Scotland, 1778-1852, MIM PHIM | a Hammerman, 1815; noted clockmaker; interested in instruments involving time pieces; made self-registering barometers and thermometers; father of Robert Bryson 2 and Alexander Bryson; founding member of the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts in Scotland; influential member of the scientific community in Edinburgh; see Robert Bryson and Son(s). | The Mint, High Street (1810-15); 5 South Bridge opposite to Hunter's Square (1815-40); 66 Princes Street (1840-52). | Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
| BRYSON, ROBERT 2 | Scotland, 1819-86, MIM PHIM | son of Robert Bryson 1; worked with his father and brother Alexander as Robert Bryson and Son(s). | Edinburgh. | Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
| BRYSON, ROBERT, AND SON(S) | Scotland, 1844-86, PHIM | clockmakers; also made meteorological instruments; Robert Bryson 1 and his sons Robert Bryson 2 and Alexander Bryson. | 66 Princes Street, Edinburgh. | Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
| BRZEZI, STEPH A. | Czechoslovakia, 1573, MIM | Sandglass, four-part, 1573 = Museum Kradec Kralové, Bohemia. | Brezi? | Czech. Inventory. | suggest correction | |
| BUC, N. DU | France, c.1666, NIM | compass maker. | Dieppe. | Schück. | suggest correction | |
| BUCH, D. ZACCARIAS | Germany, fl.1593-1633, MIM | Armillary Spheres = Hamilton Coll. (1593), AMST (1633). | the AMST instrument is signed "D. Zaccarias Buch. Aquensis"; the Hamilton sphere is signed "Zacharias Bucha." | Aquensis. | Mörzer Bruyns 1; Hamilton 2; Michel 3. | suggest correction |
| BUCHAN, L. | Scotland, c.1835, MIM PHIM | Barometer, portable = RSM. | Taylor thoght that he was a Scot. | Manchester. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(2089); Morrison-Low 1. | suggest correction |
| BUCHANAN, A. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BUCHANAN, JOHN | England, fl.1710-11, MIM | made sundials. | Steeple Bumpstead, Essex. | Taylor 1(557). | suggest correction | |
| BUCHART | see Bucher. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BUCHART, JOHAN HEINRICH | Germany, 1686, MIM | Sundial, composite, 1686 = KAS; Mathematical Instrument Set, 1686 = KAS. | Hamburg. | Michel 3; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BUCHER, HANS 1 | Germany, fl.1561-79, MIM | Orrery Clock = DRE; Celestial Globes, 1575, 1577 = lost. | see Baldwein and Bucher. | Marburg. | Zinner 1; Baillie 1. | suggest correction |
| BUCHER, HANS 2 | Germany, 1570, MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory, 1570 = Soth. 1/27/48-148 = 16/17/75. | probably misreading for Hans Ducher. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BUCHER, HANS 3 | Germany, 1750, MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory, 1750 = Koller 11/17/75. | Marburg. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BUCK, J. | England, c.1850, MIM PHIM | Drawing Compass = Versailles 11/20/83; Balance, folding = DRE. | "maker". | New Gate Street (London?). | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BUCK, J.W. | England, c.1850, PHIM | Barometer = Soth. 5/31/89. | "Improved Marine." | 36 High Street, Wapping (London). | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BUCKHAM, A. | USA, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass = P.C. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BUCKLEY, AND. | England, fl.1716-18, MIM | Perpetual Calendars = Wray Coll. (1716), BM-1901/11/15-4, Bodleian Library, Oxford. | Price 3; Ward 4; Evans 1; Wray; Gunther 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BUCKLEY, JOSEPH | Ireland, fl.1832-59, MIM OIM PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 2/28/80; Protractor with Rule = D.(1995). | optician; the barometer is signed "J. Buckley Dublin." | 14 Lower Sackville Street, Dublin. | Bryden 9; Morrison-Low and Burnett; offeen 51; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BUCKLEY, WILLIAM | England, 1519-71, MIM | Ring Sundial, 1546 = Princess Elizabeth (1546). | may be W.B. 1. | Lillieshal, Shropshire; London. | Taylor 1(14); RSW. | suggest correction |
| BUCKNALL, WILLIAM | England, 1731, | received a patent in 1731 for an astronomical instrument. | Millburn 8. | suggest correction | ||
| BUDD | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Banbury. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BUEHLER, JAMES A. | England, fl.1740-1800, MIM | globe maker. | Tooley. | suggest correction | ||
| BUEL, ABEL | USA, 1742-1822, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass = Conn. Historical Society, Hartford, Conn. | sometimes spelled as "Buell." | New Haven, Conn. | Smart 1. | suggest correction |
| BUFFAT | France, 1682, | invented the sidérostat. | Toulouse. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| BUFFHAM | USA, c.1850, OIM | Telescope, tin and brass = D.(1988). | has three- and six-inch lenses. | Milburn, Lake County, Illinois. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BUFFHAM, WILLIAM | England, OIM | Microscope = Phillips 6/15/76. | Rochdale. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BUFFON | France, MIM | Cannon Sundial = Jardin des Plantes (Jardin Royal), Paris. | Paris. | Boursier. | suggest correction | |
| BUHLE, GEB. | Germany, 1853, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, 1853 = BOM 3/28/16-557. | Berlin. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BUHLER, J.A. | Germany, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, miniature = Soth. 2/9/61. | Nürnberg. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BUIRD, EDWARD | Scotland, fl.1674-80, | a sea captain; imported nautical instruments. | Leith. | Bryden 3; Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
| BULBRECK | France, c.1850, MIM | made Burnier's combined compass and clinometer. | Paris. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BULFORT | see Newbord and Bulfort. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BULKELEY, THOMAS | England, c.1715, MIM | apprenticed to Thomas Feilder of the Clockmakers' Company on June 11, 1707; free of the Company, Dec.17, 1715; took an apprentice. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BULL 1 | England, c.1830, NIM | Octant, ebony and ivory = Soth. 6/9/77. | 113 Upper East Smithfield, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BULL 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Bedford. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BULL, JOHN | England, c.1582, MIM | made rules, compasses and geometrical instruments in metal; may have held office at the Mint. | Exchange Gate, London. | Taylor 1(59); Evans 1; Dewhirst; Michel 3; Gunther 4; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
| BULL, WILLIAM | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Stratford, Essex. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BULLA, A. | England, c.1830, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | see Bulla, Grasi and Fontana. | Exeter. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BULLA, GRASI AND FONTANA | England, c.1830, PHIM | barometer makers; variant is Bulla, Grassi and Fontana; probably A. Bulla and B. Fontana. | 134 Fore Street, Exeter. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BULLANT, JEAN | France, fl.1561-72, MIM | Armillary Sphere = X. | tradition says that he made the sphere for Catherine de Medici, c.1572; wrote book on sundials, 1561. | NYM Bulletin, Summer, 1966; Weil 2(19); Nachet; Price 2. | suggest correction | |
| BULLET, PIERRE | France, 1639-1716, | invented the "pantomètre" about which he wrote. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Nachet; Price 2. | suggest correction | |
| BULLOCK | England, c.1780, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, K. and C. 3/19/75. | K. and C. has thermometer on it; X could be F. Bullock. | Melkesham. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BULLOCK, F. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Corsham. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BULLOCK, JAMES | England, fl.1776-94, MIM | Mathematical Machine = OXF; Calculating Machines = KEN, (see Sotheby 1994 note), Aubert Sale, 1806. | the calculating machine was invented by Viscount Mahon (later Lord Stanhope) in 1777; Sotheby's offered, by private treaty, a calculating machine in 1994; clockmaker; his son, Edward, was apprenticed to David Cateay in 1776. | Leather Lane; Furnival's Inn; both in London. | Taylor 2(807); A.J. Turner 10; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BULMAIN AND DENNIES | USA, c.1799, NIM | New York, N.Y. | Bedini 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BULMAN, HANS | see Jakob Pühlmann. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BULTE, DANIEL | England, c.1663, MIM | apprenticed to Ralph Greatorex of the Clockmakers' Company; free of the Company on April 6, 1663. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BUMA SIBOUT | 1747, MIM | Ring Sundial, silver, 1747, with case = Soth. 12/12/55. | probably not the maker's name. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BUMEL, MICHAEL | Germany, fl.1613-33, MIM SIM | Surveying Instrument, 1613 = STU; Plane Table with Alidade and Sundial, 1625 = FLO-150; Pedometer, 1626 = NUR-WI1320; Graphometer, 1633 = STU-12870; Horary Quadrant = SLM. | see M.B. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Bonelli 1; Michel 3; Price 2. | suggest correction |
| BUNDERS, JAN | Holland, 1797, MIM | grandson and pupil of Jan van Deijl; see Jan van Deijl en Zoon. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BUNDERS, JAN VAN DEIJL | Holland, 19th Century, OIM PHIM | Barometer = X. | probably great grandson of Jan van Deijl 2. made telescopes; see Jan Van Deijl Bunders en Zoon. | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1; Daumas 1. | suggest correction |
| BUNDERS, JAN VAN DEIJL, EN ZOON | Holland, c.1850, PHIM | Barometer = X. | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| BUNDOCK, C. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer, with clock = Soth. 5/14/87. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BUNTEN | France, fl.pre-1828-43, NIM PHIM | Barometers, Siphon-type = OXF (1840), CNAM (1841); Mountain Barometer = Nisbit 4/4/1860; Marine Compass, small = PMM. | made standard thermometers. | Quai Pelletier 30, Paris. | Dewhirst; USNM; Chaldecott 3; RGO; Middleton 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BUNTING, THOMAS | England, c.1724, | apprenticed to John Crooke 1 or 2 in the Joiners' Company on May 12, 1724. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BUONSIGNORI, DOM STEPHANO | see Dom Stephano Bonsignori. | Bonelli 1 and 2; Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BURACKER | MIM | Floating Sundial = UTC. | probably Burucker. | suggest correction | ||
| BURATTINI, TITO LIVIO | Italy; Poland, fl.1659=80, MIM OIM | Lens = FLO (1690 inventory); Calculating Machine = FLO-3179 (?). | made microscopes and telescopes; made telescopes for Hevilius; he gave a calculating machine to one of the Medici and may have been the maker. | Warsaw (post-1670). | Bonelli 1; Daumas 1. | suggest correction |
| BURBIDGE | England, c.1820, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, miniature, case = Soth. 5/21/73. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BURBRIDGES | see Burgoyne, Burbridges, and Squire. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BURCKARDT, JOANN: AD: | Germany, 1692, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, 1692 = Habsburg, Feldman S.A. Auction, Geneva 1987. | solid center plate with alidade. | Munich. | Delehar 5. | suggest correction |
| BURDEN, PETER | England, c.1682, | apprenticed to John Worgan of the Grocers' Company on Feb. 7, 1682. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BURDETT, HENRY | England, c.1734, MIM | apprenticed to Simon Cade of the Clockmakers' Company on Sept. 2, 1723; free of the Company, Oct. 7, 1734; took an apprentice, Willand Challand (Shalland), 1737/38. | Crooked Lane, London. | J. Brown 1; Clifton 1. | suggest correction | |
| BURDETT, WILLIAM | Holland, MIM | Inclinable Sundial, round, case = DRE. | Amsterdam. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BURDON, E., ET RICHARDS | misreading for E. Bourdon et Richards. | Brewington 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BURDY, WILLIAM | England, fl.1806-23, MIM | Camden Town, Middlesex; Fulham, London. | Taylor 2(1094). | suggest correction | ||
| BUREAU, THOMAS | England, fl.1756-60, OIM | Microscope = OXF; Microscope, pocket, 1756 = Crisp Coll. | ownership of the OXF microscope is attributed to George III, of England. | Taylor 2(452); Nachet; Gunther 2. | suggest correction | |
| BUREL, COL. | c.1829, | invented a plummet level, 1829. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| BURFORD, EDMUND GOODWIN | England, c.1778, | apprenticed to John Gilbert 2 of the Grocers' Company on Jan. 9, 1778. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BURGE | misreading for Berge. | Christie 12/18/74. | suggest correction | |||
| BURGE, CALEB | England, c.1682, MIM | apprenticed to Simon Barrett of the Clockmakers' Company on April 13, 1682. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BURGE, JUSTE | see Jost Burgi. | Hamilton 2. | suggest correction | |||
| BURGE, M. | England, 1851, NIM | Sextant, 1851 = NMM. | possibly M. Berge. | Taylor 2(1083); NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
| BURGER, GEORG MATHAUS | Germany, 1750-1825, MIM | Heliochronometers = O-F 5, Drecker Coll., Schmitt-Friderich Coll., DEU-1679, Traunstein Heimatmuseum-1344. | "Mechaniker"; all signed "Mathäus Burger." | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Monreal; Lunardi. | suggest correction |
| BURGER, M. GEORG ARNOLD | Germany, 1649-1712?, MIM | Evans 1; Doppelmayer. | suggest correction | |||
| BURGERS UND CO. | Germany, MIM | Sector = DRE. | Cologne. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BURGES, BARTHOLOMEW | USA, 1740-1807, MIM | made an orrery; lecturer. | Boston, Mass. | Hindle 1; Bedini 1 and 8. | suggest correction | |
| BURGESS, GEORGE JAMES | England, c.1789, | apprenticed to William Morris 1 of the Grocers' Company on April 2, 1789. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BURGESS, ROGER | England, c.1737, MIM | apprenticed to William Dean in the Broderers' Company on March 5, 1728; free in the Company, Oct. 5, 1737. | Vere Street, Clare Market, London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| BURGH, IAN BREEM | Holland, c.1730, NIM | Compass Rose = AMST. | Edam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1. | suggest correction | |
| BURGH, JAN VAN DER | Holland, 1690, NIM | Parallel Rules, 1690 = AMST. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2. | suggest correction | ||
| BURGH, JUST | see Jost Bürgi. | suggest correction | ||||
| BURGI, JOST | Switzerland; Germany, 1552-1632, MIM SIM | a notable maker of fine instruments, his work covered a wide range including an astrolabe (KAS), astronomical sextant (PRA), globe clocks (BASH), (GOT), (CNAM), proportional dividers (KAS), etc. | Jost Bürgi; thought to have invented the proportional dividers; worked for Wilhelm IV at Kassel; see"I.B." (12). | Lichtensteig; Kassel (1584-1623). | Zinner 1; Michel 3; Evans 1; Baillie 1; Josten; Horsky; Horsky and Skopova; Maddison 5; Daumas 1; Aked; Von Mackensen (1983); DSB; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BURGOYNE, BURBIDGES, AND SQUIRE | England, MIM | 16 Coleman Street, London. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| BURI | see Burry. | Britten. | suggest correction | |||
| BURKETT, EDWARD | England, c.1700, MIM | apprenticed to William Sellars of the Clockmakers' Company on April 16, 1700. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BURLEIGH, M. | England, MIM | Calculating Scale = ADL-N41. | also marked "M.B." | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BURLESTER, E. | South Africa, OIM | Microscope = Christie-SK 2/9/84. | see Burmester, probably the same man. | Cape Town. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BURLINI, BIAGIO | see Biasio Burlini. | Brieux 2. | suggest correction | |||
| BURLINI, BIASIO | Italy; England, 1720-60, OIM | Telescope = KEN; Microscopes = LEY, NAC, Natural History Museum, Antwerp, Crisp Coll. | "Prof. in Venig"; author; Crisp signed "Elaboratum a Blasis Burlini Venitiis Optico", according to Clay and Court. | Venice; at Archimedes, London. | Brieux 2; Daumas 1; Belgian Inventory; Nachet; Crisp Coll.; Clay and Court; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BURMEISTER, JOCHAM | Germany, 1777, NIM | Hanging Compass = NMM-C152. | Lubeck. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
| BURMESTER | South Africa, OIM | Telescope, single draw = Phillips 2/14/79. | see E. Burlester, probably the same man. | Cape Town. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BURNABY, THOMAS | England, c.1697, MIM | apprenticed to Thomas Tuttell of the Clockmakers' Company on June 7, 1697. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BURNAP, DANIEL | USA, 1759-1838, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass, 1791 = Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. | clockmaker; also made wooden and brass surveying compasses. | East Windsor; Coventry; both in Conn. | Bedini 1, 8 and 17; Price 2; Smart 1. | suggest correction |
| BURNCKER | see W. Burucker. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |||
| BURNELL, RICHARD | England, c.1801, | apprenticed to Charles Fairbone 1 of the Grocers' Company on Feb.6, 1794; turned over to Richard Lomas of the Wheelwrights' Company on Feb.12, 1794; free of the Grocers' Company on May 7, 1801. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BURNETT 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Durham. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BURNETT 2 | Ireland, c.1860, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-S 7/23/87. | Dublin. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BURNHAM | USA, c.1831-42, MIM | a partner in the firm of Robinson, Burnham and Co., 1831-42; probably from Essex, Mass. | Danvers, Mass. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| BURNIER, CAPT. | France, c.1850, MIM | invented a type of compass and clinometer, 1850. | Paris. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BURNS | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Epsom. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BURNTHWAITE, GEORGE | England, MIM | Protractor, full = P.C. | Lamonby. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BURON | France, fl.1830-51, NIM | Octant, case = D.(1976). | 8, rue des Trois Pavillons, Paris. | Brieux 3; G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
| BURROUGHS, ROBERT S. | USA, c.1840, NIM | made or sold nautical compasses. | Warner 12. | suggest correction | ||
| BURROW | England, 19th Century, PHIM | Barometer = Phillips 9/10/86. | Malvern. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BURROW AND THOMS | England, c.1847, PHIM | 289 Strand, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
| BURROW, W. AND J. | England, c.1810, MIM | Slide Rule = D.(1983). | 62 and 63 Great Tower Street, London. | Moskowitz 125. | suggest correction | |
| BURRY, JACOB | France, 1667-1722, MIM | Cruciform Sundial = Feill Coll. | Paris. | Baillie 1; Britten. | suggest correction | |
| BURSILL AND CO. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BURT AND BAILEY | USA, fl.1835-56, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass = Sacramento County Historical Society, Cal. | William Burt and John Aylesworth Bailey. | Jefferson Avenue between Bates and Randolph (1853-54); 213 Jefferson Avenue (1855-56); both in Detroit, Mich. | Smart 1; Elgin. | suggest correction |
| BURT AND WATSON 1 | USA, fl. 1857-58, MIM SIM | Burt's Solar Compasses = Henry Ford Museum; Burt's Equatorial Sextant = Michigan Museum of Surveying, Lansing. | William Burt and Thomas Watson. | Detroit, Mich. | Elgin; Leiserowitz. | suggest correction |
| BURT AND WATSON 2 | USA, 1860, MIM SIM | Burt Solar Compass = Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit, Mich. | William Austin and John (2) Burt and Thomas Watson. | Detroit, Mich. | Elgin; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BURT, J. AND W. | USA, fl.1856-57, MIM | John Burt 2 and his brother, William Burt; W.H. Fawcett, a MIM, worked for them. | 214 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| BURT, JOHN 1 | England, c.1824, | apprenticed to William Elliott 1 in the Joiners' Company on March 31, 1824. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BURT, JOHN 2 | USA, 1814-86, MIM | surveyor with his father, William Austin Burt, 1840-50; partner with his brother, William Burt in J. and W. Burt, 1856-57; also a partner in Burt and Watson, 1857-58; invented a type of lock for canals. | Detroit, Mich. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| BURT, PETER | England, fl.1813-27, | devised a new binnacle, log and steering compass. | 4 Providence Place, Commercial Road, Limehouse, London. | Taylor 2(1286); Bedini 8. | suggest correction | |
| BURT, WILLIAM | USA, 1825=98, MIM SIM | son of William Austin Burt; partner with John A. Bailey, 1853-56; partner with his brother, John Burt 2 as J. and W. Burt, 1856-57; partner with John Burt 2 and Thomas Watson in Burt and Watson, 1857-58. | Detroit, Mich. (1814-66); Marquette, Mich. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| BURT, WILLIAM AUSTIN | USA, 1792-1858, MIM | Equatorial Sextants = D.(1993, U.S Naval Obs., USNA. | invented the solar compass in 1836, a typewriter in 1829, and the equatorial sextant c.1855; see William Burt and Watson. | Petersham, Mass.; Wales Township, Erie County, N.Y. (pre-1824); Mount Vernon, Mich. (1824); Detroit, Mich. | Smart 1; Bedini 8; Coffeen 43; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BURTON | England, c.1750, MIM NIM | Sextant = Leigh and Soth. 4/10/1794. | Ramsden started as an engraver to a Burton in 1751, perhaps Mark Burton, which see. | London. | Goodison 1; Daumas 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BURTON, EDWARD | England, MIM OIM | 47 Church Street, Minories, London. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| BURTON, GEORGE 1 | England, fl.1772-1815, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | Stick Barometers = Gloucester Museum, Christie-SK 9/11/86, X. | "X" is signed "G. Burton"; the others signed "Burton London"; he was probably the Burton whose instruments were carried on Cook's second voyage by William Wales and another set was given to Mr. W. Gooch when he went to join Vancouver in the Pacific in 1791; it is unlikely that John Burton was the maker involved. | 136 High Street Borough, Southwark, London. | Taylor 2(694); Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BURTON, GEORGE 2 | England, c.1830, MIM NIM PHIM | 3 Devonshire Buildings, Great Dover Street, London. | Taylor 2(1791). | suggest correction | ||
| BURTON, JAMES | England, fl.1828-46, OIM PHIM | 10 Great Bell Alley (1828-29); 10 Western Street, Pentonville; 25 Pleasant Row, Pentonville; all in London. | Taylor 2(1792); O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
| BURTON, JOHN | England, fl.1758-75, OIM | might have been the Burton who furnished instruments for Cook's second voyage but more likely it was George Burton 1; opposed Peter Dollond's patent in 1764. | Johnson Court, Fleet Street, London. | Taylor 2(453); Court and von Rohr 3(XXVI). | suggest correction | |
| BURTON, JON. | Ireland, c.1780, MIM | Garden Sundial, "made for Henry Percy" = D.(1973). | Dublin. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BURTON, JOSEPH | England, c.1822, OIM | 15 Blackfriars Bridge, near the Magdalen, London. | Taylor 2(1499); Dewhirst. | suggest correction | ||
| BURTON, MARK | England, fl.1730-69, d,1786, MIM OIM PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker; divided scales; T.C.; possibly successor to G. Lyford; took apprentices, including Jesse Ramsden; Clay and Court thought him 20 years later. | Euclid's Head, near New Church, Strand; Denmark Court, Strand (1755); Strand (1763-69); all in London. | Taylor 2(454); Goodison 1; Clay and Court; Clifton 1. | suggest correction | |
| BURTON, W. | England, c.1750, MIM | Sector = Soth. 2/20/85 = D.(1991). | Coffeen 35; Clifton 1; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BURUCKER, W. | Germany, 1728-80, MIM | Pillar Sundials, wood = CNAM-13.591, Luipold Museum, Würzburg, LID-M43, Drecker Coll., STS, NUR-WI1300, BASH-1917/856, D.(1984); Sundials = AMST, Koller 11/17/75; Magnetic Compass = P.C.; Calendar, pendant = OXF; Equatorial Sundial = OXF; Horizontal Sundials = Drecker Coll.(3); Artillery Level = P. and S. 3/20/1896 = OXF. | Koller sundial is polychrome paper dial in brass sphere; the OXF instrument is also marked "W.B." (1), which see. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Esdaille; Lunardi; Coffeen F; Cons. Nat'l 2; Mörzer Bruyns 1; Daumas 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BURY | see Burry. | Britten. | suggest correction | |||
| BUSBY, SAMUEL | England, c.1811, | invented a compass to show the time of longitude. | Taylor 2(1287). | suggest correction | ||
| BUSCH AND OEHLSCHLAGER | Germany, fl.1654-64, MIM | Copernican Planetaria = MLL, Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark, | Andreas Busch and Adam Oehlschläger. | Limburg; Gottorp. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; H.C. King 2. | suggest correction |
| BUSCH, ANDREAS | Germany, fl.1654-64, MIM | worked for Duke Ferdinand IV; see Busch and Oehlschläger. | Limburg; Gottorp. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; King 2. | suggest correction | |
| BUSCH, C.C., AND CO. | USA?, PHIM | Kalaidoscope = Maria Mitchell House, Nantucket, Mass. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BUSCH, E. | Germany, c.1850, OIM | in the 1851 Great Exhibition, London. | Rathenow, Prussia. | USNM; G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
| BUSCH, ELIAS | Germany, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundial = Soth. 7/23/62-10. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BUSCHMAN, JNO. | Germany, c.1692, MIM | Sundial with Compass on table clock = SPI-Anderson 3/25/27. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BUSCHMANN, CASPAR 1 | Germany, c.1536-1613, MIM | Calendar Clock = ADL-M378. | clockmaker; signed "Cas: Bu." | Augsburg. | Engelmann 1; Bobinger 2 and 3; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BUSCHMANN, CASPAR 2 | Germany, c.1563-1629, MIM | Astronomical Compendium with Regiomontanus-type Sundial and a Nocturnal, 1611 = BEK; Compass and Calendar, 1628 = CLU; Astronomical Compendium = DEU; Sundial, 1628 = Middelburg Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen. | signature on the 1611 sundial is "Caspar Buschman automatarius in Augusta Anno 1611." | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2 & 3; Zinner 1. | suggest correction |
| BUSCHMANN, DAVID | Germany, 1626-1701, MIM | Vertical Sundial on a table clock = MUN; Equatorial Sundials on clocks = VIE, Feill Coll., P.C.(1918-Frankfort). | VIE has a sundial and an armillary sphere on a clock. | Augsburg. | Zinner 1; Bobinger 2 and 3; Michel 3. | suggest correction |
| BUSCHMANN, HANNS | see Johann Buschmann 1. | Bobinger 2 and 3. | suggest correction | |||
| BUSCHMANN, JOHANN 1 | Germany, c.1600-62, MIM | Diptych Sundial, round = MUN-33/234; Sundial in pocket watch = SPI-2731; Planispheric Sundial = Prin Coll. = NMM; Proportional Compasses, = NUR (1635), THO. | member of the Clockmakers' Guild; SPI signed "Hanns Buschmann." | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2 and 3; Zinner 1; NMM 2; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BUSCHMANN, JOHANN 2 | Germany, c.1632-76, MIM | Magnetic Azimuth Sundial = MADEX-105 = NMM-D.60; Ring Sundial = Stuker 2/7/58-3442 = Weil = P.C.; Pin-gnomon Horizontal Sundials = MUN-33/234, Prin. | clockmaker. | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2 and 3; Zinner 1; NMM 2. | suggest correction |
| BUSH, JOSEPH | England, c.1700, MIM | free of the Stationers' Company after 1664 and before 1747. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BUSH, MARGARET | England, c.1763, MIM | member of the Stationers' Company for at least 15 years after William Bush's death; took apprentices. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BUSH, R., AND CO. | England, c.1816, PHIM | made a brass and copper still, in use for many years; seized by the I.R.S. in 1951. | Bristol. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BUSH, WILLIAM | England, pre-1763, MIM | free of the Stationers' Company; succeeded by his widow, Margaret Bush. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| BUSHELL, EDWARD | England, c.1687, MIM | apprenticed to William Bennett of the Clockmakers' Company on Oct.3, 1687. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BUSHELL, SAMUEL | England, c.1690, MIM | apprenticed to Withers Cheney of the Clockmakers' Company on July 12, 1690. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BUSNELL, WALTER | India, 19th Century, MIM | Equatorial Sundial = Phillips 10/26/83. | Calcutta. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BUSS | England, MIM | Slide Rule, Proof, ivory = D.(1981). | 48 Hatton Garden, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BUSS, THOMAS O'DEMPSEY | England, 1847- 83, PHIM | Saccharometer = D.(1972); Sikes' Hydrometer = Christie 5/15/73; Hydrometer Sets = Longleat House, Wilts.(2); etc. | successor to R.B. Bate. | 33 Hatton Garden; 3 Upper East Smithfield, Tower Hill; both in London. | G.L'E. Turner 24; Moskowitz 104; RSW; Coffeen A; USNM. | suggest correction |
| BUSS, THOMAS ODEMCY | see Thomas O'Dempsey. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |||
| BUSSY, WILLIAM | England, c.1714, MIM | apprenticed to William Bennett of the Clockmakers' Company on Oct.26, 1714. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| BUSUCKER | see W. Burucker. | Zinner 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BUTCHER, CHAR. | England, MIM | Garden Sundial = Chicheley Hall, Newport Pagnell. | for 52°10' latitude. | Bedford. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BUTCHER, JOHN | England, c.1786, | apprenticed to John Parminter 1 of the Grocers' Company on Dec.3, 1778; free of the Company on Feb.2, 1786. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| BUTERFIEL | Butterfield-type Sundial = Christie-N.Y. 4/3/85 = D. | naive copy of a Butterfield-type sundial. | Moskowitz ; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| BUTERFIELD | instruments signed this way are sometimes contemporary copies of the very popular sundials made by Michael Butterfield. | Moskowitz 102; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| BUTLER | England, 1630, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1630 = Christie-SK 11/15/79. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BUTLER AND POWELL | England, c.1818, MIM | rule makers. | Lionel Street, Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| BUTLER, JAMES | England, c.1765, MIM | apprenticed to Francis Morgan in the Joiners' Company on November 19, 1765; listed as a MIM in the directories. | London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| BUTT, MR. | England, c.1815, OIM | made a short Cassegrain telescope. | The Paragon, Kent Road, London. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| BUTTERFIELD, HORACE S. | USA, c.1815, MIM | made an astronomical calculator with Olof Ohlson. | Portland, Oregon. | A.H. Brown. | suggest correction | |
| BUTTERFIELD, MICHAEL | England; France, 1635-1724, MIM OIM SIM | Butterfield made a wide range of well made instruments. | an Englishman who spent his working life in Paris, from before 1665 to his death in 1724; master and juror (1702-04) in the "Corporation des fondeurs"; "Ingénieur du Roi"; best known as the developer of the Butterfield-type sundial; many copies and forgeries of his work exist. | England (1635-pre-1665); Aux Armes d'Angleterre, Faubourg Saint-Germain, rue Neuve-des-Fossés (1678); Quai des Morfundus, Ile de la Cité (1691); both in Paris. | Daumas 1; Taylor 1(369) and 2(22); Coffeen A; Mörzer Bruyns 1; USNM; Michel 1; Dewhirst; Price 3; Ward 4; Belgian Inventory; Hamilton 2; Wynter 1; Stewart; Moskowitz 110; Lister; Engelmann 1; J.A. Bennett 2; Bryden 16; Bonelli; A.J. Turner 10; Rinaldi 23; Syndram; Augarde; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BUTTERWORTH, JOHN | England, c.1759, MIM | clockmaker; engraver; may have made sundials. | Bull and Bear Yard, Leeds. | Loomes. | suggest correction | |
| BUTTI 1 | Holland, PHIM | Barometer = LEY. | Amsterdam. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| BUTTI 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Taunton. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| BUTTI GEBROEDERS EN STOPANNI | Holland, fl.1794-1817, PHIM | Barometer = WMH. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| BUTTI, BARNASCHINA AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Francis Barnaschina? | Newcastle-on-Tyne. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
| BUTTI, DONATI | Italy; Holland, c.1794, PHIM | made barometers and thermometers; see the Gebroeders Butti en Stopanni as well as D. Butti and Sons; partner with Solaro in 1817. | Milan; Amsterdam (1794-1817). | Mörzer Bruyns 2; Crommelin; Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| BUTTI, DTO, EN ZONEN | Holland, c.1800, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie April, 1978. | made thermometers. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction |
| BUTTI, L. | Scotland, fl.1825-67, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | carver and gilder. | 232 Cargate (1825-26); 1 and 2 Ronaldson's Buildings (1836); 2 Springfield Buildings (1848-52); all in Leith; 14 Hanover Street, Edinburgh (1853-67). | Goodison 1; Morrison-Low. | suggest correction |
| BUTTI, LOUIS JOSEPH | Italy; Scotland, fl.1823-24, OIM PHIM | worked with John Zenone as Zenone and Butti; dealt in telescopes and, probably, barometers. | 5 Calton Street, Edinburgh. | Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
| BUTTIERI, CARLO ANTONIO | Italy, OIM | Telescope, cardboard = D.(1986). | signed on the objective lens. | Rome. | Wynter 1. | suggest correction |
| BUZZOFO, HIERONIMO DE ANTONIO | Italy, 1562, MIM NIM SIM | Cross-staff, wood and brass, 1562 = BM-1901/7/20-1. | Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction | ||
| BYGRAVE, RICHARD | England, c.1742, OIM | apprenticed to George Bass, an OIM in the Spectaclemakers' Company, March 27, 1733; free in the Company on Feb. 28, 1742 | Court and von Rohr 3(136). | suggest correction | ||
| BYNTER, JORG | Germany, 1485, MIM | "compastmacher" in 1485. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
| BYRAM, EPHRAIM N. | USA, fl.1836-46, MIM NIM | made a "Universal Planetarium", c.1836; received an award for an improvement in the suspension of the marine compass, c.1846. | Sag Harbor, Long Island, N.Y. | USNM; Warner 12. | suggest correction | |
| BYRD, JOHN | England, c.1760, MIM | Garden Sundial = Palacio Réal, Madrid. | misreading for John Bird, which see. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| BYWATER AND CO. | England, c.1840, NIM | Quadrant = D.(1976). | Liverpool. | Rinaldi. | suggest correction | |
| BYWATER, DAWSON AND CO. | England, c.1835, MIM NIM | Octant = D.(1975); Compass, portable = Soth. 5/25/68; Marine Compass = Soth. 3/25 86. | see John Bywater, Dawson and Co. | No. 18 Pool Lane , Liverpool. | Bryden 9; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BYWATER, JOHN | England, fl.1816-35, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | invented a corrected compass for deviation; see John Bywater, Dawson and Co.; see Bywater, Dawson and Co; optician. | 49 Gloucester Street (1816); 44 Seymour Street (1832-35); 18 Pool Lane; all in Liverpool. | Taylor 2(1288); Goodison 1; Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | |
| BYWATER, JOHN, AND CO. | England, MIM PHIM | Marine Barometer = P.C.(1976). | opticians; agent for Dollond telescopes. | 18 Pool Lane, Liverpool. | Crawforth 6; RSW. | suggest correction |
| BYWATER, JOHN, DAWSON AND CO. | England, fl.1819-32, MIM NIM OIM | agents for Adie, Dicas and Willis; T.C.; see John Bywater; see Bywater, Dawson and Co. | 20 Pool Lane, Liverpool. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(1288); Moskowitz 101. | suggest correction |
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