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| Signature | Maker Info | Instruments | Comments | Location | References |
| L'ADMIRAL, JACOB | see Admiral, Jacob L'. | RSW. | |||
| L'ALLEMAN, DIDIER | France, fl.1677-78, MIM | made a celestial globe in 1677-78; mentioned in the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions XII, p. 895; watchmaker. | Paris. | Evans 1. | |
| L'AMAND, R. | France, c.1720, MIM | Diptych Sundial, wood = Evans Coll. | Dieppe. | Evans 1. | |
| L'ASNE, MICHEL | see Michael Asinus. | Nachet; RSW. | |||
| L'ETANG | see Etang. | ||||
| L'HOSTE, JEAN | France, fl.1616-31, MIM | Terrestrial Globes, 1616 = Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France et de la Musée Lorrain, Nancy; Celestial Globes = Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France (1617) et de la Musée Lorrain (1618). | mathematician and author; sometimes signed "Johannes L'Hoste." | Nancy. | Bonacker; RSW. |
| L'ISLE, DE | see Isle, de l'. | ||||
| L. 1 | Germany, 1741, OIM | Solar Microscopes, 1741 = DRE (2). | Hans Löser, Reichsgraf. | Zinner 1; Drechsler 2. | |
| L. 2 | Germany, | see L.A.E. | Maurice 1; RSW. | ||
| L.A.E. | Germany, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial, stone = DEU. | might also be marked "L." (2). | Maurice 1; RSW. | |
| L.A.K. | Germany, 1733, MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory, 1733 = NMM-D.141 | Leonhard Andreas Karner; for latitude 48°; see "L.K." 1. | Augsburg. | NMM 2; Gouk. |
| L.B. | England, NIM | Nocturnals, wood = CMY, etc. | when found on English nocturnals, L.B. stands for "Little Bear." | RSW. | |
| L.D.B. | USA?, 1785, NIM | Backstaff, 1785 = Maine Historical Society, Portland Me. | Bedini thought it was 1776. | Bedini 14; RSW. | |
| L.G. | Germany, 18th.Century, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundial = Christie 6/23/64. | L. Grassl or L. Gräf. | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2. |
| L.G.M. | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundial = P. & S. 5/19/1896. | probably a misreading of "L.T.M." | RSW. | |
| L.H. | France, MIM | String-gnomon Sundial in medallion = Libert et Castor 4/28/82. | might be the owner's initials. | RSW. | |
| L.I.S. | 1646, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1646 = NOR. | RSW. | ||
| L.J.M. | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundials = P. & S. 3/20/1896 and 5/19/1896. | probably a misreading of "L.T.M." | RSW | |
| L.K. 1 | Germany, fl.1728-30, MIM | Diptych Sundials, ivory, = Galerie am Neumarkt 10/19/72 = Kugel (1730), Drout 4/7/87 (1728). | the mastermark is a glove with cuff; see L.A.K.; see Leonard Andreas Karner. | Nürnberg. | Gouk; RSW. |
| L.K. 2 | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Equatorial Sundial = PRA. | Augsburg. | Zinner 1. | |
| L.K.G. | Germany, 1631, MIM | Diptych Sundial, 1631 = BM. | Zinner 1. | ||
| L.L. | France, c.1700, | owner's initials with crest on an astronomical compendium, Versailles 11/19/78. | RSW. | ||
| L.M. 1 | Germany, MIM | either Lienhart Miller, Leonhart Miller, or Leinhart Milner. | Nürnberg. | RSW. | |
| L.M. 2 | Germany, 1625, MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory, 1625 = ADL-T12. | Lienhart Miller. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Tomlinson 1; ADL; RSW. |
| L.M. 3 | Germany, 1626, | marked on an ivory diptych sundial signed "Lienhart Milner, 1626." | RSW. | ||
| L.M. 4 | Germany, fl.1636-45, MIM | Diptych Sundials, ivory, 1636 and 1645 = Huelsmann Coll. | also marked on an ivory diptych sundial signed "Leonhart Miller" in the Findlay Sale. | Nürnberg. | Syndram; RSW. |
| L.M. 5 | France, c.1750, MIM | marked on a garden sundial signed "Lheureux", in Koller, May 1972. | RSW. | ||
| L.M. ST. | fl.1644-48, MIM | Pin-gnomon Sundial, 1648 = SKO; Artillery Scale, 1644 = SKO. | Price 2. | ||
| L.M.N. | Germany, c.1600, MIM | Torquetum = BAM. | calendar runs from 1600 to 1639. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1. |
| L.R.F. | Germany, 1631, MIM | Triptych Sundial, 1631 = BM. | signed "L.R.f. 1631." | Price 3; Ward 4; Zinner 1; RSW. | |
| L.S. 1 | Germany?, 1518, MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory, 1518 = FIN. | Zinner 1. | ||
| L.S. 2 | Germany, c.1600, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, stone = REG. | Zinner 1. | ||
| L.S. 3 | England, 17th Century, MIM | Ring Sundial, expanded = Christie 6/7/72. | RSW. | ||
| L.S. 4 | 1715, MIM | Vertical Sundial, 1715 = ZUS. | RSW. | ||
| L.S. 5 | England, c.1800, MIM | Bow Dividers = D.(1972). | Moskowitz 103. | ||
| L.T. | initials on a telecopic graphometer by Lenoir; probably the owner. | Wynter 1. | |||
| L.T.M. | Germany, c.1710-70, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundials found in many museums and collections. | Ludovicus Theodatus Müller. | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2; Bryden 16; RSW. |
| L.T.V. | surely a misreading of L.T.M | Christie 4/3/74. | |||
| L.X.A. | 1593, MIM | Equatorial Sundial, 1593 = LIE. | Price 2; RSW. | ||
| L.Z. 1 | Germany, 1741, MIM | Hodometer, 1741 = DRE. | Löser und Zimmer or Lehmann und Zimmer? | Zinner 1; Drechsler 2. | |
| L.Z. 2 | MIM | Compass Sundial = NOR. | initials on cover, owner? | RSW. | |
| L.Z.K. | misreading of I.3 K.; see Jacob Karner. | Koller 11/7/63. | |||
| LA HIRE, GABRIEL-PHILIPPE DE | France, 1677-1719, OIM | Telescope = POB. | son of Philippe de la Hire? experimented with barometers. | Paris. | Nachet; Middleton 1. |
| LA HIRE, PHILIPPE DE | France, 1640-1718, | de la Hire; wrote on astrolabes and gnomonics; invented a new type of astrolabe projection. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Nachet; Middleton 1. | |
| LA MOTTA | Italy, 1767, NIM | Compass in gimbals, 1767 = ROM. | Price thought the date was 1707. | Rome. | Bonelli 4; Price 2; RSW. |
| LA MOTTE | France, c.1690, MIM | Sector = P.C.; Square = P.C. | Versailles. | Nachet; RSW. | |
| LA REINE | France, OIM | Field Glass, pocket = USNM. | Paris. | USNM. | |
| LABBE, J.N. | 1826, MIM | Garden Sundial, slate, 1826 = LIE. | J.N. Labbé. | Michel 9. | |
| LACAM, B. | owner's name on mathematical etui signed "H. Cole maker" for Humphrey Cole, which see | RSW. | |||
| LACKEN, JOHN | England, c.1825, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Christie-SK 6/30/89. | Maidstone. | RSW. | |
| LACOMBE | France, MIM | Horizontal Sundial = Drouot 4/26/67-38. | Toulouse. | RSW. | |
| LACOUR, CLAUDIUS | France, | Toricelli Barometer, 1769 = D.(1972). | modern work; "opticien." | rue du Bac, Paris. | RSW. |
| LACROIX | France, post-1753, | "maître serrurier"; received permission to make a perpetual motion machine from the inventor, Arles de Montigny, after Solvaique; see Berin de la Croix. | Paris. | Augarde. | |
| LACY, W. | England, 1779, MIM | Orrery, 1779 = NMM-P.25. | "Invenit et Delineavit." | NMM 2. | |
| LACY, WILLIAM | England, c.1803, PHIM | apprenticed to Francis Vandermeulen on July 21, 1803, for seven years. | West Street, West Smithfield, London. | Goodison 1. | |
| LADD AND OERTLING | England, fl.1860-74, PHIM | Edward Wilds Ladd and Ludwig Oertling; made balances; the RGO records have a letter announcing the partnership, dated Dec. 1860. | 192 Bishopsgate Street Without, London. | USNM; Chaldecott 3; RGO. | |
| LADD AND STREATFIELD | England, fl. 1847-59, PHIM | the partnership of Edward Wilds Ladd and John Streatfield fl. c.1847-Oct. 1859; listed themselves as "successors to R.B. Bate, hydrometer and gauging instrument makers to the Hon. Board of Inland Revenue"; made standard weights and measures. | 1 Old Jewry, London. | Chaldecott 4; McConnell 4. | |
| LADD, EDWARD WILDS | England, pre-1847-60, PHIM | worked for R.B. Bate; maker of hydrometers and saccharometers to the Honourable Board of Inland Revenue; had John Streatfield as a partner in Ladd and Streatfield c.1847-1859; worked alone, as E.W. Ladd and Co. from Oct. 1859 to Dec. 1960 when he took Ludwig Oertling as a partner, this lasted until c.Aug. 1874. | 1 Old Jewry (1859); 192 Bishopsgate Street (1860); both in London. | Chaldecott 3 and 4; RGO. | |
| LADD, W., AND CO. | England, c.1850, OIM PHIM | Thermometer = Royal Institution; Microscope, compound = Minnesota Historical Society. | William Ladd. | 12 Beak Street, London. | USNM; RSW. |
| LADD, WILLIAM | England, fl.1847-69, OIM PHIM | Microscopes = D., Phillips 2/22/77, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. | made barometers and thermometers; optician; devised a method for coarse focusing on a microscope; had a display in the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. | 7 Cleaver Street, Kennington (1847); 31 Chancery Lane (1858); 11 and 12 Beak Street, Regent Street W. (1869); 29 Penton Street, Walworth Road; all in London. | Goodison 1; O'Mara; Fürst; Moskowitz; G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. |
| LADERRIERE | France, c.1900, NIM | Inclinometer, No. 2 = Versailles 4/17/83; Sextant = WHI. | "Service Hydrographique de la Marine Boussole d'inclinason de Laderrière No. 2" is marked on the inclinometer. | Bennett 1; RSW. | |
| LAENEN, F.A. | Belgium?, 1789, MIM | Garden Sundial, slate, 1789 = LIE. | Michel 9; RSW. | ||
| LAFFRANCHO, J. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(4). | sometimes spelled J. LaFrancho. | Ludlow. | Goodison 1. |
| LAFONTAINE | France, 19th Century, MIM | Cannon Sundial, miniature = D.(1988). | 18 Galerie Monpensier, Palais Royal, Paris. | RSW. | |
| LAFRANCHO, J. | England, | J. LaFrancho; see J. Laffrancho. | Ludlow. | Goodison 1. | |
| LAGARDE, A. | France, MIM | Horizontal Sundial = ADL-A32. | name stamped inside of lower half of box. | ADL; RSW. | |
| LAGNY | France, fl.1665-90, MIM | "arquebusier"; made instruments for the Paris Observatory and the Academy. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Nachet; Augarde. | |
| LAGSTINUS, FRANCS. | France?, 1602, MIM | Armillary Sphere with Ptolemaic Planetarium in center, 1602 = Watney Coll. = Christie 7/12/67. | Gunther 2. | ||
| LAIDIER, FRA J. | see Fra J. Lardier. | Evans 1. | |||
| LAIDMAN | England, PHIM | Marine Barometer = D.(1997). | possibly R.T. Laidman, which see. | ATG 5/24/97. | |
| LAIDMAN, R.T. | England, NIM | Octant, ebony and brass, case = Christie-SK 7/10/80. | West Hartlepool. | RSW. | |
| LAINTON, SAMUEL | England, c.1860, PHIM | Angle Barometers = WHI, X; Thermometer = X. | thermometer is on a Howorth barometer; may be cabinet maker at 9 King Cross Street (1860). | Halifax. | Goodison 1; Bell 2; Middleton 1. |
| LAIRD, DAVID WHITE | Scotland, fl.1834-51, NIM OIM | Octants, ebony = Soth. 6/20/74, FRK = RSM, Dundee Art Galleries; Telescope = Phillips-E 7/31/87. | also made clocks and watches; T.C. in Whitby Museum. | 4 Bridge Street (1834-42); 58 Bridge Street (1843-51); both in Leith. | Taylor 2(2167); Bryden 3; Clarke et al; Baillie 1; RSW. |
| LAK | Germany, 1773, MIM | Sundial, ivory, 1773 = Debreuil Coll. = NMM-Caird. | L.A.K.? | Nürnberg. | NMM 2; RSW. |
| LAKE AND SON | England, fl.1775-1800, MIM PHIM | Pantograph = D.(1972); Stick Barometer = Soth.-S 11/13/86. | Taunton. | Moskowitz 105. | |
| LAKE, THOMAS | England, 1770, NIM | Hadley's Quadrant, 1770 = NMM-S.103. | instrument made for Martin Walding. | Leadenhall Street, London. | Taylor 2(738); NMM 2. |
| LALANDE, JEROME LE FRANCOIS DE | France, fl.1771-1803, | Jérôme Le François de Lalande; astronomer; author; had the analemmatic sundial on the church in Bourg-en-Bresse restored; drew a celestial globe, 1792. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Howse 2; Cousins. | |
| LALAYE, M. | France, MIM | Planispheres = PBN (2). | Destombes 5. | ||
| LALIGANT | France, pre-1843, MIM | Balance = CNAM. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4. | ||
| LALLAERIUS, JACOBUS | Italy, 1636, MIM | Garden Sundial, slate, 1636 = P.C. (1971). | "astronomus fecit An. 1636"; for latitude 47 1/2°. | RSW. | |
| LALONDE | France, PHIM | Barometers = Lesoufaché Coll.(2). | Maurice 1. | ||
| LALOY, M. | France, 1607, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, lead, 1607 = house in Tourcil. | Limoges. | Gatty. | |
| LAMARDELLE | France, 18th Century, MIM | Baradelle? | à la sphère, Paris. | Nachet. | |
| LAMB, ANTHONY | England; USA, 1703-84, MIM NIM | Gauging Rod, 1759 = Streeter Coll., Yale U.; Backstaves = PEA (2-one dated 1747), Newport R.I. Historical Society Museum; Surveyor's Compass = USNM; Rule, wood inlaid with brass and ivory, 1759 = P.C.; Magnetic Compasses = D.(1986), Glebe House, Seabury Society; Haviland Instrument, ivory = P.C. | apprenticed to Henry Carter, MIM, of London pre-1724; transported to Maryland from Newgate Prison, London, 1724; made Thomas Godfrey 1's octant in 1731. | London (1703-24); at the Sign of the Compass and Quadrant, near the New Dock (1730); at the Sign of the Quadrant and Surveying Compass (1745); at the Sign of Sir Isaac Newton's Head (1749); all in New York, N.Y.; Hunter's Key, N.Y. (1753). | Taylor 2(191); Smart 1; Bedini 1, 7 and 8; Brewington 1; USNM; Coffeen 13; D.J. Warner 8, 10 and 12; RSW. |
| LAMB, ANTHONY, AND SON | USA, fl.1755-60, MIM NIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = Passaic County Historical Society, Paterson, N.J. | Anthony and John Lamb. | Hunter's Key, N.Y. | Smart 1; Bedini 1 and 7. |
| LAMB, JOHN | USA, 1735-1800, MIM SIM | apprenticed to his father, Anthony Lamb, and was his partner, 1755-60, as Anthony Lamb and Son; very active in the Revolution; became a wine-merchant. | Hunter's Key, N.Y. | Smart 1; Bedini 1, 7 and 8; Brewington 1. | |
| LAMB, JOSEPH | England, c.1827, MIM | Instrument = OXF; Slide Rule, circular, ivory and silver, 1827 = P.C. | author; watchmaker. | Taylor 2(1616); Delehar 9. | |
| LAMBE | Holland, c.1704, PHIM | made barometers and gave them names of English makers. | Amsterdam. | J. Brown 3. | |
| LAMBE, LUKE | England, c.1684, MIM | apprenticed to Johnson Weekes of the Clockmakers' Company on March 25, 1684. | J. Brown 3. | ||
| LAMBERT | Ireland, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-S 10/19/89. | Dublin. | RSW. | |
| LAMBERT LE FILS | France, 18th Century, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial = Soth. 12/12/55. | Lambert le fils. | Paris. | RSW. |
| LAMBERT PERE | France, 18th Century, MIM | Folding Square = ADL-W134; Sector = X; Mathematical Instrument Set = P-B 10/28/63; Protractor = Melun 6/10/79. | the protractor is signed "Lambert le Père." | Paris. | Michel 3; ADL; RSW. |
| LAMBERT, H. | NIM | Octant = Pugsley Sale = P.C. | RSW. | ||
| LAMBERT, J.S. | c.1770, | designed a combination horizontal and analemmatic sundial. | Ericson. | ||
| LAMBERT, THOMAS | England, c.1727, MIM | apprenticed to John Hutton 1 of the Clockmakers' Company on July 3, 1727. | J. Brown 3. | ||
| LAMBRIT, THOMAS | see Thomas Gemini. | ||||
| LAMINIT, JAKOB EMANUEL | Germany, 1719-60, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundials = AUG, HAM, GEL, SPI-2810, Koller 11/17/75. | brother-in-law of Johann Martin Willebrand. | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2; Michel 3; Evans 1; RSW. |
| LAMONBY, GEORGE BURNTHWAITE | England, | Lamonby may be town; see George Burnthwaite. | RSW. | ||
| LAMONT | Ireland, NIM | Octant = D.(1969). | Belfast. | RSW. | |
| LAMPLEY, CHARLES | England, c.1693, MIM | apprenticed to William Howe of the Grocers' Company on Nov. 7, 1683; free of the Company, Sept. 4, 1693. | J. Brown 1. | ||
| LAMPLOUGH | England, 1792, NIM | Octant, ebony and brass, 1792 = Phillips 5/20/75. | Burlington. | RSW. | |
| LAMY, SIMON | France?, MIM | Cannon Sundial = D.(c.1968). | RSW. | ||
| LANA, FRA FRANCESCO DE TERZI | Italy, 1631-87, | developed a microscope; author; physician. | Brescia. | Nachet. | |
| LANCAEUS, BALTHASSAR | Italy, fl.1557-71, MIM SIM | Surveying Instrument, 1557 = FLO; Artillery Instrument with Calipers, 1557 = FLO. | Lanci. | Urbino. | Bonelli 2 and 5; Evans 1; Michel 3; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. |
| LANCASTER | England, OIM | Telescope, brass, on steel stand = D.(1987). | possibly "Lancaster and Son" or "Jas. Lancaster and Son." | Birmingham. | RSW. |
| LANCASTER AND SON | England, OIM | Microscope, binocular = Wellcombe Museum (KEN) | probably James Lancaster and Son; opticians. | Birmingham. | Bryden 9. |
| LANCASTER AND SONS | England, c. 1830, PHIM | Stick Barometer = D.(1976). | may be Jas. Lancaster and Sons. | RSW. | |
| LANCASTER, CYRUS | USA, 1802-62, MIM | made many celestial and terrestrial globes, dating from 1825 to 1845; examples may be seen at USNM, Albany Institute of History and Art, N.Y. / Seward House, Auburn, N.Y. / Suffolk County Historical Society, Riverhead, N.Y. / P.C., D.(1975). | apprenticed to James Wilson 3; became his son-in-law; taken into firm of James Wilson and Sons in 1826, as manager of Wilson's factory. | 110 Washington Street, Albany, N.Y. | Bedini 8; Yonge; USNM; Moskowitz; RSW. |
| LANCASTER, GILBERT | England, c.1692, MIM | apprenticed to Nathaniel Anderton of the Grocers' Company on Dec. 7, 1683; free of the Company, June 6, 1692. | J. Brown 1. | ||
| LANCASTER, JAS., AND SON | England, c.1830, OIM | Telescope = Christie-SK 12/1/83. | Birmingham. | RSW. | |
| LANDECK, ANDREAS | Germany, 1589-1663, MIM | Vertical Sundial, copper, 1647 = NUR. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Baillie 1; Maurice 1. | |
| LANDECK, JOHANN MELCHIOR | Germany, 18th.Century, MIM | Pedometer with Sundial = BM. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Price 3; Ward 4. | |
| LANDRINI | Italy, c.1750, MIM | Air Thermometer = DRE. | Drebbel-type. | Grötzsch 2; RSW. | |
| LANDTECK, ENDRES | see Andreas Landeck. | Lunardi. | |||
| LANDTSCHOT, HENDRICK VAN | Holland, fl.1682-83, | held a 1683 patent on a nautical instrument. | Middelburg. | Rooseboom 1. | |
| LANE, H. | England, 1776, | Terrestrial Globe, with case = Phillips 2/14/79. | probably a misreading of N. Lane. | RSW. | |
| LANE, JOHN | England, c.1799, MIM NIM SIM | T.C., 1799. | at the Blue Coat Boy and Quadrant, in the Great-Minories, London. | C.N. Robinson. | |
| LANE, NATHANIEL | England, fl.1776-1829, MIM | made miniature terrestrial globes, many in shagreen cases lined with celestial gores; dates range from 1776 to 1829; examples can be seen at the Chicago Ill. Historical Society, PAM, NMM, and many other museums. | they are signed "Lane's Pocket Globe" or "Lane's Improved Globe"; the celestial gores lining the cases of the miniature globes show a geocentric projection. | London. | Taylor 2(740); Clay and Court; Dewhirst; Wynter and Turner; NMM 2; Yonge; Krogt 2; RSW. |
| LANE, NICHOLAS | England, c.1783, MIM | father of Thomas Lane; globe maker. | London. | Crawforth 7. | |
| LANE, R.E. | England, NIM | Octant, mahagony = X. | RSWx. | ||
| LANE, SAMUEL | USA, 1718-1806, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, 1760 = New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, N.H. | surveyor; the globe was made to help him in his work. | Stratham, New Hampshire. | Bedini 8; Yonge. |
| LANE, THOMAS | England, c.1801, | son of Nicholas Lane, a globe maker; apprenticed to Robert Tangate 1 in the Joiners' Company on Nov. 4, 1783; free in the Company, Mar. 3, 1801. | Crawforth 7. | ||
| LANEN, PIETER JACOBSE VAN DER | Holland, c.1740?, NIM | Compass = Königl. Institut für Meereskunde, Berlin. | Rotterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | |
| LANG | France, 18th Century, MIM | Rule = ADL-M133; Artillery Level = D.(1987). | "Mechanicien du Roy pour l'artillerie"; might be the same as Joh. Phil. Lang. | Strasbourg. | Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. |
| LANG, JOH. PHIL. | France, 1748-62, MIM | Quadrant, 3' radius, on stand, 1762 = Musée Lorrain, Nancy; Quadrant, 1748 = STR. | both quadrants are made of iron and brass. | Strasbourg; Paris. | Michel 3 & 14; RSW. |
| LANG, JOHANN CHRISTOFF | Germany, c.1600, MIM | Astrolabe Clock = ADL-M383. | Price dated it at c.1580. | Augsburg. | Zinner 1; Engelmann 1; Price 2; Michel 2; ADL; RSW. |
| LANG, JOSEPH | England, OIM | Microscope = Christie-SK 4/17/86. | 43 Eastcheap, London. | RSW. | |
| LANGE DE BOURBON | France, 1753, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1753 = Oudheidkundige Museum, Ghent; Butterfield-type Sundials = Christie-SK 4/17/86, UTO 9/29/75, MERC (rectangular) = Spaulding = Lempertz 6/14/76 = D.(1976); Instrument = Wallace Coll. | Paris. | Hamilton 2; Brieux 3; F.J.B. Watson; RSW. | |
| LANGE DE BOURBON, M. | France, c.1710, PHIM | Barometer and Thermometer = NYM; Stick Barometer = X. | "faiseur de barometres du Roi." | Paris. | Vincent 2; Hamilton 2; Tyler. |
| LANGENBUCHER, JACOB | Germany, 1649-1712, MIM OIM | Compass = ADL-M470; Universal Ring Dial = D. | also made terrestrial and celestial globes, telescopes, etc. | Augsburg. | Zinner 1 & 6; Brieux 3; ADL; RSW. |
| LANGFORD, EDWIN | England, c.1850, MIM NIM | Sector = D.(1935); Octant = D. | Bristol. | M. Gardner 2 (1935); Bryden 9; O'Mara 2; Moskowitz 106. | |
| LANGFORD, J. | England, PHIM | barometer maker. | Bell 2. | ||
| LANGHANS, HANNS WOLFF | Germany, c.1687, MIM | sandglass maker. | Nürnberg. | Lunardi. | |
| LANGLANDS, JOHN | England, c.1820, MIM | Pocket Compass = Soth. 12/3/76. | Newcastle. | RSW. | |
| LANGLEY, LEMUEL | USA, 1828, | patented a method of adjusting the marine compass in 1828. | Gosport or Norfolk, Virginia. | Bedini 8; USNM. | |
| LANGLEY, W. | England, 19th Century, PHIM | Grain Balance = Soth. 1/27/75. | 46 Tooley Street, London. | RSW. | |
| LANGLOIS ET LAPIE | France, 1815, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, 1815 = Gonse Coll. = MADEX-26 = NMM-G.114. | H. Langlois and Lapie. | Paris. | NMM 2. |
| LANGLOIS, CHARLES FRANCIS | France, c.1700, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial = DRE; Pantograph = DRE; Graphometer = DRE. | Paris. | Grötzsch 2. | |
| LANGLOIS, CLAUDE | France, c.1730-50, MIM SIM | made various types of sundials and surveying, mathematical and astronomical instruments which can be seen at ADL, POB, CNAM, OXF, HAK, NMM, DRE, NYM, LOU, HAY, WHI, Huelsmann Coll., etc. | installed the meridian in St. Suplice Eglise in 1744; perfected the pantograph in 1743; "Ingénieur"; most instruments are signed "Langlois" or "C. Langlois"; worked for the Academy of Sciences; succeeded by his nephew, Canivet. | Au Niveau; aux Galeries du Louvre; both in Paris. | Daumas 1; Grötzsch 2; Körber 1; Michel 3; NMM 2; Engelmann 1; Josten; Bryden 16; Trois Siècles; Evans 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; J.A. Bennett 2; Syndram; ADL; RSW. |
| LANGLOIS, H. | France, 1815, MIM | globe maker; see Langlois et Lapie. | NMM 2. | ||
| LANGLOIS, JEAN | France, fl.1720-27, MIM | Circumferentor, telescopic, 1720 = de la Mosson Coll. = Buffon Coll.(1744) = D.(1976); Alidade, 1726 = Drouot Richelieu 4/28/88; Universal Ring Dial = CNAM; Microscope = RMS; Butterfield-type Sundials = FIT (WHI), Soth. 7/10/67; Circumferentor, 1727 = X; Plane Table with Telescope and Sundial, 1727 = de la Mosson Coll. = D. = LOU; Rule, case, 1726 = Drouot Richelieu 4/28/88. | "élève du Sieur Butterfield." | aux Armes d'Angleterre, Paris. | Daumas 1; CNAM 2; Clay and Court; Dewhirst; Michel 3; Gersaint; A.J. Turner 10; Bryden 16; RSW. |
| LANGLOIS, L. | France, 1745-47, MIM | Graphometer = MADEX. | probably Claude Langlois; instrument marked "L'Ecole Nat. des Ponts et Chaussées." | au Niveau, Paris. | MADEX; RSW. |
| LANGLOIS, TIMOTHEE | France, 1693, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial, silver = Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pa. | Thimothée Langlois; the Butterfield dial is signed "T. Langlois, siezième"; Baillie listed him as a water clock maker. | Paris. | Baillie 1; RSW. |
| LANGREN, ARNOLD FLORENT VAN | Holland, fl.1586-1625, MIM | Celestial Globes = Lindköping Stiftsbibliothek (1586), NMM (1589 and 1624); Pair of Globes = Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp; Terrestrial Globes = NMM (1589), U. Library of Gand; Armillary Sphere = stolen. | Jacob Florent van Langren, his father, engraved the gores; Gand globe signed "Arnold Florent Filius." | Amsterdam. | Zinner 1; NMM 1 and 2; ART; Belgian Inv. |
| LANGREN, JACOB FLORENT VAN | Denmark; Holland, fl.1586-1625, | engraved terrestrial and celestial gores; many were made up by his son, Arnold Florent van Langren. | Amsterdam. | Zinner 1; Belgian Inv.; Globus Dec., 1957. | |
| LANGSTON, D. | England, c.1825, OIM | 116 Cheapside, London. | Taylor 2(1617). | ||
| LANGTHORNE, JOSEPH | England, c.1709, MIM | apprenticed to John Wood 1 of the Clockmakers' Company on Dec. 5, 1709. | J. Brown 3. | ||
| LANGWER, P. | Germany, MIM SIM | Circumferentor = BRE. | Zinner 1. | ||
| LANIER | France, c.1750, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial = ADL-T59. | Paris. | Tomlinson 1; ADL; RSW. | |
| LANSUERG, ANGELUS | Italy, | misreading for Lusuerg. | Evans 1. | ||
| LANZ, NIKOLAUS | Austria, c.1550, MIM | Astronomical Clock = VIE. | Innsbruck. | Neumann 1. | |
| LAPIE | France, c.1815, MIM | Armillary Sphere, wood and paper = Melun 6/10/79. | see Langlois et Lapie. | Paris. | NMM 2; RSW. |
| LAPP, MARIA CATHARINA | 1731, MIM | Measure, 1731 = MADEX-564. | RSW. | ||
| LAPPI AND SOLCHA | England, fl.1838-51, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | may be Salvattore Lappi and Lewis Solcha; what about Luppie and Solcha, which see. | 17 Robinson Row, Hull. | Goodison 1; Loomes 1. |
| LAPREY | see Lippershey. | Nachet. | |||
| LARAUX, P. DE | England, c.1711, MIM | designed a garden sundial which was made in 1711 by J. van der Cloese; see Jacob van der Cloese. | Stamford. | Evans 1?; RSW. | |
| LARBRE, CECILE | France, 1867, MIM SIM | Alidade with Level, ivory on tortoise shell = TIM. | S.G.D.G.; breveté. | Reims. | Evans 1; RSW. |
| LARDIER, FRA J. | France, 1567, MIM | Armillary Sphere, 1567 = Troyes. | Evans 1. | ||
| LARESCHE, ANCIENNE MAISON | France, pre-1833, MIM | succeeded by Henry Robert, which see. | Paris. | RSW. | |
| LARGE | England, c.1820, PHIM | barometer maker. | Melton Mowbray. | Bell 2. | |
| LARGE, JOSEPH | USA, fl.1852-63, PHIM | Aneroid Barometer = Maine Historical Society, Portland. | New York, N.Y. | USNM. | |
| LARKIN, THOMAS | England, c.1800, NIM | T.C. | Soth. 11/16/87. | ||
| LARMOUR AND CO. | USA, NIM | Octant = Seamans Institute, N.Y. | Baltimore, Md. | USNM. | |
| LAROCHE | France, c.1800, OIM | made achromatic telescopes. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | |
| LAROSE FILS | France, MIM SIM | Theodolite = P.C. | chez son père à Clermont. | RSW. | |
| LAROUE | France, 18th Century, PHIM | invented and made the first spherometer. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | |
| LARTIGUE | France, c.1777, MIM | globe maker; engineer. | Nachet. | ||
| LASACHER, JOHANN MICHAEL | Germany, MIM | Horizontal Sundial = PRA. | Zinner 1. | ||
| LASHBROOK, THOMAS | England, c.1701, MIM | apprenticed to Richard Conyers of the Clockmakers' Company on April 3, 1693; free of the Company, Sept. 29, 1701; took apprentices. | London. | J. Brown 3. | |
| LASHBROOKE, HENRY | England, c.1727, | apprenticed to John Crooke 1 or 2 in the Joiners' Company on Oct. 3, 1727. | Crawforth 7. | ||
| LASNIER | France, fl.1693-1740, MIM SIM | made a wide range of mathematical instruments including sundials and graphometers that may be seen at ADL, NMM, THO, LIE, HAY, WHI, KEN, VEN, NAC, AMST, etc. | aux Deux Globes, Paris. | Daumas 1; Clay and Court; Nachet; KEN; Mörzer Bruyns 1; USNM; Michel 1, 3 and 9; Price 2; Engelmann 1; Brieux 3; NMM 2; Dewhirst; ADL; RSW. | |
| LASSERE, MICHEL | Michel Lasséré; see Père Chérubin. | Nachet. | |||
| LASSETER | England, c.1810, OIM | 8 Green Street, Leicester Square, London. | Taylor 2(1375). | ||
| LATTREE | France, c.1771, MIM | Celestial Globe = Nouveau Drouot 5/20/88. | "Chez Lattrée graveur ordinaire du Roi, de M. le Duc d'Orléans et de la Ville"; "Autre privilège et approbat de MM. de l'Academie Rle. des Sciences"; the globe was probably prepared by Lalande and published by Lattrée. | Chez Lattrée rue St. Jacques à la Ville de Bord, Paris. | RSW. |
| LAUN, A. EN J. VAN | Holland, fl.1816-30, MIM PHIM | Orreries = P.C., LEY, DEU (1825); Thermometer = P.C. | Abrahan Hartog and Jacob van Laun; sons of Hartog van Laun. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2; Zinner 1; Rooseboom 1; van der Star 1; RSW. |
| LAUN, H. VAN, EN ZONEN | Holland, fl.1802-15, MIM PHIM | Horizon Rings and Stands = LRY, RIJ, NMM, Ellburg Museum; Tellurium (partial) = FRA. | Hartog van Laun and his sons, Abraham and Jacob. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2; Zinner 1. |
| LAUN, H. VAN, EN ZOON | Holland, fl.1802-15, MIM PHIM | Planetariums = Leiden Sternewacht, Zutphen Museum, LEY; Horizon Ring and Stand = TEY; Electrometer = UTR. | probably Hartog van Laun and his son Abraham van Laun. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2; Zinner 1. |
| LAUN, HARTOG ABRAHAM VAN | Holland, 1733-1815, MIM OIM PHIM | Microscope = LEY; Planetariums = LEY, Physics Laboratory, Amsterdam; Attwood Machine = Museum of Education, The Hague. | pupil of John Cuthbertson; see H. van Laun en Zon. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2; Rooseboom 1; van der Star 1. |
| LAUN, JACOB VAN | Holland; France, c.1778-1832, MIM PHIM | Rule = P.C. | worked with his father, Hartog van Laun, 1802-15, and with his brother, Abraham, 1816-32. | Amsterdam; Launay, France (c.1800). | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2; RSW. |
| LAUR, JEAN ANTOINE | France, c.1850, MIM | exhibited in the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. | 4, Rue St. Claude au Marais, Paris. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | |
| LAURENS, W.J. | Holland, OIM | Telescope = P.C. | Hoorn. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | |
| LAURETUS, CHRISTOPHER | France, 1598, | marked "Ex. Mente Christophori Laureti Agendicensis 1598" on an astrolabe, ADL-M31, which is signed "Martinot Fecit", which see. | Sens. | Engelmann 1; Price 1; ICA 2; Gunther 1; ADL; RSW. | |
| LAURIE, JAMES | Scotland, fl.1792-98, MIM OIM PHIM | see Gardner and Laurie (1792-98); partner with John Gardner 1. | Glasgow. | Bryden 3; Clarke et al. | |
| LAURIER, FRAN | France, 18th Century, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, string gnomon = OXF; Sundial, silver = P. & S. 3/20/1896; Diptych Sundial, silver = P.C. | Blois. | Evans 1; Michel 3; RSW. | |
| LAUTERBACH, A.B. | Germany, 1716, MIM | Münster-type Universal Sundial = X. | Jena. | Zinner 6. | |
| LAUTERBACH, HIERONYMUS | Austria, fl.1556-77, MIM | Pillar Sundial, 1576 = GRA. | Graz. | Zinner 1. | |
| LAUTERBACH, JOH. BALT. | Germany, 1683, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1683 = LND. | Zinner 6. | ||
| LAVAL | France, 1786, MIM | Steelyard, 1786 = CNAM. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4. | ||
| LAVERACK, HENRY | England, c.1830, MIM | 35 Bridgewater Street, Liverpool. | Taylor 2(1913). | ||
| LAVIGNE | Belgium?, 1794, MIM | Garden Sundial, granite, 1794 = LIE. | Michel 9. | ||
| LAVINGANUS, BRENTEL | 1627-29, MIM | Cube Sundial, wood and paper, 1627 = NOR. | RSW. | ||
| LAWLEY | England, 19th.Century, | see Millikan and Lawley. | RSW. | ||
| LAWLEY, W. | England, post-1850, OIM | Microscope = Soth. 7/12/71. | 78 Fardingdon Street, London, E.C. | RSW. | |
| LAWRENCE | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | ||
| LAWRENCE AND MAYO | England, c.1850, MIM NIM | Sextants = Soth.2/22/71, Melun 4/24/83; Cannon Sundial = D.(1977). | the sextant sold at Sotheby has the Nat'l Physical Lab. Certificate; the Melun sextant is signed "Lawrence et Maye." | London. | RSW. WEBDB. |
| LAWRENCE ET MAYE | see Lawrence and Mayo. | ||||
| LAWRENCE, A.B.D. | England, MIM | Nest of Weights = Soth. 4/22/65. | RSW. | ||
| LAWRENCE, BENJAMIN | England, c.1750, MIM | apprenticed to James Rowley of the Clockmakers' Company on July 6, 1730. | J. Brown 3. | ||
| LAWSON | England, c.1810, PHIM | Wheel Barometer with clock = D.(1984). | clock is by J.N. Edwards, London. | Bishopsgate Street, London. | RSW. |
| LAWSON, HENRY | England, fl.1796-1839, OIM | brother of Johnson Lawson; apprenticed to Edward Nairne (his step-father), of the Spectaclemakers' Company on Dec. 6, 1788; free of the Company by servitude, April 12, 1796; Master of the Company, 1803-05. | 45 Gower Street (1817); 12 Chancery Lane (1839); both in London. | Court and von Rohr 3(224); Clay and Court. | |
| LAWSON, JOHNSON | England, fl.1796-1813, OIM | brother of Henry Lawson; apprenticed to Edward Nairne of the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1789; free of the Company on April 12, 1796; Master of the Company in 1813. | 11 Bedford Street, Bedford Lane, London. | Court and von Rohr 3(225). | |
| LAYBOURN | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Royston. | Goodison 1. | |
| LAZARS, J. | Scotland, c.1838, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Phillips 12/2/87. | may be Lizars ? | Edinburgh. | RSW. |
| LE BAS | France, 18th Century, MIM | Sector = NMM. | probably Philippe-Claude Le Bas. | Paris. | NMM 2. |
| LE BAS ET MENARD | France, post-1650, OIM | Le Bas et Ménard. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | |
| LE BAS FILS | France, fl.1688-1721, OIM | Telescope, Gregorian = Prin Coll. | son of Philippe-Claude Le Bas; succeeded his mother, Veuve Le Bas. | Paris. | Daumas 1. |
| LE BAS, PHILIPPE-CLAUDE | France, fl.1669-76, MIM OIM SIM | Telescopic Quadrant = ADL-M186; Telescope = ADL-W179; Telescope, large = Bonnier de la Mosson Coll.; Microscope = Père Lami (1703); Proportional Compass, 1669 = X. | optician to the King; made very fine lenses; shop carried on by his widow and, later by his son; ADL quadrant is signed "divisé par Le Bas", and has a micrometer attachment by Pierre Le Maire in 1741. | aux Galleries du Louvre, Paris. | Daumas 1; Ronfort 1; Engelmann 1; Nachet; ADL; RSW. |
| LE BAS, VEUVE | France, fl.1676-80, OIM | succeeded her husband, Philippe-Claude Le Bas; made instruments for the Paris Observatory. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | |
| LE COEUR | see Lecour | Taylor 2(375). | |||
| LE FEBURE, ADRIEN | France, 1640, MIM | Ring Sundial, 1640 = USNM. | Paris. | RSW. | |
| LE GENDRE | France, MIM | Table Sundial (incomplete), with case = P.C. | au Pantographe, Paris. | RSW. | |
| LE GROS, PETER JOSEPH | Ireland, fl.1835-39, MIM | 22 Joy Street (1835); 46 Joy Street (1839); both in Belfast. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | ||
| LE JARS | France, c.1850, OIM | successor to Maison Richer. | L'Hermite, Paris. | RSW. | |
| LE LACHEUR AND LENFESTEY | England, c.1800, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = D.(Oct. 1975). | Guernsey. | RSW. | |
| LE MAIRE | France, fl.1846-c. 90, OIM | Telescope, binocular = OXF; Opera Glasses = P.C., K. and C. 11/24/76. | K. and C. signed "Le Maire Fabi", for "`fabrique"? | rue de Ménilmontant, 22, Paris. | USNM; G.L'E. Turner 24. |
| LE MAIRE ET FILS | France, c.1740, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial = Oudheidkunige Museum, Ghent; Rule, folding = Christie 12/18/74. | Jacques Le Maire and his son, Pierre Le Maire 2. | à la Pierre d'Aimant; au Quartier Anglais; both in Paris. | RSW. |
| LE MAIRE FILS | France, | Gunnery Level = D.(1994). | see Pierre Le Maire 2; sometimes signed "Le Maire le Fils." | Paris. | Coffeen 46; RSW. |
| LE MAIRE LE FILS | Pierre Le Maire 2 was the son of Jacques Le Maire. | Daumas 1. | |||
| LE MAIRE, FRANCOIS | France, c.1700, MIM | Equatorium = Jaipur Observatory. | François Le Maire. | Paris. | Poulle 8; Brieux 2. |
| LE MAIRE, HENRI | France, c.1675, MIM | father of Pierre Le Maire 1. | Paris. | Gaines. | |
| LE MAIRE, JACQUES | France, fl.1720-40, MIM OIM | made many sundials of various types including one invented by Julien Le Roy; examples can be seen in many museums including CNAM, TIM, BM, OXF, NMM, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., WHI, etc. | father of Pierre Le Maire 2; some sundials are signed "fait par Jacques Le Maire et inventé par Julien Le Roy de la Société des Arts au Génie, Paris"; developed a variant of the Newtonian telescope in 1728; made a variant of the Hadley quadrant. | au Génie, Paris. | Daumas 1; Bryden 16; Evans 1; Brieux 2; Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; NMM 2; Price 3; Ward 4; USNM; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. |
| LE MAIRE, JEAN | France, MIM | member of the "Corporation des Fondeurs". | Paris. | Augarde. | |
| LE MAIRE, NICOLAS | France, c.1683, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundials = HAY, Drouot Richelieu 4/28/88, Lempertz-464; Graphometer = Versailles 11/19/78; Instrument = CNAM; Universal Ring Sundial = A-P 3/15/76. | the sundial at Drouot is for 47°33'. | Paris. | Daumas 1; RSW. |
| LE MAIRE, PIERRE 1 | France, c.1675, MIM | Pantometer (sighting instrument) = CNAM. | son of Henri Le Maire. | sur le quai des Morfundus au Cercle divisé, Paris. | Daumas 1; Gaines. |
| LE MAIRE, PIERRE 2 | France, 1717-85, MIM NIM PHIM | made sundials, mathematical instruments and lodestones which can be seen in many museums including ADL, GEP, BASH, MUN, PAK, MLL, USNM, CNAM, NMM, PMM, BM, HAY, Louvre, Cambridge Archaeological Museum, Snowshill, STT, DRE, WHI, etc. | added a micrometer in 1741 to the Le Bas quadrant, ADL-M186; the ADL-DPW31 lodestone is dated 1754 and another, from a 1975 sale is dated 1738; a marine compass, 1744 (PMM) is signed "Le Maire le fils quai de l'Horloge, Paris", from And.-SPI. sale; see Le Maire Fils and Le Maire le Fils. | au nouveau quartier anglais, quai de l'Horloge du Palais, au coin de la rue du Harloy; à la Pierre d'Aimant; both in Paris. | Daumas 1; Price 2 and 3; Ward 4; Pipping 1; Drechsler 2; USNM; Dewhirst; Courtanvaux; Wynter 1; Coffeen A and 46; Engelmann 1; RSW; Bryden 16; Bedini 8; Syndram; ADL. |
| LE MANCHOT, JEHAN | France, c.1562, MIM | mentioned as maker of sundials. | Blois. | Michel 3. | |
| LE MARIEE | France, c.1790, OIM | Microscope = LEY. | Le Mariée. | Strasbourg. | Daumas 1. |
| LE NOUR | misreading for Lenoir (Etienne). | USNM. | |||
| LE REBOURG | France, | misreading for Lerebours. | RSW. | ||
| LE REBOURS | misreading for Lerebours. | ||||
| LE ROY 1 | France, c.1700, MIM | Universal Sundial, silver and brass = Spaulding Coll; Universal Sundial, silver = Hamilton = McVitty = P-B 1/22/54. | may be single instrument. | Paris. | Hamilton 2. |
| LE ROY 2 | France, c.1714, MIM | son-in-law of Jean Pigeon; constructed an armillary sphere with him in 1714. | Lyon. | Guye et Michel. | |
| LE ROY 3 | France, c.1800, MIM | Armillary Sphere = MADEX; Sundial, oval, silver = P-B 1/22/54. | Paris. | RSW. | |
| LE ROY, J.B. | England, c.1820, NIM | Octant = De Young Museum, San Francisco; Quadrant, ebony, ivory and brass = D.(1981). | Jersey. | USNM; Moskowitz. | |
| LE ROY, JEAN-BAPTISTE | France, fl.pre-1751-1800, OIM PHIM | son of Julien Le Roy; made electrical machines, microscopes and telescopes; member of French Academy of Sciences, 1751. | Moskowitz 122. | ||
| LE ROY, JULIEN | France, 1686-1759, MIM | Equatorial Sundial, silver = NMM-D.90; Inclinable Sundials = D.(1986), Drouot 4/7/87. | clockmaker; "ancien directeur de la Société des Arts" ; invented an inclinable sundial, "Cadran Universel et à Meridienne. Fait et inventé par Julien Le Roi", also made by Jacques Le Maire, example at WHI,; invented a vertical sundial made by Gérard. | la Société des Arts, Paris. | Daumas 1; Michel 1; Price 3; Ward 4; USNM; NMM 2; Wynter 1; Bryden 16; RSW. |
| LE SAGE, F. | France, c.1856, PHIM | Barometer = Soth. 5/19/72. | Paris. | RSW. | |
| LE SENEY, SEBASTIAN | France; England, fl.1538-47, MIM | Astrolabe = BM (ICA-305). | instrument maker to Henry VIII. | Normandy; St. Margeret's, Westminster, London (1541). | Taylor 1(11a); Gunther 1; Price 1 and 3; Ward 4; ICA 2; RSW. |
| LE TELLIER, JACQUES | France, c.1780, MIM | Pillar Sundials, ivory = VEN, Evans Coll., P. and S. 4/3/1894. | may be c.1660; VEN is marked "A.B." (5) on bottom. | Dieppe. | Evans 1; Earle; Dewhirst; Price 2; RSW. |
| LE TELLIER, NICOLLAS | France, 1632, NIM | Mariner's Astrolabe, 1632 = CAU. | ICA-322; NMM-17; National Maritime Museum Registery of Mariner's Astrolabe; lost in World War II. | Honnefleur. | Gunther 1; Price 1; ICA 2; Waters 1; Anthiaume et Sottas; A. Stimson 3; Evans 1. |
| LE-SECQ | France, c.1815, PHIM | Barometer = USNM. | de la Gorgue, Dept. du Nord. | Middleton 4. | |
| LEA, ANNE | England, fl.1701-30, MIM | widow of Philip Lea; globe maker; in partnership with her son-in-law, Richard Glynne, 1712-25; also produced maps. | at the Atlas and Hercules in Cheapside (1701-12); at the Atlas and Hercules in Fleet Street (1720-25); both in London. | Tyacke 1. | |
| LEA, JOHN | England, c.1626, | apprenticed to John Blighton 1 of the Grocers' Company on June 24, 1626. | J. Brown 1. | ||
| LEA, PHILIP | England, fl.1689-1700, MIM | Planispheres = Burton Constable (2). | apprenticed to Robert Morden of the Weavers' Company in 1675; free of the Company in 1683; father-in-law of Richard Glynne; Lea published maps and globes; succeeded by his widow, Anne Lea in 1701; see Morden, Berry and Lea. | at the Atlas and Hercules in the Poultry over against the old Jury (1683-86); at the Atlas and Hercules in Cheapside next to the corner of Friday Street (1687-1700) and also in Westminster Hall near the Court of Common Pleas (1689-95); all in London. | Tyacke 1; Elizabeth Hall; NMM 2; Evans 1; Taylor 1(309); Daumas 1; Dawson 216; Crawforth 6; RSW. |
| LEA, R. | England, PHIM | barometer maker. | Ringwood. | Bell 2. | |
| LEACH | England, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | probably George Leach. | Salisbury. | Goodison 1. |
| LEACH, CALEB | USA, c.1800, MIM | Orrery = Pere Fobes (c.1800). | clockmaker; Asa Hall assisted in the construction. | Plymouth, Mass. | Bedini 8. |
| LEACH, GEORGE | England, fl.1830-60, PHIM | watch and clockmaker; see Leach. | Exeter Street, Salisbury (1830). | Goodison 1. | |
| LEADBETTER, CHARLES | England, fl.1715-69, | designed a new slide rule with a third slide in 1739; author. | Hand and Pen, Cock Lane, Shore-ditch, London. | Taylor 2(84); Delehar 2. | |
| LEAKE, FAITH | England, 1678, | apprenticed to Daniel Quare 1 in the Clockmakers' Company, 1678. | J. Brown 3. | ||
| LEAKE, JOHN | England, fl.1650-86, MIM | made a globe sundial for Leadenhall Corner (1655); invented a rule for solving spherical triangles. | London. | Taylor 1(239). | |
| LEALAND | see Powell and Lealand. | G.L'E. Turner 1. | |||
| LEALAND, P. | England, fl.1826-40, MIM OIM SIM | Theodolite, 1826 = J. Nixon (1826); Rule, three-foot = ADL-A267. | may be connected with Powell and Lealand. | 24 Great Clarendon Street, Summerstown, London (1836-40). | Taylor 2(1618); G.L'E. Turner 24; ADL; RSW. |
| LEAN, JOEL | England, c.1790, | mine manager; developed an improved miner's dial. | Cornwall. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | |
| LEANIE AND CO. | England, OIM | Microscope = D.(1972). | Church Street, Liverpool. | RSW. | |
| LEAR, ANTHONY JAMES | England, fl.1828-36, MIM PHIM | 4 Arlington Street (1828-29); 36 St. John's Lane (1832-36); both in Clerkenwell, London. | Taylor 2(1914); O'Mara. | ||
| LEAVIT, JACOB | USA, 1760, MIM | Window Sundial, 1760 = USNM. | Massachusetts. | RSW. | |
| LEAVITT, WILLIAM | USA, 1801-83, | may have invented a string course protractor. | Salem, Mass. | Brewington 1. | |
| LEBEGUE, J., ET CIE. | France, MIM | Terrestrial Globes on iron stands = Christie-SK 8/20/87 (2), Gersaint, La Rochelle 7/20/96. | "éditeurs fabricants." | 30 Rue de Lille, Paris. | RSW. |
| LEBLI, S. | England, c.1825, PHIM | Thermometer = D. | Portsea Town. | RSW. | |
| LEBOURS | France, MIM | Sector = D.(1968). | Lerebours? | RSW. | |
| LEBRUN, ALEXANDRE | France, c.1850, MIM | displayed at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London; Salomon was his agent at 22 Red Lion Square, London. | 3 rue Chapon, Paris. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | |
| LEBRUN, JEHAN | France, c.1642, MIM | "Chez Jehan Lebrun faiseur de sphères, astrolabes et autres instruments géometriques......"; inscription on a paper astrolabe (ICA-220) by G. Picquet at CNAM. | Rue St. Jacques, au Globe celéste, Paris. | Daumas 1; Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; Price 1; Gunther 1; ICA 2; Michel 3. | |
| LEBUS, LE MAITRE | France, 1747, MIM | Variation Compass, 1747 = PMM | Paris. | Price 2; RSW. | |
| LECLAIR | France, c.1680, MIM | Calipers, large, gilt-brass = MAD, ROU-166 = Doucet-249 = P.C. | hidden signature under the cover of the pivot; Doucet thought the date was c.1780; probably J.-B. Leclair. | Rue Dauphine à l'image Nôtre Dame, Paris. | Nachet; Daumas 1; Michel 3 & 5; Evans 1; Doucet Cat.; RSW. |
| LECLAIR, J.-B. | France, c.1780?, MIM | probably the same as "Leclair." | Doucet Cat. | ||
| LECLERC | France, 1527, MIM | Nocturnal, 1527 = ROU-74. | Paris. | Michel 3. | |
| LECLERC, ALEXIS | France, 1715, | instrument maker? | Paris. | Doucet Cat. | |
| LECLERC, FRANCOIS | France, 1604, MIM | François Leclerc; brother of Jacques Leclerc. | Doucet Cat. | ||
| LECLERC, JACQUES 1 | France, 1604, MIM | brother of François Leclerc. | Doucet Cat. | ||
| LECLERC, JACQUES 2 | France, 1715, | instrument maker? | Paris. | Doucet Cat. | |
| LECLERC, LOUIS | France, 1715, | instrument maker? | Paris. | Doucet Cat. | |
| LECLERC, PIERRE 1 | France, 1715, | instument maker? | Paris. | Doucet Cat. | |
| LECLERC, PIERRE 2 | France, 1741, | instrument maker? | Paris. | Doucet Cat. | |
| LECOMTE, FRANCOIS | France, c.1800, PHIM | Barometer with movable scale = CNAM. | François Lecomte. | Middleton 1. | |
| LECOUR, JAMES 1 | England, fl.1743-61, OIM | apprenticed to Matthew Loft of the Spectaclemakers' Company on July 29, 1736; free of the Company, Oct. 6, 1743; sold anamorphic images. | Dean Street, Fetter Lane, London (1761). | Taylor 2(375); Court and von Rohr 3(139). | |
| LECOUR, JAMES 2 | England, c.1770, OIM | apprenticed to Peter Dollond of the Spectaclemakers' Company on Oct 3, 1770. | London. | Taylor 2(375); Court and von Rohr 3(198). | |
| LEDERMULLER, MARTIN FROBIN | Germany, 1719-69, | Ledermüller; developed a simple microscope; author. | Nürnberg. | Nachet; Daumas 1. | |
| LEE, GEORGE | England, c.1830, NIM | T.C. | 33 The Hard, Portsea. | RSW. | |
| LEE, GEORGE, AND SON | England, fl.1847-80, MIM NIM OIM | Artificial Horizon = Soth. 11/9/59. | T.C.; "Mathematical, Optical and Nautical Instrument Makers to the Hon. Corporation of Trinity House and the Admiralty"; "established 1847." | Ordnance Row, The Hard, Portsea and 3 Palmerston Road, Southsea. | Calvert 2; O'Mara; G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW; Crawforth 1. |
| LEE, JOHN | England, c.1810, | citizen and clothworker; William Rise, an apprentice, was turned over to him by John Symons of the Grocers' Company. | J. Brown 2. | ||
| LEE, MRS. PHILIP | England, | misreading for Anne Lea. | Clay and Court; Daumas 1. | ||
| LEE, NEWMARCH | England, 1824, NIM | Compass Card, 1824 = in Thomas Smith azimuth compass. | T.C. in box of Fairey octant. | Hull. | NMM 2; Moskowitz 102. |
| LEE, PHILLIP | misreading for Philip Lea. | Clay and Court; Daumas 1. | |||
| LEE, S. AND S. | England, c.1830, OIM | 15 Clement Street, Leamington. | Taylor 2(1915). | ||
| LEECH, ABSOLOM | England, MIM | Sundial in a walking stick = OXF. | Evans 1. | ||
| LEEK, JOHN | see John Leake. | Gatty. | |||
| LEENHARDT | Holland, 1779, MIM | Perpetual Calendar, 1779 = SPI. | Nachet thought he was German. | Michel 3; Nachet. | |
| LEEUWARDEN, WEDUWE SIMON VAN | Holland, c.1744, MIM NIM OIM | the widow of Simon van Leeuwarden; sold compasses, sandglasses, telescopes, sounding leads, etc. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 5. | |
| LEEUWENHOEK, ANTONI VAN | Holland, 1632-1723, OIM | Microscopes = LEY, NAC, DEU, UTR, Zeiss-Jena, van Heurck Coll., etc. | Antoni van Leeuwenhoek; made the first simple microscope for his own research, of which nine are known to still exist, including one in the van Heurck Coll. housed at the Antwerp Zoo. | Delft. | Rooseboom 1 & 2; van der Star 1; Dewhirst; Bradbury; Nachet; Daumas 1; G.L'E. Turner 10, 14 and 23; Clay and Court; A.J. Turner 10; J. van Zuylen; Darius 4. |
| LEFEBIERE | France, 1745, MIM NIM SIM | Telescope on Graphometer, 1745 = NMM-Si/G.14. | Etienne-Jean Lefebvre? | au Grand Turc, Paris. | NMM 2. |
| LEFEBRISE | France, c.1814, MIM | misreading for Lefèvre on planisphere at CNAM. | Grimaldi(987). | ||
| LEFEBURE | alternate spelling for Lefebvre and Lefèvre. | Daumas 1. | |||
| LEFEBURE, J. | France, MIM SIM | Surveying Level = Christie 12/18/74. | RSW. | ||
| LEFEBVRE ET POULAIN | France, NIM | Protractors, marine = Versailles 11/20/83 (2). | Or LEFEBVRE ET POULIN, as suggested. | RSW; WEBDB. | |
| LEFEBVRE, ETIENNE-JEAN | France, d.1753, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Equatorial Sundials = NMM-D.78 and 89, WRAY, CNAM; Butterfield-type Sundials, silver = PEA, PRIN, Soth. 10/19/64; Marine Compass with alidade and level = VNN; Levels = CNAM, P.C.; Magnifier for graphometer, 1745 = NMM; etc. | perhaps son of Jean Lefèvre; sometimes signed "Lefèvre" or "Lefebure." | au Grand Turc (1745); rue de la Grande-Truanderie (1753); both in Paris. | Daumas 1; Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; Michel 1 and 3; Hamilton 1; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. |
| LEFEBVRE, J. | France, MIM | Level = Melun 6/10/79. | RSW. | ||
| LEFEVER, CHARLES | England, fl.1829-58, MIM PHIM | apprenticed to Thomas Lefever in the Merchant Taylors' Company; free of the Company. | 14 Duncan Place, Hackney, London. | Taylor 2(1620); Crawforth 7. | |
| LEFEVER, GEORGE | England, c.1823, PHIM | made barometers and watches; silversmith; jeweler. | Market Place, Wisbech. | Bell 2. | |
| LEFEVER, THOMAS | England, c.1824, MIM PHIM | apprenticed to Thomas Ventom in the Merchant Taylors' Company; free of the Company; took apprentices. | 1 College Place, Highbury Vale, London. | Taylor 2(1621); O'Mara; Crawforth 7. | |
| LEFEVRE, J. | France, 1798, MIM | Garden Sundial, slate, 1798 = LIE. | J. Lefèvre. | Michel 9. | |
| LEFEVRE, JEAN | France, 1650-1706, MIM OIM | Terrestrial and Celestial Planispheres, wood and paper = CNAM; Quadrant, 1702 = Marseilles Observatory; Level with two Telescopes = CNAM; Level= Peron et Corsy, Melun 6/10/79; Inkstand, travelling = Soth. 1/27/48. | Lefèvre; invented a micrometer, 1705; made instruments for the Académie des Sciences including 2 micrometers, a microscope, etc.; inkstand is probably part of an etui, it has the address on it. | au deux Globes, Paris. | Daumas 1; Michel 3; Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; Evans 1; RSW. |
| LEFFLER, M. | Sweden, NIM | Compass Rose, paper = GMM. | Göteborg. | RSW. | |
| LEFRANC, ANDRE | France, 1652, PHIM | Set of Weights, 1652 = CNAM. | André Lefranc. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4. | |
| LEFRANCOIS, A. | France, c.1850, MIM | Cannon Sundial = Soth. 1969 = ADL-N35. | "Maison Vantier et Marc Ingénieurs-Opticiens, A. Lefrançois successeur." | 174 Galerie de Valois, Palais Royal, Paris. | ADL; RSW. |
| LEGA, GERARD PETRUS RUDOLPHUS | Holland, 1773-1845, NIM | worked with his father, Ignatius Lega. | Rotterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | |
| LEGA, IGNATIUS | Holland, 1737-97, NIM | Compass, 1787 = AMST; Crown Compasses = AMST (1778), Christie 6/7/72. | father of Gerard Petrus Rudolphus Lega; the 1787 compass is also marked "A.K." (4). | Rotterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 and 2; RSW. |
| LEGA, IGNATIUS AND GERARD PETRUS R. | Holland, c.1799, NIM | Crown Compass, 1799 = AMST | Ignatius Lega and his son, Gerard Petrus Rudolphus Lega; the compass is also marked "A.K." (4). | Rotterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2. |
| LEGEY | France, pre-1833, MIM NIM | Mathematical Instruments = CNAM; Marine Compass = CNAM; Rules = CNAM; Folding Square = ADL-W135. | Paris. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; ADL; RSW. | |
| LEGGET, DAVID | England, fl.1832-34, MIM PHIM | 35 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London. | Taylor 2(1622); O'Mara. | ||
| LEGRAND | France, c.1725, MIM | Graphometer = ADL-A141; Butterfield-type Sundial = P.C. | Paris. | ADL; RSW. | |
| LEGRAND, C. | France, 18th Century, OIM | Microscope = X. | Douai. | Nachet. | |
| LEGRIS | France, c.1840, NIM | Octant, ebony and ivory = La Rochelle 7/16/83; Marine Compass = OMM. | "opticien." | Le Havre. | RSW. |
| LEGROS | France, pre-1814, MIM | Terrestrial Globe = CNAM. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4. | ||
| LEGRY | France, MIM | Hygrometer = Drouot 3/9/70. | Le Havre. | RSW. | |
| LEGUIN, STEPHEN | England, c.1790, | designed a longitude-finding instrument and a new log. | Taylor 2(1004). | ||
| LEHEUX, R. | misreading for Lekeux. | Christie 7/28/70. | |||
| LEHMANN | Germany, c.1742, MIM | Hodometer = DRE. | worked for Reichsgraf Hans Löser. | Reinharz. | Zinner 1; Drechsler 2; Chaldecott 4. |
| LEHMANN, BURKART | Germany, 1615, MIM | Instrument, 1615 = DEU-5140. | Price 2. | ||
| LEHNBERG, CARL | Sweden, fl.1725-68, OIM | Achromatic Telescope, 1760 = SWE. | optical instrument maker to the Royal Swedish Academy of Science from 1756 to 1768; made the first achromatic telescope in Sweden, 1760; made a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1756. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1; RSW. |
| LEHNER, ANDREAS | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Horizontal Sundial = BEK. | Munich. | Zinner 1. | |
| LEHNER, THOMAS | Germany, 1747, MIM | Horary Quadrant, wood, 1747 = DEU; Diptych Sundial, wood = Drecker Collection = P.C. | the diptych dial is for 48°. | Geiselhöring. | Zinner 1; RSW. |
| LEHR, FERDINAND | USA, fl.1852-54, MIM NIM PHIM | New York, N.Y. | USNM. | ||
| LEIBNITZ, GOTTFRIED | Germany, 1646-1716, | greatly improved the calculating machine by a new method of multiplying, 1671-94; invented a small lens; author; had the idea of the aneroid barometer. | Frankfort. | Nachet; Von Mackensen 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; Middleton 1. | |
| LEIGH, SAMUEL | England, c.1830, | Urania's Mirror = ADL, Soth. 10/3/88, etc. | sets of constellation cards pierced to show star locations. | 18 Strand, London. | Sperling; ADL; RSW. |
| LEITNER, JACOB SIGMUND | Germany, c.1775, MIM SIM | Graphometer = NUR. | Nürnberg. | RSW. | |
| LEITZ, E. | Germany, c.1893, OIM PHIM | Microscopes, etc. | Wetzlar. | RSW. | |
| LEJARD ET CIE. | France, c.1850, MIM | Slide Rule = D.(1972). | La Maison Richer, L'Hermite, Paris. | Moskowitz 103. | |
| LEKEUX, RICHARD | England, fl.1777-1838, MIM NIM OIM | Octants = MAN (1784), GEP (1787), X, DNM, PEA, PMS, OMM, Glasgow Museums and Art Gallery/ Larvik Marine Museum, Norway/ Museo Navale, Madrid, D.(1997), etc.; Sextant = AVI; Telescope = Christie 7/28/70; Hadley's Quadrant = P.C. (1987). | apprenticed to Thomas Ripley 1 of the Grocers' Company, 1770; turned over to Walton Willcox, member of the Joiners' Company, 1775; free of the Grocers' 1777 and Fishmongers' Companies; took apprentices; octant at X is signed "R.L." | No.137 near Execution Dock, Wapping (1787-88); 137 Hermitage Bridge, Wapping; 138 Wapping High Street; 103 Wapping near Execution Dock; No. 168 near King Edward Stairs, Wapping; 13 High Street (1826); all in London. | Taylor 2(862); Garcia 1; Bryden 9; Brewington 1; USNM; Moskowitz 107; Crawforth 7; Coffeen 58; RSW. |
| LELLI, J. | England, PHIM | Thermometer = Pym Sale. | Portsea Town. | RSW. | |
| LELLI, S. 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Chichester. | Goodison 1. | |
| LELLI, S. 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Phillips 8/12/87. | Newport, Isle of Wight. | RSW. | |
| LELUBOIS, J. | France, c.1850, MIM | invented an accountant's slide rule; example at OXF. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | ||
| LEMAINDRE, N. | France, MIM | Equatorial Sundials, silver = MERC, P.C., P-B 1/22/54. | Blois. | Hamilton 1; USNM; RSW. | |
| LEMAIRE | see Le Maire. | ||||
| LEMAIRE, NICHOLAS | France, c.1730, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial = Soth. 4/18/88. | probably N. Le Maire, which see. | Paris. | RSW. |
| LEMARDELEY | France, 1846-, OIM | microscope maker. | 127 rue de la Glacière, Paris. | USNM. | |
| LEMBKE | see Gall and Lembke. | ||||
| LEMIERE | France, 19th Century, OIM | Lorgnette Glass = Soth. 5/27/25; Telescope = Christie-SK 9/11/86; Monocular = Christie-SK 4/17/86. | Palais Royal No. 6, Paris. | RSW. | |
| LENAERTS, T.B. | France, 1770, MIM | Sundial, 1770 = Evans Coll. | Malines. | Evans 1. | |
| LENEL | misreading for Lennel. | ||||
| LENELIN, M. | 1729, MIM | Quadrant, 1729 = Soth. 1973. | five-inch radius. | RSW. | |
| LENELL | misreading for Lennel. | Cons. Nat'l 1. | |||
| LENFESTEY | England, c.1800, | see Le Lacheur and Lenfestey. | Guernsey. | RSW. | |
| LENNEL | France, fl.1774-84, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Graphometers = D.(1988) (1775), PNM (1781), CNAM, D.(1774), OMM (1774), CZO (1778), VCW (1776), P.C. (1987) (1775), RSM (1774), Chayette 6/28/86 (1778); Meridian Telescope, 1774 = POB; Marine Compass = PNM; Water Levels = D.(1974) (1774), P.C. (1987) (1775, 1776); Mathematical Instrument Set = CNAM; Sector = USNM; Rule, folding, 1774 = CNAM; Surveyor's Compass = WHI; Telescopic Quadrant = CNAM. | "Elève et successeur de Me. Canivet à la Sphère"; "Ingénieur du Roi et de la Marine"; succeeded by his widow. | A la Sphère, Quai de l'Ecole entre le café de Parnasse et la Miroitier, Paris. | Daumas 1; Destombes 4; Cons. Nat'l 1; Nachet; Wynter and Turner; Courtanvaux; USNM; Evans 1; Wynter 1; MADEX; O. Brown 1; J.A. Bennett 2; A.J. Turner 10; Coffeen 20; RSW. |
| LENNEL, VEUVE | France, c.1784, MIM SIM | Surveying Level = Phillips 2/2/84; Alidade, box = D.(1976); Set of Drawing Instruments = Koller May, 1972. | succeeded her husband; level also marked "Département de Figeac." | Paris. | Daumas 1; RSW. |
| LENNEP | Germany?, fl.1780-90, PHIM | Balances = DRE (1780), (1790), (undated). | RSW. | ||
| LENNEP, ELIAS A | Germany, fl.1663-94, MIM | Astrolabe = Linz Staatsgymnasium (ICA-608). | signed "Elias a Lennep Math. Cultor me fe."; mathematician. | Lennep. | Zinner 1; Price 1; ICA 2. |
| LENNEP, HEINRICH VAN | Germany, fl.1667-1710, MIM NIM | Mariner's Compass, 1667 = X; Celestial Globe, 1693 = KAS. | decorated Diepel's celestial globe in 1683; finished celestial globe that was started by Burgi in 1585; see H.L. 2. | Kassel. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; Bryden 16. |
| LENNEP, JOHANN HARTMANN | Germany, 1685-1753, MIM | "mechaniker." | Kassel. | Baillie 1. | |
| LENNIE | Scotland, c.1850, MIM OIM PHIM | Barometer = Christie-SK 11/27/86; Aneroid Barometer = Christie-SK 4/17/86; Cross-staff = FRK = RSM; Microscopes = FRK = RSM, D.(1872); Telescopes = FRK = RSM (6). | Edinburgh. | Morrison-Low 1; Moskowitz 105; RSW. | |
| LENNIE AND CO. | England, OIM | Microscope, case = D.(1975). | 62 Church Street, Liverpool. | RSW. | |
| LENNIE, E. | Scotland, c.1850, PHIM | Stick Barometers = RSM, Soth.-West Sussex 6/21/83. | Edinburgh. | Goodison 1; RSW. | |
| LENNIE, JAMES | Scotland, fl.1830-80, OIM | Microscopes = Soth. 12/8/69, 5/21/73, 12/10/73. | optician. | 46 Princes Street, Edinburgh. | RSW. |
| LENOIR 1 | France, c.1830, MIM NIM OIM SIM | made cicumferentors, graphometers, Borda circles, meter rods of steel, magnetic compasses, levels, rules, inclinometers, sectors, etc. which can be seen at many museums including ADL, CNAM, VCW, DRE, POB, COO, RSM, SWE, NOR, WHI, etc. | can be either Etienne or Paul Etienne Lenoir; T.C. | au dépot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, Rue ci-devant Louis Le Grand, Paris. | Daumas 1; Portuguese Inv.; Trois Siècles; Grötzsch 2; Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; O. Brown 1; Coffeen 15; Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. |
| LENOIR 2 | France, | see "Schwartz dit Lenoir." | Nachet; RSW. | ||
| LENOIR 3 | France, | Aneroid Barometer = D.(1972). | modern work; "opticien." | rue des Tournelles, Paris. | RSW. |
| LENOIR FILS | see Paul Etienne Lenoir. | ||||
| LENOIR, ETIENNE | France, 1744-1832, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Measure = CNAM; Borda Circles = ADL-DPW33, CNAM, PNM, LEY, KEN, STT, USNM; Graphometers = MADEX, etc.; Sextants = KRA, WHI; Protractor with arm = P.C.; Surveying Cross = P.C.; Transit = D.(1986); Slide Rules = D.(1990), P.C., WHI. | made a dividing engine, c.1783; claimed to have invented the repeating circle; "Ingénieur du Roi pour les instruments à l'usage des sciences"; T.C.; optician. | rue de la Pelleterie (1785); No. 1, rue Basse-des-Ursins (1792); rue Cassette, 14 (post-1792); 301 rue Saint-Honoré (1810); Rue de la Place Vendôme, Hôtel du Dépot, Galerie de la Marine; au Petit Bénéfice, Quai de l'Horloge-du-Palais, No. 59 (1830); all in Paris; some his son's? | Daumas 1; Calvert 2; Wynter 1; Pipping 1; Michel 3; Nachet; USNM; RSW; J.A. Bennett 2; Delehar 9; ADL; RSW. |
| LENOIR, PAUL ETIENNE | France, 1776-1827, MIM OIM | son of Etienne Lenoir; made astronomical instruments; fl. 1810-27. | Paris; some listed in his father's entry may have been his. | Daumas 1; Nachet; J.A. Bennett. | |
| LENOIT | misreading for Lenoir. | ||||
| LENONE | misreading of Zenone or Zenon. | Goodison 1; Morrison-Low 1. | |||
| LENT, D.E. | USA, c.1815, PHIM | Stick Barometer = D. | Rochester, N.Y. | RSW. | |
| LENTON, JOHN | England, c.1830, OIM | 14 Waingate, Sheffield. | Taylor 2(1916). | ||
| LENVIE | France, c.1810, PHIM | Barometer = Società Torricelliana, Faenza. | Paris. | Middleton 1. | |
| LENVIRE | France, c.1789, MIM | "Ingénieur." | Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. | ||
| LEO DE BALNEOLIS | see Levi ben Gerson. | A.J. Turner 10. | |||
| LEONAE, AMERIGO | Italy, 1589, MIM | Nocturnal with Rojas Astrolabe, 1589 = NMM-N.17. | Rome. | NMM 2. | |
| LEONE | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Exeter. | Goodison 1. | |
| LEONE, JOHN | England, c.1830?, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X (3), Soth 12/15/83. | see J. Lione 2. | Aylesbury. | Goodison 1; RSW. |
| LEONI | sometimes a variant spelling of Leone. | Bell 2. | |||
| LEONI, F. | England, c.1780, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, Soth. 1/19/73. | Andover. | Goodison 1; RSW. | |
| LEONI, G. | USA, fl.1837-46, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = D.(1971). | "Manufacturer and importer of mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments. glass-blowing in all its branches, barometers and thermometers." | New York, N.Y. | USNM; Moskowitz 102. |
| LEORA, P., AND CO. | England, PHIM | barometer makers. | Church Street, Sheffield. | Bell 2. | |
| LEPAUTE | France, c.1780, PHIM | Barometer = Soth. 12/13/74. | RSW. | ||
| LEPAUTE, HENRI | France, c.1849, OIM | Fresnel Lenses = Sankaty Light, Nantucket, Mass., Cape Hatteras | Sankaty Light now in the Nantucket Whaling Museum. | Paris. | Warner 13; RSW. |
| LEPAUTE, JACQUES JOSEPH | France, 1779-c.1830, MIM | Planetarium Clock = Christie 3/28/73. | Jacques Joseph Lepaute de Belle Fontaine. | Paris. | RSW. |
| LEPELTIER | France, NIM | Mariner's Compass = D.(1973). | St. Malo. | RSW. | |
| LEPERE, GEORGE | France, 1744, OIM | Telescope, 1744 = ADL-M442. | George Lepère. | Quai de l'horloge du Palais, Paris. | RSW. |
| LEPETIT | France, NIM | Sextant = Melun 4/24/83. | signed "Lorieux, Le Petit Suc." | Paris. | RSW. |
| LEPETIT, A. | France, 19th Century, MIM SIM | Theodolite = Christie 12/18/74. | successor of A. Berthélémy. | Paris. | RSW. |
| LEPETIT, ETS. | France, NIM | Circle and Sextant = Drouot 6/8/70. | RSW. | ||
| LEPETTI | France, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial, oval, silver = NOR. | Paris. | RSW. | |
| LEPINE | France, c.1725, MIM | Multiplying Machine = USNM. | Lépine; devised this type in 1725. | A.J. Turner 10. | |
| LEPINE, JEAN | France, c.1710, MIM | Calculating Machines = CNAM, Conti Coll. = COR; Astronomical Clock = Buckingham Palace. | Jean Lépine. | Paris. | Baillie 1; Grimaldi. |
| LEPRIEUR | France, | see Derrien et LePrieur. | RSW. | ||
| LERBONI AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | |
| LEREBOURS ET SECRETAN | France, 1845-55, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Holland Circle = DNM; Telescope = GEL; Microscopes = LEY, Ineichen 6/5/75, D.(1972), Cranbrook Institute of Science Michigan, Peron et Corsy, Melun 6/10/79; Level = CNAM; Pantograph = COO; Resonance apparatus = TEY. | Noël-Marie-Paymal Lerebours and Marc Secretan. | 13 Place du Pont-Neuf, Paris. | Daumas 1; Destombes 4; Cons. Nat'l 1; van der Star 1; USNM; Wynter and Turner; G.L'E. Turner 7 & 24; Moskowitz; Portuguese Inventory; RSW. |
| LEREBOURS ET SECRETAN, MAISON | France, post-1855, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Auguste and Georges Secretan, cousins; TC.; "Maison Lerebours et Secretan / Secretan Successeur." | Paris. | Moskowitz 122; Warner 13. | |
| LEREBOURS, M.M. | France, c.1847, OIM | opticians to the Royal Observatory of Paris; sale of their work in London by Bullocks, 8/13/1847. | Paris. | Chaldecott 3; RGO. | |
| LEREBOURS, NOEL-JEAN | France, 1761-1840, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Sectors = CNAM, P.C. (1987); Telescopes = POB, CZJ (1810), Wesleyan U. (1835), USMA (1840), CNAM, La Rochelle 7/16/83, Soth. 12/13/65, ; Piezometer = USNM; Graphometers = USNM, Christie-NY 10/24/83, D.(1968); Horizontal Sundial = Versailles 11/20/83; Alidade = KRA; Rule = P.C. (1987); Standard Meter = D.(1991); etc. | appointed engineer to the king, 1789; "Opticien de l'Observatoire Royale et de la Marine et du Bureau des Longitudes"; succeeded by his son, Noël-Marie-Paymal Lerebours; worked under Louvel until 1789. | au Cloître Saint-Benoît; 69 Quai de l'Horloge (1789-93); Place de Pont-Neuf; all in Paris. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; Daumas 1; Nachet; USNM; Moskowitz 122; Michel 3; Coffeen 35; Warner 13; RSW. |
| LEREBOURS, NOEL-MARIE-PAYMAL | France, 1794-1855, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Surveying Instrument = D; Thermometer = Soth. 10/16/86. | son of Noël-Jean Lerebours; succeeded his father in 1840; took Marc Secretan as a partner in 1845. | 13 Place du Pont-Neuf, Paris. | Daumas 1; Nachet; Poggendorff; Moskowitz 103; Warner 13; RSW. |
| LERGET, C. | misreading for Clerget. | RSW. | |||
| LERIEUX | misreading for Lorieux. | ||||
| LEROUX | France, c.1850, NIM | Octants = Randier, P.C. (1971). | St. Malo. | Randier; RSW. | |
| LEROY | see Le Roy. | ||||
| LERRA, CARL ANDREAS | Denmark, 1786-1871, MIM | son of Johannes F.A. Lerra. | Copenhagen. | RSW. | |
| LERRA, JOHANNES FRANCESCO ANTONIO | Denmark, b.1735, PHIM | Stick Barometers = OMM, Den Gamle By, Aarhus; Wheel Barometer = Den Gamle By, Aarhus; Thermometer, 1789 = OMM. | instrument maker to King Fredrick V, 1761; father of Carl Andreas Lerra; see Ruspinus. | Copenhagen. | RSW. |
| LERRA, P. | England, c.1800, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie 4/28/89. | Leeds. | RSW. | |
| LERRA, P., AND CO. | England, c.1800, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X; Barometer = Christie 1/15/70. | Sheffield. | Goodison 1; RSW. | |
| LERUDE | France, | Barometer, 1743 = D.(1972). | "Opticien"; modern work. | rue St. Louis en l'ile, Paris. | RSW. |
| LESEL, ALBRECHT | see Lösel. | Michel 3; Gouk 1; Zinner 1; Körber 1. | |||
| LESEL, MICHAEL | Germany, b.1591 fl.1612-29, MIM | Diptych Sundials, ivory = NMM-D.299 (1612), STU (1613), Breslau Schles. Museum für Kunstgewerbe (1624), OXF (1629), Konstanz Rosgarten Museum (1629), GRA (1629), BM (1629), LOS, Pannett Park Museum, Whitby, ADL-N22, etc. | his mother was first married to Caspar Karner, and then to Albrecht Lösel, which see; mastermark is a crown. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Baillie 1; Thielmann; NMM 2; USNM; Price 3; Ward 4; Michel 3; Gouk 1; ADL; RSW. |
| LESIEUR | France, 1818, MIM | Calendar Clock, 1818 = D.(1976). | Paris. | RSW. | |
| LESLIE, JOHN | Scotland, 1766-1832, PHIM | Hygrometer and Differential Thermometer, Photometer = Royal Observatory of Scotland Sale, 6/19/1848. | Sir John Leslie; invented barometric scale to compute heights of mountains; invented the differential thermometer; F.R.S.; author; Professor of Mathematics, Edinburgh U., 1805-; instruments have platina scales. | Edinburgh. | Middleton 4; Taylor 2(863); USNM; G.L'E. Turner 24; Gunther 2; Chaldecott 3; RGO; RSW. |
| LESLIE, ROBERT | USA, 1793, NIM | Navigating Instrument, 1793 = X. | Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM; RSW. | |
| LESNE | France, c.1810, OIM | optician and lens maker; see Boucher et Lesné. | Paris. | Nachet. | |
| LESPINASSE, DE | France, c.1780, MIM PHIM | Meridian Sundial on clock = Wallace Coll.; Barometer = Wallace Coll. | Paris. | Baillie 1; Britten. | |
| LESTANG | see Etang. | ||||
| LESUEUR | France, 18th Century, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundials, oval, silver = LIE, KEN. | Gisors. | Michel 3. | |
| LETELLIER | France, fl.1769-77+, OIM | Microscope = CNAM. | engineer and optician; associated with Dellebarre, 1777. | rue Saint-Jacques, près Saint-Yves (1777); au Microscope, quay des Augustins, vis-à-vis le Pont-Neuf (later); both in Paris. | Daumas 1; Nachet. |
| LETH, H. DE | Holland, pre-1760, MIM | Planetarium = Clifford Coll.(1760). | Rooseboom 1. | ||
| LETTER, J.B. | Switzerland, c.1730, MIM | Table Clock = ADL-M388. | Zug. | Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | |
| LETTI AND CO. | England, c.1790, PHIM | Barometer = Soth. 10/2/70. | Leeds. | RSW. | |
| LETZEN, B. DE | Germany, MIM | Magnetic Azimuth Sundial, circular = TIM. | RSW. | ||
| LEUNEUX | France, 18th Century, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial = Christie-NY 4/3/85. | Versailles. | RSW. | |
| LEUPOLD, JACOB | Germany, 1674-1727, MIM PHIM SIM | Air Pump, 1709 = DRE; Water Levels = KAS. | author; most work dated 1699-1709; mechanic; Saxon Commissioner of Works and Mining, 1701-25; made a walking-stick barometer. | Leipzig. | Grötzsch 2; Michel 3; Dawson 21 (1971); Middleton 1; RSW. |
| LEUTMANN, JOHANN GEORG | Germany, fl.1725-1757, MIM OIM PHIM | clergyman; improved the pivot for weather vanes; designed a simple microscope; developed several variant barometers. | Dabrun. | Nachet; Middleton 1 and 4; Evans 1. | |
| LEUTPOLD, JACOB | see Leupold. | Crommelin 1. | |||
| LEVASSEUR | France, MIM OIM PHIM | T.C. | rue Grand Pont, No. 5, ci-devant la Rue Beau Voisine, Rouen. | RSW. | |
| LEVASSEUR, E. | France, MIM | Terrestrial Globe = CNAM. | RSW. | ||
| LEVER, STEPHEN | England, fl.1675-77, MIM | master craftsman; made instruments. | Duck Lane, London. | Taylor 1(384). | |
| LEVERTON | England, post-1776, NIM | Hadley's Quadrants = HAM, Stadt Museum Abenrå, Denmark. | one of them marked "Hans Hinrich Koch", surely owner; O'Mara thought he was probably John L. Leverton of Liverpool. | O'Mara; RSW. | |
| LEVERTON, JOHN L. | England, fl.1766-83, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Hadley's Quadrants = NMM (1777), FIN (1783); Stick Barometer = X.; Cuff-type Microscope = Phillips 5/14/74. | see Leverton; the NMM quadrant was made for Peter Richards, the one at FIN for William Tyler; most of the instruments are signed "Leverton." | Water Street (1766-69); Pool Lane (1772); 30 Pool Street (1774); all in Liverpool. | Taylor 2(742); Goodison 1; O'Mara; Bryden 9; NMM 2; RSW. |
| LEVEY, J. | Ireland, fl.1833-35, OIM | optician and jeweler. | 39 Mary Street, Dublin. | Bryden 9; Morrison-Low and Burnett. | |
| LEVI BEN GERSON | Spain; France, 1288-1344, | astronomer and mathematician; invented the Jacob or cross-staff, the transvesal scale for subdividing angles and the camera obscura; author. | Catalonia; Bagnols; Perpignan. | B. Goldstein 1, 2, 3 and 4; DSB; Daumas 1; Michel 2; A.J. Turner 10. | |
| LEVI, ISAIAH | England, fl.1822-41, PHIM | watch and clockmaker; see J. Levy. | Lord Street (1822-35); Silver Street (1841); both in Gainesborough. | Goodison 1. | |
| LEVI, JACOB | England, c.1775, OIM | spectacle maker. | 14 Temple Street, Bristol. | Bryden 9. | |
| LEVI, MOSES | England, fl.1839-46?, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X (2), Christie-SK 10/20/89. | may be Moses Levy. | Ipswich. | Goodison 1; Bell 2; RSW. |
| LEVI, SAMUEL | England?, pre-1782, | invented a calculating machine. | Courtanvaux. | ||
| LEVIL, P. | England, OIM | Telescope, three-draw = Christie-SK 10/6/83. | George Yard, Lombard Street, London. | RSW. | |
| LEVIN | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, Soth. 7/3/70, Christie 6/30/89; Marine Barometers = X, Christie 6/30/89, etc. | wheel barometer from Christie is signed "Leven Penzance." | Penzance. | Goodison 1; RSW. |
| LEVIN, M. AND E. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X (2). | London. | Goodison 1. | |
| LEVIN, P. | France, 17th Century, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, silver = Bernard Coll. = NMM-Caird. | probably P. Sevin. | Paris. | NMM 2; RSW. |
| LEVITT | England, fl.1816-42, PHIM | partner with Morris Tobias as Tobias and Levitt, which see. | 31 Minories, London. | Goodison 1. | |
| LEVY, H. AND L. | England, fl.1793-94, OIM | opticians. | Temple Street, Bristol. | Bryden 9. | |
| LEVY, J. | PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | variant spelling for Isaiah Levi? | Gainesborough. | Goodison 1. |
| LEVY, MOSES | variant spelling for Moses Levi? | Goodison 1; Bell 2. | |||
| LEWELIN, M. | England?, 1729, MIM | Quadrant, 1729 = Soth. 12/10/73. | also marked "M.L." and "T.J." 1. | RSW. | |
| LEWENBERG, LEON | USA, pre-1839, OIM | Telescope = X. | New York, N.Y. | USNM. | |
| LEWER, JAMES | England, | T.C.; may have only sold instruments. | at ye Elephant and Rising Sun, five doors from Friday Street in Cheapside, London. | Crawforth 1. | |
| LEWIS | England, PHIM | barometer maker. | Poole. | Bell 2. | |
| LEWIS AND BRIGGS | England, c.1766, MIM | Slide Rule = USNM. | made gauging instruments. | 52 Bow Line, Cheapside, London. | Taylor 2(623); USNM. |
| LEWIS AND ROSS | England, c.1820, MIM PHIM | 96 Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London. | Taylor 2(1624). | ||
| LEWIS, ELLIS | USA, c.1858, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = D.(1982). | "clock and mathematical instrument maker." | Rockingham County, Va. | Coffeen B. |
| LEWIS, JOHANNES | Ireland, MIM | Compass Sundial = P.C. (1988). | John Lewis 2. | Dublin. | RSW. |
| LEWIS, JOHN 1 | England, d.1621, NIM | compass maker. | St. Katherine's, the Tower, London. | Taylor 1(102); RSW. | |
| LEWIS, JOHN 2 | Ireland, fl.1679-88, MIM SIM | Sundial, 1684 = Christie 10/12/65; Circumferentor, 1688 = Maynooth College; Garden Sundial = D.(1966); Compass Sundial = P.C. (1988). | the Christie sundial is signed "Johans Lewis Dublin fecit 1684"; the sundial in the private collection is signed "Johannes Lewis Dublin." | Dublin. | Morrison-Low and Burnett; RSW. |
| LEWIS, W. | England, c.1727, | made metal tubes for telescopes. | 2 Rose Street, Covent Garden, London. | Taylor 2(192). | |
| LEY, JOHN | England, c.1707, MIM | apprenticed to John Randall of the Grocers' Company on Dec.9,1707. | J. Brown 1. | ||
| LEYBOURN, WILLIAM | England, 1626-1716, MIM | wrote many books on dialing and surveying; made garden sundials "both fixed and movable." | Monkswell Street, Cripplegate, London (c.1645); on the road between Acton and Uxbridge, Southhall, 3 miles from Brainford. | Taylor 1(222); G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | |
| LEYDEKKENS, C. | Holland, fl.1845-47, NIM PHIM | Magnet, horseshoe = LEY. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | ||
| LHEUREUX | France, c.1750, MIM | Garden Sundial = Koller, May, 1972. | L'Heureux?; the dial is also marked "L.M." (5). | RSW. | |
| LIAIS, EMMANUEL | France, c.1850, PHIM | invented an azimuth instrument made by Jose Maria dos Reis, which see; author; made barometers. | Middleton 1; RSW. | ||
| LIBAERTS, ELISEUS | Belgium, fl.1562-64, MIM | Celestial Globe = Historisches Museum, Dresden. | on Christian II horse armor. | Antwerp. | RSW. |
| LIBERATUS, FR. KARL | Germany, 1766, MIM | Universal Equatorial Sundial, 1766 = OXF(?). | Augsburg; Baden. | Evans 1. | |
| LIBHER | Germany, c.1850, MIM | Magnetic Compass = Christie 12/18/74. | Munich. | RSW. | |
| LIBRERIA ESCOLAR CARBONELL Y ESTERA | Spain, c.1850, MIM | Armillary Sphere = Neumarkt 6/1/72. | the Carbonell and Estera School Library? | RSW. | |
| LIDDELL, DUNCAN | Scotland, fl.1634-37, | may have designed a staff for gauging and surveying. | Aberdeen. | Taylor 1(179). | |
| LIDDELL, J.J. | Scotland, fl.1840-58, MIM OIM PHIM | made levels; exhibited in the Great Exhbition, London, 1851. | 3 Hanover Street (1843-57); 91 South Bridge (1858); both in Edinburgh. | Bryden 3. | |
| LIDDLE, WILLIAM | Scotland, fl.1819-33, MIM OIM PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | successor to Finney and Liddle, Joseph Finney 2; clockmaker; the barometer is signed "William Liddell Edinburgh." | 3 North Bank Street, Edinburgh. | Bryden 3; Goodison 1; Baillie 1. |
| LIEBERKUHN, JOHANN NATHANIEL | Germany England, 1719-69, OIM | Telescope, 1755 = DRE. | Lieberkühn; doctor; developed a type of simple microscope also a solar microscope with Fahrenheit which was introduced into England in 1740. | London (1740). | Daumas 1; Clay and Court; Nachet; Evans 1; Dewhirst; RSW; A.J. Turner 10. |
| LIEBFRIED, CHRISTOPHER | Germany, 1596, | designed an astronomical compendium in 1596; Lynden made it in 1598. | Würzburg. | Zinner 1; Price 3; Ward 4; RSW. | |
| LIEBHERR, JOSEPH | Germany, 1767-1840, MIM OIM | see Utzschneider und Liebherr; Reichenbach, Utzschneider und Liebherr. | Immenstadt; Munich. | Baillie 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. | |
| LIEBHERR, VET | Germany, c.1800, PHIM | Barometer = DEU. | Landshut. | Middleton 1. | |
| LIEBISCH, F.A. | Germany, 1820, MIM OIM SIM | Theodolite, 1820 = DRE; Telescope = DRE. | Dresden. | Grötzsch 2; Drechsler 2; RSW. | |
| LIEBLICH | Germany, OIM | Telescope on stand = KRA. | Dresden. | RSW. | |
| LIEFRING, B. | 1795, NIM | Octant, 1795 = WHI. | RSW. | ||
| LIERA, FABIO | Italy, c.1625, MIM | made precision instruments; pupil of Simone Barocci. | Urbino. | Morpurgo 1. | |
| LIFORD, JOHN | England, post-1740, MIM OIM | T.C. in telescope box. | at Euclid's Head opposite the New Church in the Strand, London. | NMM 2. | |
| LIGEON | France, 18th Century, | possibly a misreading of Pigeon. | Paris. | Michel 1 & 3; | |
| LIGEON, ARON | France, 18th Century, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundials = LOU, P-B 1/31/53. | misreading for Pigeon? | Michel 1 & 3; RSW. | |
| LIGHTFOOT, PETER | England, c.1335, MIM | sundial maker. | Glastonbury. | Baillie 1. | |
| LIGNAMINE, CHRISTOPHORUS | Italy, 1799, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, wood, 1799 = OXF. | the initial "L" is part of a complicated logo. | Rome. | RSW. |
| LILBERRAD | misreading for Silberrad. | RSW. | |||
| LILIENFELD, NIKOLAUS | Sweden?, 1499, MIM | Astrolabe Clock, 1499 = Nicholas Church, Stralsund. | Stralsund. | Zinner 1. | |
| LILJEMARK, CARL PETTER | Sweden, c.1760, MIM | apprenticed to J.Z. Steinholtz, 1760. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1. | |
| LILLE, MARTIN | England, c.1669, | apprenticed to Walter Hayes of the Grocers' Company on May 6, 1669. | J. Brown 1. | ||
| LILLEY AND REYNOLDS LTD | England, 1880-, MIM NIM | firm of John Lilley and Son(s) merged with William Reynolds in 1880. | London. | Brewington 1. | |
| LILLEY AND SON | England, fl.1835-75+, MIM NIM PHIM | Patent Course Indicator = LIM; Octant = D.(1974); Sextants = WHI, Soth. 4/26/71, D.(1982); Navigating Instrument = Soth. 4/27/72; Anemometer = WHI; Marine Barometer = X; Folding Square = Musée Lombard, Geneva. | John Lilley and son; T.C. of John Lilley in one box where the insrument is signed Lilley and Son; the folding square is signed "Lilley et Fils." | 7 Jamaica Terrace, Limehouse, London. | G.L'E. Turner 24; Goodison 1; Coffeen B; Bennett 1; RSW. |
| LILLEY AND SONS | England, NIM | Sextants = Phillips 5/20/75, D.(1969). | see John Lilley and Sons Ltd. | London. | RSW. |
| LILLEY, JAMES ARCHER | England, c.1801, MIM | a carpenter in the Merchant Taylors' Company; took John Lilley (MIM) as an apprentice on Oct. 7, 1801. | London. | Crawforth 7. | |
| LILLEY, JOHN | England, fl.1811-45, MIM NIM | apprenticed to Michael Dancer in the Joiners' Company on Aug. 25, 1801; re-apprenticed to James Archer Lilley, a carpenter in the Merchant Taylors' Company, Oct. 7, 1801; probably trained by Michael Dancer; free of the Merchant Taylors' Company, Feb. 6, 1811; T.C.; took apprentices; see John Lilley and Son, Lilley and Son, and Lilley and Sons. | Jamaica Terrace, Commercial Road, near the West India Docks, London. | Brewington 1; Crawforth 1, 7 and 8. | |
| LILLEY, JOHN, AND SON | England, fl.1826-75, MIM NIM | Instruments = KEN, WHI, X; Clinometer = D.(1976). | T.C.; see Lilley and Son, Lilley and Sons, John Lilley and Sons Ltd. | 7 Jamaica Terrace (1826-63); Commercial Road, Limehouse and 9 London Street, Fenchurch Street (1868-75); all in London. | Taylor 2(1625); Brewington 1; NMM 2; Calvert 2; USNM; Roux Devilas 66; RSW. |
| LILLEY, JOHN, AND SONS LTD. | England, c.1880, MIM NIM | Marine Compass = X. | London and North Shields. | RSW. | |
| LILLY AND CO. | Scotland, fl.1834-44, PHIM | see S. Lilly 2, Stephen Lilly; made barometers; carvers and gilders. | Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh. | Bell 2. | |
| LILLY AND RIVOLTA | Scotland, fl.1844-45, PHIM | barometer makers; carvers, etc.; probably Stephen Lilly; Rivolta 1. | Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh. | Bell 2. | |
| LILLY, S. 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | ||
| LILLY, S. 2 | Scotland, c.1820, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X (2), Christie-SK 4/17/86. | probably Stephen Lilly. | Edinburgh. | Goodison 1; RSW. |
| LILLY, STEPHEN | Scotland, fl.1812-32, PHIM | looking glass and barometer maker; probably S. Lilly 2. | Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh. | Bell 2. | |
| LILY AND SON | England, post-1837, MIM | "Ecliptic"? instrument with compass = Christie 12/18/74. | London. | RSW. | |
| LIMBACH, F. | England, c.1850, NIM PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie-SK 4/17/86; Sextant, ebony, ivory and brass = Soth. 10/3/88. | Hull. | RSW. | |
| LINCOLN, CHARLES | England, c.1744-1807, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Armillary Sphere = NMM; Stick Barometers = X, Halloway's Auction, Banbury 5/1/90; Microscopes = CZO, P.C. (1869), D.(1975); Telescopes = VCW, Court Coll., Drouot Richelieu 11/28/88; Christie 5/15/73. Soth. 7/29/69, P.C. (1969); Pantograph = D.(1973); Horizontal Sundial = Phillips 7/28/82; Level = Soth. 12/13/65; Cicumferentor = D.(1994). | son of Thomas Lincoln; apprenticed in the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1758; free by Patrimony on April 1, 1762; Master of the Company, 1787-90; took apprentices. | Cornhill near the Poultry (1763); Head of Sir Isaac Newton, 62 Leadenhall Street (1791-1801); both in London. | Taylor 2(624); Goodison 1; Clay and Court; Court and von Rohr 3(171); Dewhirst; Bryden 9; Daumas 1; NMM 2; USNM; Moskowitz 107; Garcelon 33; Gemmary III; RSW. |
| LINCOLN, F.W., JR. AND CO. | USA, fl.1858-83, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Mariner's Compass = X; Transits = HAR, D.(1976); Tell-tale Compass = Eldred 7/26/73; Octant = PMS. | Frederic Walker Lincoln, Jr.; took his apprentice, Charles C. Hutchinson, as a partner; T.C. | at the Sign of Mercury and the Quadrant, 126 Commercial Street, corner of Richmond Street, Boston, Mass. | Bryden 9; Smart 1; Moskowitz; RSW. |
| LINCOLN, FREDERIC WALKER, JR. | USA, 1817-98, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | Transit = GUR; Marine Compass = OMM; Octants and Dry Card Compass = MYS. | grandson of Paul Revere; apprenticed to Gedney King, 1830; flourished 1839-58 alone; took Charles C. Hutchinson, his apprentice, as a partner in 1858; T.C.; most instruments signed "F.W. Lincoln, Jr."; Mayor of Boston; T.C. | 62 Commercial Street (1839-53); at the Sign of Mercury and Quadrant, 136 Commercial Street (1853-58); 126 Commercial Street (1856-58); all in Boston, Mass. | Bedini 8; Smart 1; Brewington 1; Price 2; USNM; Moskowitz; D.J. Warner 10; Garcelon 33; RSW. |
| LINCOLN, FREDERICK | USA, MIM | Magnetic Compass = D.(1965). | probably F.W. Lincoln, Jr. | Boston, Mass. | RSW. |
| LINCOLN, JOSHUA R. | USA, NIM | compassmaker; Thomas Wightman engraved the compass cards. | Warner 12. | ||
| LINCOLN, T. | 1803, MIM SIM | Graphometer, 1803 = P.C. | USNM. | ||
| LINCOLN, THOMAS | England, fl.1716-50, OIM | apprenticed to Matthew Cooberow of the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1709; free of the Company on Oct. 3, 1716; took apprentices; Master of the Company 1746-47. | at St. Bartholomew's the Less (1749); Leadenhall; both in London. | Court and von Rohr 3(87); Robischon. | |
| LIND, DR. | England, pre-1781, PHIM | Barometer = Martin's Sale, 3/8/1781? | probably James Lind. | RSW. | |
| LIND, JAMES | Scotland; England, 1736-1812, PHIM | Anemometer = William Wales (1772); Clinometers = RSM, OXF, UTR. | scientist; F.R.S., 1777; designed a pocket clinometer and an anemometer in 1775. | Edinburgh; Windsor. | Taylor 2(504); Bryden 3; Middleton 4; G.L'E. Turner 24; Clarke et al. |
| LIND, NILS | Sweden, c.1770, MIM | Sundial = STT. | made unusual sundials. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1, pp. 199-200. |
| LINDEN | see Lynden. | Zinner 1; Ward 4; A.J. Turner 10. | |||
| LINDERMAN, HENDRIK | Holland, c.1780, PHIM | Balance, steel = Christie-SK 11/19/87. | Deze Gewigte werden gemaakt on verkogt te Amsterdam. | RSW. | |
| LINDERMAN, JAN | Holland, 1740-1809, PHIM | Coin Balances = D.(1980), Soth. 10/3/88. | Amsterdam. | Wynter 1; RSW. | |
| LINDERMAN, JOANNES | Holland, c.1775, PHIM | Jeweler's Balance = WHI. | op de Beurs en in de Kalverstraat naast de Kerk de Papegay in de Goud Balans, Amsterdam. | O. Brown 2. | |
| LINDERMAN, WILLEM | Holland, c.1811, PHIM | balance maker. | Nieuwendijk by Dam no. 10, Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1. | |
| LINDERSTRUB, GOTTLIEB NIKLAUS | Switzerland, 1803-73, MIM | Instrument, 1840 = BASH. | "mechaniker." | Basel. | RSW. |
| LINDHOLM, C.L. | Sweden, fl.1851-64, MIM | apprenticed in 1836; in business, 1851. | Snickarbacken 5, Stockholm (1864). | Pipping 1. | |
| LINDIG, M. | Germany, c.1800, MIM OIM SIM | Levelling Instrument = DRE; Telescopic Alidade = DRE. | Dresden. | Grötzsch 2. | |
| LINDQUIST, C.A. | Sweden, 1828-1905, MIM PHIM | specialized in laboratory balances. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1. | |
| LINDQUIST, J.W. | Sweden, fl.1830-45, MIM | Malm skillnadsgaten 60, Stockholm. | Pipping 1. | ||
| LINDSAY, GEORGE | England, fl.1728-76, OIM | Microscopes = PYM, WHI (1742), Royal Microscopical Society, P.C., Soth. 7/29/69 and 6/9/80; Telescope = OXF; Microscope, pocket, silver = KEN. | T.C.; invented a type of simple microscope; held the first patent on a portable microscope in 1743; "Watchmaker to His Majesty and the Princess Dowager"; clockmaker to George II; some of the microscopes are marked "Geo: Lindsay Inv. & Fec." | at the Dial, facing the Fountain Tavern, near St. Catherine's Street, in the Strand, London. | Taylor 2(193); Evans 1; Maddison 1; Nachet; Clay and Court; Daumas 1; Bryden 11; A.J. Turner 10; Millburn 8; RSW. |
| LINDSON, J. BERGER | Norway?, fl.1797-1809, MIM | Vertical Sundials = NOR (1797, 1809, undated). | many more unsigned. | RSW. | |
| LINE, FRANCIS | see Francis Hall. | Taylor 1(133). | |||
| LINERIIS, JEAN DE | see John of Lignères. | Michel 3. | |||
| LINGE, IOHAN | Germany?, 1684, MIM | Perpetual Calendar, copper, 1684 = MUN. | RSW. | ||
| LINGER, HANS RUDOLPH DEN | Germany, 1613, MIM | Dividers, 1613 = AMST. | Mörzer Bruyns 1. | ||
| LINGFORD, JOHN | England, fl.1793-1835 ?, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | probably jeweller and ironmonger (fl.1793-1835). | Market Hill (1793-1814); Parliament Street (1835); 5 Milton Street (1835); all in Nottingham. | Goodison 1. |
| LINGKE | Germany, c.1850, MIM PHIM SIM | Assay Kit = P.C. (1970); Theodolite = P.C. (1987). | Freiberg. | RSW. | |
| LINGKE AND CO. | Germany, MIM SIM | Theodolite = Illinois State Museum. | Berlin. | USNM. | |
| LINNELL, GEORGE | England, fl.1769-1804, OIM | probably son of Joseph Linnell 1; free of the Spectaclemakers' Company by Patrimony, Sept. 12, 1769; took apprentices; optician. | Goldsmith Street, St. Gough Square; 14 Cowlane (1804); both in London. | Taylor 2(625); Clay and Court; Court and von Rohr 3(184); Robischon. | |
| LINNELL, JOSEPH 1 | England, fl.1763-75, MIM OIM PHIM | Angle Barometers = X, Christie 5/26/76; Universal Ring Sundial = NMM-D.259. | apprenticed to Robert Linnell of the Spectaclemakers' Company on Oct. 3, 1754; turned over to Avis Sterrop, June 28, 1756; turned over to Mary Sterrop, Oct. 1, 1760; free of the Company on June 30, 1763 (Taylor said apprenticed to James Ayscough in 1754); succeeded James Ayscough in 1763; T.C.; "The Original Shop for Crown Glass Spectacles"; "optician." | St, Giles, Cripplegate; the Great Golden Spectacles and Quadrant, 33 Ludgate Street, near St. Paul's (1764); both in London. | Taylor 2(505); Goodison 1; Court and von Rohr 3(167); NMM 2; Daumas 1; Clay and Court; Crawforth 6; Robischon; RSW; Evans 1. |
| LINNELL, JOSEPH 2 | England, c.1774, OIM | apprenticed to Robert Linnell of the Spectaclemakers' Company on Oct. 3, 1774; Robischon thought he was apprenticed to Joseph Linnell 1. | Court and von Rohr 3(204); Robischon. | ||
| LINNELL, ROBERT | England, fl.1754-74, OIM | apprenticed in the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1747; free of the Company, Oct. 3, 1754; took apprentices. | London. | Court and von Rohr 3(166). | |
| LINNICH, NICLAES | Germany, 1766, NIM | Crown Compass, 1766 = D.(1986) = Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum. | Altoona. | RSW. | |
| LINSENBARTH, O. | Germany, c.1800, MIM | Rod for liquid measure = DRE. | Eisenach. | Grötzsch 2; RSW. | |
| LIOBAR | France, 1789, MIM | Sundial, 1789 = Veynins, Isère. | Gatty 1. | ||
| LIONE AND CO. 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2). | see James Lione. | 81 Holborn, London. | Goodison 1. |
| LIONE AND CO. 2 | England, fl.1820-36, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | see Dominick Lione. | 14 Brook Street (1820); 16 Brook Street (1821-36); both in London. | Goodison 1. |
| LIONE AND FARONI | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | ||
| LIONE AND SOMALVICO | England, fl.1805-20, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X; Wheel Barometers = X(2), Soth. 6/6/75 and 7/21/83, Christie-SK 9/11/86 and 1/22/87; Barometers = Soth. 7/3/70 and 7/31/70, Christie 7/6/72; Barometer in clock = D.(1971). | Dominick Lione and Joseph Somalvico 1. | 125 Holborn Hill (1805-07); 14 Brook Street, Holborn (1811-20; 16 Brook Street, Holborn; all in London. | Goodison 1; RSW. |
| LIONE AND TARONE | England, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Holborn, London. | Goodison 1; Bell 2. | |
| LIONE, D. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Liverpool. | Goodison 1. | |
| LIONE, D., AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, Christie-SK 10/20/89. | probably Dominick Lione with Joseph Somalvico 1 or another maker. | 81 High Holborn, London. | Goodison 1; RSW. |
| LIONE, DOMINICK | England, fl.1805-36, PHIM | made barometers; partner with Joseph Somalvico 1, 1805-19, as Lione and Somalvico and as Lione, Somalvico and Co.; see Lione and Co. 2; on his own, 1820-36. | 125 Holborn Hill (1805-07); 14 Brook Street (1811-20); 16 Brook Street; all in London. | Goodison 1. | |
| LIONE, J. 1 | England, c.1830, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = P.C., Soth. 2/19/87. | probably James Lione. | London. | Goodison 1; RSW. |
| LIONE, J. 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | see John Leone. | Aylesbury. | Goodison 1. |
| LIONE, JAMES | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X (4). | two are signed "Jas. Lione." | 81 High Holborn, London. | Goodison 1. |
| LIONE, SOMALVICO AND CO. | England, fl.1805-19, OIM PHIM | Wheel Barometers = P.C., X, Christie 10/5/72, Soth. 3/7/75, 7/16/76 & 12/15/83, Soth.-Pulborough 3/31/83; Stick Barometer = Soth. 7/2/83, D.(1976); etc. | opticians; many examples survive from both addresses; Dominick Lione and Joseph Somalvico 1; see Lione and Somalvico, D., Lione and Co., Somalvico, Lione and Co. | 125 Holborn Hill (1805-07); 14 Brook Street (1811-19); both in London. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(1378); RSW. |
| LIONI | see Leone, Lione. | Bell 2. | |||
| LIPPERSHEY, HANS | Holland, fl.1594-1619, OIM | Telescope = LUN. | spectacle maker; claimed to have made the first telescope; applied, unsuccessfully for a patent for it in 1608; developed a microscope. | Middelburg. | Rooseboom 1; Zinner 1; Daumas 1; Wynter and Turner; Nachet; A.J. Turner 10. |
| LIPPERSHEY, JEAN | see Hans Lippershey. | Nachet. | |||
| LISCOMB, JOHN | USA, c. 1800, | probably owner; marked on a garden sundial signed "I.W." (4) which see. | RSW. | ||
| LISIEUX, PERE ET FILS | France, OIM | Solar Microscope = D.(1969). | Lisieux père et fils. | RSW. | |
| LISTER, JOSEPH JACKSON | England, 1786-1869, OIM | invented a new achromatic microscope; F.R.S., 1832. | Taylor 2(1174); G.L'E. Turner 24. | ||
| LISTER, THOMAS | England, 1745-1814, MIM | Orrery = University Museum, Glasgow. | made orreries designed by Joseph Priestley; clockmaker. | Halifax; Yorkshire. | Taylor 2(282); Baillie 1. |
| LISTER, WILLIAM | England, MIM | T.C.; sold second-hand chronometers. | Newcastle-on-Tyne. | Crawforth 1. | |
| LISTER, WILLIAM, AND SONS | England, c.1846, NIM | T.C.; made chronometers. | Newcastle. | Crawforth 1. | |
| LISTON, D. | England?, 1772, MIM | Horary Quadrant, 1772 = BRU. | Morpurgo 1. | ||
| LITTLEWORT | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Soth. 2/4/77. | could be George or William Littlewort. | Ball Alley, Lombard Street, London. | O'Mara; RSW. |
| LITTLEWORT, GEORGE | England, fl.1826-48, OIM PHIM | barometer maker. | 11 Ball Alley, Lombard Street, London (1836-40). | Taylor 2(2169); O'Mara; RSW. | |
| LITTLEWORT, WILLIAM | England, fl.1824-48, MIM OIM PHIM | 7 Ball Alley, Lombard Street, London. | Taylor 2(1626); Dewhirst; O'Mara; RSW. | ||
| LITTLEWORTH, W. | England, fl.1822-23, OIM | optician. | 7 Upper East Smithfield, London. | O'Mara. | |
| LITTMAN, E. | Sweden, c.1850, MIM | had a display at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. | Stockholm. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | |
| LITTMANN, CHRISTIAN EDWARD | Germany; Sweden, 1804-57, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Microscopes = STT (1836), SWE; Dip Needle = SWE; Rule = SWE; Balance = Berzelius Museum (SWE). | instrument maker to Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1833-56; made many fine instruments. | Halle; Munich (1827-32); Stockholm. | Pipping 1 and 2; RSW. |
| LIVEING AND DEWAR | England, pre-1880, | George D. Liveing and Sir James Dewar; designed a direct vision spectroscope. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | ||
| LIVEING, GEORGE D. | England, 1827-1924, | see Liveing and Dewar. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | ||
| LIVINGS, JOHN | England, fl.1840-47, MIM OIM | optician. | 136 Goswell Street (1840); 103 Rahere Street, Goswell Street (1847); both in London. | O'Mara. | |
| LIVINGSTON, PETER R. | USA, c.1781, MIM | filed a payment claim for a plane table he had provided to the U.S. Surveying Department; maker or dealer? | New York, N.Y. | Bedini 8. | |
| LIZARS, J. | Scotland; Englandfl.1858-1900+, OIM PHIM | Microscopes = FRK = RSM (4), P.C., Christie-SK 4/17/86; Barograph with Thermometer = Christie 11/22/78; Telescope = FRK = RSM; Magic Lantern = FRK = RSM; Aneroid Barometer = Phillips 11/16/88. | optician; dealer. | 16 Glassford Street, Glasgow; Glasgow and London; Edinburgh. | Morrison-Low 1; Moskowitz 132; RSW. |
| LLOYD | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Hereford. | Goodison 1. | |
| LLOYD, JOHN 1 | England, 1740, NIM | Backstaff, 1740 = Christie-SK 11/2/95. | RSW. | ||
| LLOYD, JOHN 2 | England, c.1769, | apprenticed to John Cuff of the Spectaclemakers' Company on Feb. 14, 1765; turned over to Henry Raines Shuttleworth of the Company on July 7, 1769. | Court and von Rohr 3(191); RSW. | ||
| LOAM, MICHAEL | England, OIM | Microscope = Christie 3/29/60. | Hampton, Middlesex. | RSW. | |
| LOCK | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Oxford. | Goodison 1. | |
| LOCKE, JOHN | USA, 1792-1856, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass = USNM. | a medical doctor; invented an orrery made by Aaron Willard Jr.; patented a type of surveying compass; invented an electro-chronograph and a collimating level; did research on magnetism; Professor of Chemistry, Ohio Medical College; it may be that there are two John Lockes. | Boston, Mass.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Newark, Ohio. | Smart 1; D.J. Warner 6; USNM. |
| LOCKERSON, JAMES | England, c.1582, MIM | worked in wood. | near the Conduit at Dow Gate, London. | Gunther 4; Taylor 1(64); Michel 3. | |
| LOCKWOOD, ANTHONY | England, c.1818, | designed a new universal compass. | Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London. | Taylor 2(1379). | |
| LOCKWOOD, J.J. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, Christie-SK 9/23/88. | the Christie barometer is signed "J. Lockwood Preston" and marked "Warranted Correct." | Preston. | Goodison 1; RSW. |
| LODWICK, ABRAHAM | England, c.1695, | apprenticed to Isaac Webb of the Clockmakers' Company on April 27, 1695. | J. Brown 3. | ||
| LOEBER, CHARLES | Germany; USA, 1826-1906, MIM OIM SIM | partner with James M. Shanahan as Shanahan and Loeber, 1853-56; may have also worked for Stackpole and Bro. | 181 William (1854-55); 50 1/2 Fulton (1855-56); Fulton Street, New York and 18 Rush, Brooklyn (1873); both in N.Y. | Smart 1. | |
| LOEBL, MATTHIAS | Germany, MIM | Horizontal Sundial = P. and S. 5/20/1895. | Weissenburg. | RSW. | |
| LOESER | see Löser. | Chaldecott 4. | |||
| LOEWENSTAMM | Germany, c.1768, OIM | made telescopes and other observatory instruments. | Dresden; Frankfort (1768-). | Daumas 1. | |
| LOFT, MATTHEW | England, 1697-1748, OIM | Microscopes = KEN, OXF, NOR, LEY, WHI, LOS, Uppsala U., etc.; Telescopes = U. of Nottingham, D.(1975), etc. | apprenticed to Thomas Gay 2 of the Spectaclemakers' Company on Aug. 15, 1711; free of the Company on Jan. 12, 1720; Master of the Company 1744-45; took apprentices; T.C. | at the Golden Spectacles in Threadneedle Street, fronting on the North Gate of the Royal Exchange (backside of the Exchange); Reflecting Telescope and Hadley's Quadrant in Cornhill; both in London. | Taylor 1(562) and 2(86); Court and von Rohr 3(90); Maddison 1; Chaldecott 1; Fürst; Wynter 2; Daumas 1; van der Star 1; RSW; Clay and Court; Crawforth 6; Robischon. |
| LOFTUS | England, c.1850, MIM PHIM | Hydrometers = D.(1974), K. & C. 4/7/76, D.(1976), etc. Double Slide Rule = D.(1976); Gauger Set = D.; Stick Barometer = Christie 4/26/90. | many of the hygrometers are marked "maker to the Revenue." | 146 Oxford Street, London. | Moskowitz ; Coffeen II; RSW. |
| LOFTUS, W.R., LTD. | England, c.1875, PHIM | Sike's Hydrometer = Phillips 7/28/82. | also made thermometers; Turner indicated 821 Oxford Street. | 321 Oxford Street, London. | G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. |
| LOFTUS, WILLIAM R. | England, c.1869, MIM PHIM SIM | later became W.R. Loftus Ltd. | 321 Oxford Street; 146 Oxford Street (W); both in London. | O'Mara. | |
| LOGEMAN EN FUNCKLER | Holland, fl.1859-60, PHIM | Hydraulic Press, 1858 = TEY. | Logeman en Fünckler. | G.L'E. Turner 7 & 24. | |
| LOGEMAN, WILLEM MARTINUS | Holland, 1835-60, NIM OIM PHIM | Barometers = LEY, KAS; Foucalt Pendulum, 1856 = TEY; Resonator, 1848 = TEY; Galvanometer = TEY; Compass, 1852 = P.C. | had display in the 1851 Great Exhibition in London; worked with F.W. Fünckler, 1858-60. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2; G.L'E. Turner 24; Crommelin 1; Middleton 1; RSW. |
| LOISEAU | France, 1841, MIM | succeeded Huette in 1841. | Paris. | Nachet. | |
| LOKEUX | misreading for Lekeux. | Garcia 1. | |||
| LOMAS, H. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometers = X and Adlington Hall(2), D.(1996). | the barometers at Adlington Hall are signed "Lomas." | Adlington. | Goodison 1; ATG 3/15/97. |
| LOMAS, RICHARD | England, c.1794, MIM | member of the Wheelwrights' Company; took over Richard Burnell as an apprentice from Charles Fairbone 1 of the Grocers' Company on Feb. 12, 1794. | London. | J. Brown 1. | |
| LOMBARDELLUS | 1559, | see Ioannes Lombardellus Castellanus Masse | Lombardy? | RSW. | |
| LOMBARDINI | England, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | probably a dealer. | Bristol. | Goodison 1. |
| LOMBARDINI AND CASTELETTI | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Salop = Shrewsbury. | Goodison 1. | |
| LOMBARDINI AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | ||
| LOMBARDINI BROS. | England, PHIM | barometer makers. | Manchester. | Bell 2. | |
| LOMBARDINI, A. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = Christie-SK 11/27/86, Soth.-S 4/24/87. | Bristol. | RSW. | |
| LOMBARDINI, FRANCIS | England, c.1844, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | signed "F. Lombardini Totnes." | Fore Street, Totnes. | Goodison 1; Bell 2. |
| LOMBARDINI, J. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2). | Goodison 1. | ||
| LOMBARDINI, S. | England, post-1850, PHIM | barometers; looking-glass maker. | Lower Castle Street, Bristol. | Bell 2. | |
| LOMBARDINI, WILLIAM | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = D.(1997). | Huddersfield. | ATG 3/1/97. | |
| LOMMEL, JOHANN LEONHARDT | Germany, c.1620, MIM | Astrolabe Clock = OXF. | Gunther No. 345. | Nürnberg. | Michel 2; Gunther 1; Baillie 1. |
| LOMMERS, JACOBUS | Holland, fl.1751-65, OIM PHIM | Microscopes = UTR (1751), DEU (1760), LEY; Telescope, 1765 = AMST; Optical Instruments = LEY. | Utrecht. | Rooseboom 1; Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2; Daumas 1; Crommelin 1; van der Star 1; USNM. | |
| LOND, B. | misreading for Bloud. | Marouf 10/3/70. | |||
| LONDON STEREOSCOPIC CO. | England, PHIM | Kaleidoscope = P.C. | "new patent jewel Kaleidoscope." | London. | RSW. |
| LONE, J.C.P. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = D.(1975). | may be Love. | 113 High Holborn, Lomdon. | RSW. |
| LONG | England, 19th Century, NIM | Sextant, ebony and ivory = Bearnes 1/27/88. | RSW. | ||
| LONG AND JOHNSON | England, fl.1785-1810, MIM OIM PHIM | Spyglasses = WHI-977, P.C. | James Long and Johnson. | at the North Gate of the Royal Exchange, London. | Taylor 2(626); Dewhirst; Court and von Rohr 3(197); Clay and Court. |
| LONG, A.J. | England, late 19th Century, PHIM | Sike's Hydrometer = Soth.-B 12/21/76. | RSW. | ||
| LONG, ENOCH | USA, 1763, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass with Sundial, 1763 = New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord. | surveyor. | Hopkinton, New Hamp. | Bedini 8. |
| LONG, ENOCH, JR. | USA, c.1763, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass, wood, 1763 = New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord. | surveyor. | Hopkinton, New Hampshire. | Bedini 8. |
| LONG, J. 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Tiverton. | Goodison 1. | |
| LONG, J. 2 | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Soth. 5/18/89. | probably James or Joseph Long. | London. | RSW. |
| LONG, JAMES | England, fl.1781-1817, MIM OIM PHIM | Drawing Instrument Set = Soth. 1/22/73; Telescopes = X, CZJ, etc.; Sundials = Soth. 9/20/83, etc.; Stick Barometers = X(4); Wheel Barometers = X (3); Air Pump = CNAM; Microscope = Soth. 10/28/86. | apprenticed to Edward Nairne of the Spectaclemakers' Company on Aug. 14, 1769; free of the Company on Oct. 30, 1781; Master of the Company, 1805-07; partner with Johnson, as Long and Johnson, 1785-1810; optician; patented a sympiesometer; T.C.; succeeded by James Smith 1. | at the North Gate of the Royal Exchange ; 4 Back of the Royal Exchange (1817-); both in London. | Taylor 2(626); Goodison 1; Court and von Rohr 3(197); Dewhirst; Calvert 2; Daumas 1; Clay and Court; RSW. |
| LONG, JOSEPH | England, fl.1820-60, MIM OIM PHIM | Sector = P.C.; Stick Barometer = X; Microscope = Christie 11/22/78; Hydrometers = OXF, KEN, WHI, USNM, P.C., D., Norwich Castle Museum; Thermometers = P.C., D.; Slide Rules, ivory = D., Soth. 10/17/60; Slide Rule, double = D.(1973; Rule = D.(1988). | Taylor thought there might be two people; "Maker to the Indian and Colonial Governments." | 136 Goswell Street, Clerkenwell; 20 Little Tower Street (1820-29); South Tower Street; 43 Eastcheap; all in London. | Taylor 2(1631 and 1632); Goodison 1; Bell 2; Moskowitz 106; Calvert 2; USNM; G.L'E. Turner 24; McConnell 4; RSW. |
| LONG, JOSH | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | see Joseph Long. | 20 Little Tower Street, London. | Goodison 1. |
| LONG, SOLOMON | England, fl.1686-91, MIM | erected sundials. | near the Pump in Little Britain, London. | Taylor 1(444). | |
| LONGLAND, WILLIAM | England, fl.1674-1722, OIM | Telescopes = NMM-O.115/9102c, Stuart Art Exhibition, 1686. | apprenticed to Joseph Howe of the Broderers' Company through the Spectaclemakers' Company on Jan. 27, 1668; free of the Spectaclemakers' Company on July 2, 1674; Master of the Spectaclemakers' Company 1686-87 and 1694-95. | The Ship, Cornhill, London. | Taylor 1(321) & 2(87); NMM 2; Court and von Rohr 3(35); Clay and Court; Evans 1; Dewhirst; J. Brown 1; RSW. |
| LONGMAN, JAMES | England, c.1786, OIM | free of the Spectaclemakers' Company before 1786; took an apprentice. | 26 Cheapside, London. | Dewhirst; Court and von Rohr 3(208). | |
| LONGONI, F. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | ||
| LOOF JUNR, W. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = Soth.-Sussex 9/18/86 and 4/24/82, Bearnes 1/24/90. | "Watch and Clockmaker." | Tunbridge Wells. | RSW. |
| LOOIJ, ARENT | Holland, c.1744, NIM | made compasses. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2 & 5. | |
| LOON, HAN A | Holland, c.1680, NIM | Quadrant = UTR. | "Han à Loon fecit T'Amsterdam by Joannes van Keulen." | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. |
| LOOS 1 | Germany, c.1810, PHIM | tried to improve Fortin-type barometer; may be same man as Loos 2. | Büdingen. | Middleton 1. | |
| LOOS 2 | Germany, c.1825, PHIM | tried to improve De Luc-type barometer; may be same man as Loos 1. | Darmstadt. | Middleton 1. | |
| LOOS, DANIEL FREDERICK | Germany, 1735-1819, MIM | Pocket Almanac, silver, 1805 = Soth. 12/3/76. | RSW. | ||
| LOOS, JOH. GEORG | Germany, c.1738, PHIM | made nested weights; master mark was three crowns, later used by Carl Gottlieb Lorenz, c.1795. | Nürnberg. | Koller 11/17/75. | |
| LOOT, JOH. | Holland, 18th Century, PHIM | thermometer maker; probably Johannis Loots. | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1. | |
| LOOTS, JOHANNIS | Holland, c.1665-1726, MIM NIM PHIM | Cross-staves, = BRO (1716), Museum für Meereskunde, Berlin (1729) (lost); Astrolabe = BOM 3/28/06 or 10; Astronomical Instrument = BOM 3/28/06 or 10; Quadrant, wood = UTR. | "Boekverkooper en Graadbooghmaaker." | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2; Rooseboom 1; Belgian Inventory; Darius 4. |
| LOOTSMAN, JACOB THEUNIS | Holland, d.1679, NIM | cross-staff maker and bookseller. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | ||
| LORAIN | France, c.1850, MIM | Terrestrial Globe = Auction, Honfleur, 6/17/79. | RSW. | ||
| LORDELLE | France, fl.1742-46, MIM | Universal Ring Sundials = NMM, WRAY, NOR (1743); Graphometer, 1742 = NAC; Mathematical Instrument Set = WRAY; Butterfield-type Sundial = P.C.(1969). | Nachet stated that Lordelle was the successor to Bion. | à la Sphère, Paris. | Nachet; Daumas 1; NMM 2; MADEX; RSW. |
| LORDETTE | France, | misreading for Lordelle. | WRAY. | ||
| LORENZ, CARL GOTTLIEB | Germany, c.1795, PHIM | made nested weights; master mark was three crowns, which was used earlier by Joh. Georg Loos. | Nürnberg. | Koller 11/17/75. | |
| LORENZ, JOHN | England, c.1850, MIM SIM | Level, surveying = Christie-SK 11/19/87. | Leeds. | RSW. | |
| LORER, JOH. | Switzerland, 1617, | author; wrote on a new "Geometrical Instrument." | Zurich. | Zinner 6. | |
| LORICHON | France, 1805, PHIM | marked on the scale of a Hassenfratz barometer "Divisé et Gravé par Lorichon, floreal an 13", (April, 1805). | Paris. | Daumas 1; Middleton 1. | |
| LORIE, DAVID W. | Scotland, 18th Century, NIM | Hadley's Quadrant = OMM. | Leith. | RSW. | |
| LORIEUX LEPETIT | France, c.1850, NIM | Sextant = PMM; Full Circle = Gersaint, La Rochelle 7/23/94. | surely E. Lorieux; full circle signed "Lorieux Lepetit Succ. à Montrouge N. 666." | Paris. | RSW. |
| LORIEUX, E. | France, fl.1825-50?, NIM OIM | Sextants = NMM, PMM(2), Gersaint 7/20/96 (891); Borda Circles = VNN, PEA; Telescope = CNAM; Theodolite, telescopic = Christie 3/21/91. | succeeded Schwartz; succeeded by A. Hurlimann; Ponthus, Lepetit and Schiavetti-Bellini also claimed to have been the successor; see their entries; address for theodolite was "No. 3, Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine." | Pour du Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine Imperiale, 30 Rue et Passage Dauphine et Rue Mazarine 27, Paris. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; Brewington 1; NMM 2; RSW. |
| LORIEUX, E., PERE | France, c.1850, NIM | Reflecting Circle = Drouot Richelieu 4/28/88. | signed "E. Lorieux Père." | Paris. | RSW. |
| LORIEUX, LEPETIT POULIN | France, post-1850, NIM | Sextant = Christie-SK 4/14/89. | No. 9047. | Bagneux, Seine. | RSW. |
| LORIMER, JOHN | England, c.1795, | designed a dipping and variation needle. | Taylor 2(1007). | ||
| LORING | USA, fl.1832-46, MIM | made many globes, celestial and terrestrial; "From Smith's new English Globe"; see Josiah Loring. | Boston, Mass. | Yonge; RSW. | |
| LORING AND CHURCHILL | USA, fl.1859-60, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = P.C. | Henry Wiliam Loring and Gardner Asaph Churchill; successors to C.G. King. | 72 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. | Smart 1; RSW. |
| LORING, BENJAMIN | USA, b.1775, | twin brother of Josiah Loring; stationer. | Boston, Mass. | Yonge. | |
| LORING, HENRY WILLIAM | USA, 1807-85, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = D.(1976); Compass = P.C. | worked alone, 1831-58; Loring and Churchill (1859-60); alone, 1863-65. | 7 Broad Street (1850-57), Boston, Mass. | Smart 1; Moskowitz. |
| LORING, JOSEPH | misreading for Josiah Loring? | Bedini 8. | |||
| LORING, JOSHUA | misreading for Josiah Loring. | RSW. | |||
| LORING, JOSIAH | USA, 1775-1840, MIM | Pairs of Globes = D.(1983)((1833), P-B 10/22/38, P.C.(1833), Rutgers U. Library, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Conn. (1838), D.(1987); Celestial Globes = D.(1968)(1832), PEA (1832), PEA (1833), D.(1976)(1833); Babson Institute, Mass., Yale U.; Terrestrial Globes = P.C.(1839), U.S. Naval Academy, Md. (1839), D.(1976). | according to Bedini, Loring was a bookseller who sold globes engraved by Annin, under his own name. | 136 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. | Bedini 8; Yonge; Moskowitz; RSW. |
| LORING, JOSIAH AND BENJAMIN | USA, c.1833, MIM | Pair of Globes on stands, 1833 = D.(1988). | 136 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. | RSW. | |
| LORKIN, ABRAHAM | England, c.1736, MIM | apprenticed to James Wilson 2 of the Clockmakers' Company on Jan. 15, 1733; turned over to Thomas Colliber, Feb. 20, 1736. | J. Brown 3. | ||
| LORKIN, JAMES | England, fl.1805-22, MIM NIM | Sextant = X(USA). | 89 New Gravel Lane, Wapping; near New Crane Stairs, Wapping; both in London. | Taylor 2(1175). | |
| LORKIN, THOMAS | England, c.1825, MIM NIM | Magnetic Compass, jewelled pivot = RSM; Sextants = Soth. 7/29/69, D.(1971). | T.C.; member of the Wheelwrights' Company; took over Thomas Dench as apprentice from Joseph Rust 2 of the Grocers' Company on March 16, 1789. | Wapping, New Crane Stairs; 89 near New Crane Stairs; both in London. | J. Brown 1; Wynter and Turner; RSW. |
| LORT, JOHN | Ireland, fl.1767-82, MIM | may be Lort in Wood and Lort in Birmingham, who were succeeded by Frost and Withnoll in 1767. | Walker's Alley (1767); 8 Upper Blind Quay (1776); 8 Exchange Street (1777-78); Plunket Street (1779-82); all in Dublin. | Bryden 9; Morrison-Low and Burnett; Taylor 2(553). | |
| LOSEL, ALBRECHT | Germany, 1610, MIM | Diptych Sundials, 1610, = LIE, POTS (Hellmann Coll.). | Albrecht Lösel; married Caspar Karner's widow, Elisabeth, in 1590; they had a son, Michael Lesel, which see. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Körber 1; Gouk 1. |
| LOSER, HANS | Germany, 1704-63, MIM OIM PHIM | Pedometer = DRE. | Reichsgraf Hans Löser, Marshall of Saxony; designed a metallic thermometer; see "H.L." 3, "L. 1" and "L.Z." 1. | Reinharz. | Zinner 1; Grötzsch 2; Chaldecott 4; RSW. |
| LOTHAN | England, c.1100, MIM | Wall Sundial = Church, Great Edstone. | Great Edstone. | Gatty. | |
| LOTHIAN | England, 1829, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, 1829 = Soth. 5/2/75. | RSW. | ||
| LOTTER, TOBIAS CONRAD | Germany, fl.1774-99, MIM | Armillary Sphere, 1774 = BAR; Planetarium = BAR; Pair of Globes, 1798 & 1799 = BAR. | geographer. | Augsburg. | RSW. |
| LOUAGHI | see Taroni and Louaghi. | Goodison 1. | |||
| LOUCHET | France, 1838, PHIM | Barometer, portable, 1838 = Weil. | Paris. | RSW. | |
| LOUIS | France?, 1716, MIM | Gauging Rod, 1716 = NYC. | DES. | ||
| LOUIS, CHRISTIAN KARL | Denmark, 1773, MIM | compass maker. | Copenhagen. | Schück. | |
| LOUIS, JEAN | France, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial, silver = Christie 6/7/72. | Paris. | RSW. | |
| LOURDEL | France, c.1760, MIM SIM | Surveying Instrument = X. | Lordelle ? | Daumas 1. | |
| LOUTEAU, PIERRE | France, c.1595, MIM | Sundial in back of watch = Exposition Maison Wolters Frères, Bruxelles, 1938; Sundial on the base of a clock, mounted on Atlas = SPI-2719. | Lyon. | Catalogue of the Exposition, 14 May-4 June, 1938; RSW. | |
| LOUVEL | France, fl.1765-71, OIM | Noël-Jean Lerebours worked under him, pre-1787. | au Cloître Saint-Benoît, Paris (1771). | Nachet; Daumas 1; RSW. | |
| LOUVILLE, CHEVALIER DE | see Jacques-Eugène d'Allonville, Chevalier de Louville. | A.J. Turner 10. | |||
| LOVE, J.C.P. | see J.C.P. Lone. | RSW. | |||
| LOVEGROVE, F.N. | England, | invented a quadrant dial. | London. | L.K. Hirschberg. | |
| LOVELACE, W. | England, c.1756, NIM PHIM | see W. Barrow and W. Lovelace; T.C. | at the Golden Lion in St. Martins-Le-Grand, London. | Calvert 2; RSW. | |
| LOVELACE, WILLIAM | England, c.1796, NIM | Escapement Timer for Log = PEA. | clockmaker. | 14 Charles Street, Hoxton. | Taylor 2(1007a); Brewington 1; Price 2. |
| LOVI 1 | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | ||
| LOVI 2 | Scotland, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | see Angelo Lovi. | Edinburgh. | Goodison 1. |
| LOVI, ANGELO | Scotland, c.1804, PHIM | Stick Barometer = RSM; Double Barometer = WHI. | glass-blower; may be Lovi 2; RSM is signed "A. Lovi." | 82 South Bridge (1804); 16 South Bridge; both in Edinburgh. | Goodison 1; Bryden 3; RSW. |
| LOVI, MRS. ISOBEL | Scotland, fl.1805-27, PHIM | Philosophical Bubble Sets = RSM, KEN, CYM. | held patent on aerometrical beads (philosophical bubbles) in 1805; probably widow of Angelo Lovi. | 82 South Bridge (1806); Geddes Close (1807-11); 79 High Street (1812-13); Strichen's Close (1814-21); 113 High Street (1822); 114 High Street (1823-25); Strichen's Close (1826-27); all in Edinburgh. | Bryden 3; G.L'E. Turner 24; Morrison-Low 1. |
| LOW, A. | Scotland, PHIM | Double Barometer = WHI. | 16 South Bridge, Edinburgh. | RSW. | |
| LOW, EDWARD | England, 1763, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1763 = MYS. | also marked "A.B.T.C.D." | RSW. | |
| LOWDEN, GEORGE | Scotland, fl.1850-1900, OIM PHIM | Telescopes = Soth. 10/15/73 = FRK = RSM, Christie 11/22/78; Microscope = FRK = RSM; Telescope, refracting = FRK = RSM. | 25 Union Street (1850-61); 1 Union Street (1864-74); 23 Nethergate (1876-80); 65 Reform Street (1882-1900); all in Dundee. | Bryden 3; Morrison-Low 1; RSW. | |
| LOWE | England, 19th Century, OIM | Spyglass, gilt-brass = WHI. | Gavin or Joshua Reeve Lowe? | London. | Dewhirst. |
| LOWE, EDWARD | England, 1644, | took John Seller 1 as an apprentice in the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1644; Crawforth could find no record of Lowe being an instrument maker. | London. | Crawforth 8. | |
| LOWE, GAVIN | England, fl.1803-18, MIM | Instrument = WHI. | Paradise Row, Islington, London. | Taylor 2(1176). | |
| LOWE, JOSHUA REEVE | England, c.1836, MIM | Cherry Tree Court, Aldersgate, London. | O'Mara. | ||
| LOWELL AND SENTER | USA, fl.1846-73, NIM SIM | Surveying Compass, 1864 = D.(1997). | Abner Lowell and William Senter 1; also made watches. | Portland, Me. | Smart 1; MAD Nov. 1997. |
| LOWELL, ABNER | USA, 1812-83, MIM SIM | apprenticed to Oliver Gerrish; in business for himself, 1834-36 and 1870-77; was associated with William Senter 1, 1836-70, as Lowell and Senter, then with his two sons until 1877; clockmaker. | Exchange Street (1836-66); Pearl Street (1866); Exchange Street (1867-77); all in Portland, Me. | Smart 1; Katra. | |
| LOWEN, JOHN | England, c.1718, | apprenticed to John Crooke 1 in the Joiners' Company, June 17, 1718. | Crawforth 7. | ||
| LOWENGARD, JULES | France, MIM | made astrolabes and nocturnals. | Furniss. | ||
| LOWITZ, G.M. | Germany, 1712-74, MIM | Celestial Globes, 1747 = KRM, DEU, TRA, Nördlingen Museum, Wasserburg Stadtmuseum. | Göttingen. | Zinner 1. | |
| LOWTHER, G. | England, NIM | Octant = Kolding Museum; Sextant = Christie 5/26/76. | T.C. | 31 Quay Side; Docks; both in Newcastle-on-Tyne. | RSW. |
| LOYSEL, ECCLESIASTIQUE | France, 1671, MIM | Peripole, brass, 1671 = OXF. | Evans 1. | ||
| LUBACH, FRANZ 1 | Austria, d.1726, MIM | Horizontal Sundials, stone = KRM, SEI; Horizontal Sundials = VIE, HAK, KRM (2). | some may have been made by Franz Lubach 2, his son. | Vienna. | Zinner 1; Michel 1; RSW. |
| LUBACH, FRANZ 2 | Austria, fl.1710-36, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial = X. | son of Franz Lubach 1; may have made some of the sundials listed under his father's name. | Vienna. | Zinner 1; Nachet. |
| LUBACH, JOHAN SIMON | Austria, c.1700, MIM | Table Sundials = ADL-M270, WHI, KRM; Mechanical Equatorial Sundial = NOR; Universal Ring Sundial = PRA. | Vienna. | Zinner 1; Engelmann 1; Bryden 16; Michel 3; Evans 1; ADL; RSW. | |
| LUCAR, S. | instrument at TIM; is he same as S. Lucas, which see? | RSW. | |||
| LUCAS, JACQUES | France, fl.1675-1704, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial = NYM-01.21.60. | Hugenot; watchmaker in Amsterdam by 1681. | La Rochelle; The Rokin, Amsterdam (1704). | Furniss; Vincent 2; Baillie 1. |
| LUCAS, S. | England, MIM | Garden Sundial = D.(1969); String-gnomon Sundial = HAY. | London. | RSW. | |
| LUCAS, WEDUWE | Holland, c.1742, NIM | the Widow Lucas; compass maker. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | |
| LUCCA | Italy, 1767, MIM | Bow Compass, 1767 = ADL-M68. | town? | Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | |
| LUCIN, FRANCIS | England, c.1839, PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker; see Francis Lucini. | 142 Great Saffron Hill, London. | Goodison 1. | |
| LUCINI, FRANCIS | England, fl.1836-38, PHIM | barometer maker. | Baldwins Gardens, London. | Bell 2. | |
| LUCIONI, GIUSEPPE A. | England, fl.1851-54, PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker. | 36 Ray Street, Clerkenwell, London. | Goodison 1. | |
| LUDEWIG | Germany, c.1720, MIM | Table Sundials = DRE (lost), ADL-M265, MUN, NYM, OXF. | Dresden. | Zinner 1; Drechsler 2; Engelmann 1; Chandler & Vincent 1; Maurice 1; ADL; RSW. | |
| LUDFORD, WILLIAM | England, c.1750, | apprenticed to John Urings 2 in the Joiners' Company on Feb. 5, 1750. | Crawforth 7. | ||
| LUDOVICI, DOMENICO, S.J. | Italy, pre-1746, MIM | Sundial = X. | author of "Horologium Triplex." | Boursier. | |
| LUDTRING, JOHANN | Germany, fl.1680-88, MIM | made an armillary sphere, a large planetarium and astronomical instruments for Eimmart. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Michel 3. | |
| LUDWIG, J.C. | Germany, c.1742, MIM | Table Sundial = KRA; Circumferentor = KRA. | Dresden. | RSW. | |
| LUDY, E.F. | England, NIM | Sextant = Christie 11/22/78. | Grimsby. | RSW. | |
| LUFKIN | USA, fl.1869-to date, MIM | made a wide range of rules and tapes. | Philip E. Stanley. | ||
| LUHME, J.F., UND CO. | Germany, c.1850, MIM | balance makers; had a display in the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. | Berlin, Prussia. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | |
| LUISCIUS, ABRAHAM VAN STIPRIAAN | Holland, 1764-1829, | Bathometer = APS. | invented a barometer which was made by Onderdewijngaart Canzius in 1805. | Delft. | Rooseboom 1; Multhauf. |
| LUISETTI, I. | England, PHIM | barometer maker. | London. | Bell 2. | |
| LUKENS, ISAIAH | USA, 1779-1846, NIM PHIM | Sextant = D.(1978) = P.C. | made meteorological, philosophical and chemical instruments; clockmaker. | Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM; D.J. Warner 10; RSW. |
| LUMLEY AND CO. | England, c.1840, PHIM | Sike's Hydrometers = Christie-SK 7/10/80, Soth. 3/13/67 (2). | see L. Lumley. | London. | RSW. |
| LUMLEY, L. | England, c.1840, PHIM | Hydrometers = CMY, Christie-SK 5/10/77; Vacuum Pump = CMY. | 121 Minories, London. | RSW. | |
| LUMLEY, L., AND CO. | England, fl.1840-, PHIM | Sike's Hydrometers = P.C., Phillips 2/22/77; Thermometer = D.(1974). | Phillips and D. are "Ltd." | 121 Minories, London. | RSW. |
| LUMMEN?, A.K. | Holland, 1827, NIM | Bearing Compass, 1827 = AMST. | marked "A.H." (2) on the gimbals. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. |
| LUNAN, WILLIAM | Scotland, fl.1824-d.1827, PHIM | Electrical Machine, globe = RSM. | watch and clockmaker too. | 8 Castle Street, Aberdeen (1824-25). | Bryden 3; Morrison-Low 1. |
| LUND, PETER A.J. Also Lundh. | Norway, PHIM | Stick Barometer = OMM. Drawing Instruments | WEBDB | Christiania. Oslo. | RSW. |
| LUNDBY, F. | England, MIM | Horary Quadrant = OMM. | may be Lundy. | Grimsby. | RSW. |
| LUNDY, J.F. | England, NIM | Sextant = Soth. 11/9/70. | may be Lundby? | Grimsby. | RSW. |
| LUPICINI, ANTONIO | Italy, fl.1581-91, MIM | Armillary Sphere = FLO. | invented a surveying instrument; wrote on astronomical instruments and calendars. | Florence. | Michel 3; RSW. |
| LUPPIE AND SOLCHA | England, c.1840, PHIM | made barometers and thermometers; Salvatore Luppie and Lewis Solcha; see Lappi and Solcha. | Hull. | Loomes. | |
| LUPPIE, SALVATORE | see Lappi and Solcha. | Loomes 1. | |||
| LURASCO, C. | see Gebroeders Lurasco. | Crommelin 1. | |||
| LURASCO, GEBROEDERS | Holland, 1793-1850, MIM PHIM | Thermometer = LEY; Barometer = Soth.-A March, 1976. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2; Crommelin 1; Daumas 1. | |
| LUSNERG, DOMENICUS | misreading for Lusuerg. | Egger 2. | |||
| LUSUERG, ANGELO | Italy, fl.1744-47, MIM | Dividers, 1744 = BRU; Armillary Sphere, 1745 = X; Sundial, 1747 = NYM. | Rome. | Morpurgo 1; Michel 3; Evans 1; RSW. | |
| LUSUERG, DOMINICUS | Italy, fl.1691-1744, MIM SIM | made sundials, mathematical and surveying instruments which can be found in many museums including ADL (1699, 1701, 1716), BM (1694), STU, DRE, KEN, DEU, NYM, FLO, ROM, OXF, PRN (1692), Museum in Bologna (1744), Michel Coll. (1744), NMM, PRA, WHI (1717), P.C. (1723), RSM (1691), etc. | Modena; Rome. | Morpurgo 1; Baillie 1; Italian Inv.; Michel 1 and 3; Daumas 1; Grötzsch 2; Brieux 3; Price 2 and 3; Ward 4; Engelmann 1; NMM 2; Coffeen B; USNM; Evans 1; Wynter and Turner; O. Brown 1; J.A. Bennett 2; A.J. Turner 10; ADL; RSW. | |
| LUSUERG, JACOBUS | Italy, fl.1668-1719, MIM SIM | made sundials, mathematical and surveying instruments which can be found in many museums, including ADL (1672), OXF (1668), BM, FLO, NMM, Liceo Ginnasio, Alatri (1669), MAD, BRU, COO, WHI (1688), USNM, NYM, KEN, ROU, P.C. (1685), etc. | some signatures include "Mutinensis" = Modena. | Modena; Rome. | Bonelli 4; Morpurgo 1; Portuguese Inv.; Price 3; Ward 4; Engelmann 1; Bryden 16; Daumas 1; Baillie 1; NMM 2; Michel 1 and 3; Brieux 3; USNM; J.A. Bennett 2; A.J. Turner 10; ADL; RSW. |
| LUTHER, M. | France, 19th Century, OIM | Telescope, with case = Gersaint, La Rochelle 7/20/96. | Neuchatel. | RSW. | |
| LUTRY, EDMOND | France, OIM | Telescope = La Rochelle 7/22/78. | Paris. | RSW. | |
| LUTTIG, C. | Germany, fl.1844-90, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Protractor with scale = DRE; Half Reflecting Circle = NMM; Surveying Compass with Telescope = Technical Museum, Warsaw. | Lüttig; won prize in 1851 Great Exhibition in London. | Berlin. | NMM 2; Moskowitz 110; O'Mara; G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. |
| LUTZ Y SCHULTZ | Argentina, 19th Century, MIM | Equatorial Sundial = X. | Buenos Aires. | Price 2. | |
| LUTZ, C. | Switzerland, c.1850, MIM | won a prize in the 1851 Great Exhibition in London; watchmaker. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | ||
| LUTZ, ED. | France, fl.1867-74, MIM OIM SIM | Graphometer = USNM; Surveying Cross = USNM; Gregorian Telescope = P.C. | Rue des Noyers, 49 (Bd. St. Germain), Paris. | Calvert 2; USNM; RSW. | |
| LUTZ, JOHAN VALLENTIN | Germany, 1680, MIM | Astrolabe Clock, 1680 = UTO 9/29/75. | Augsburg. | RSW. | |
| LUVATE, DOMINIC | England, fl.1828-34, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(4); Aneroid Barometer = Eldred 7/26/73. | all are signed "D. Luvate Preston"; looking glass maker. | 43 Friargate (1828); 27 Friargate (1834); both in Preston. | Goodison 1; Bell 2; RSW. |
| LUVATTE, D. | see Dominic Luvate. | Goodison 1. | |||
| LUZZANO | France, 19th Century, PHIM | Barometer = STR. | Strasbourg. | RSW. | |
| LYALL | see Hay and Lyall. | ||||
| LYDELL, JAMES | England, c.1686, MIM | compass maker. | London. | Taylor 1(448). | |
| LYETH, A.B. | Sweden, MIM NIM | Compass in binnacle = K. and C. 3/19/75. | Stockholm. | RSW. | |
| LYFORD, G. | England; Russia, c.1730, MIM OIM | Universal Ring Sundial = KEN; Telescope = X. | the sundial is also marked "B. Scott" and "St. Petersburg." | Euclid's Head, near the new Church, Strand, London; St.Petersburg. | Taylor 2(285); Dewhirst; Clay and Court. |
| LYLE, D. | England, 1760, MIM | Volute Compass, 1760 = KEN. | Taylor 2(627a); Chaldecott 1. | ||
| LYMAN, CHESTER SMITH | USA, c.1869, | professor at Yale University; invented wave apparatus made by E.S. Ritchie and Sons. | D.J. Warner 6. | ||
| LYNCH | Ireland, MIM | Surveyor's Compass = RSM; Inclinable Sundial = Christie 11/21/61. | see James Lynch 1 & 2. | Dublin. | RSW. |
| LYNCH AND SON | Ireland, fl.1813-25, MIM | Armillary Sphere = EGE; Garden Sundials = D.(1971), Soth. 10/23/85 (1824); Terrestrial Globe, miniature, 1813 = Soth. 5/27/82. | see James Lynch and Son. | Dublin. | Morrison-Low and Burnett; RSW. |
| LYNCH, GEORGE | Ireland, fl., MIM OIM PHIM | see James Lynch (2) and George Lynch. | 26 Capel Street, Dublin. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | |
| LYNCH, JAMES (1), AND SON | Ireland, fl.1808-25, MIM OIM PHIM | Cuff-type Microscope = EGE. | T.C.; "Mathematical, Optical, Philosophical Instrument Makers to Trinity College and His Majesty's Ordnance"; see James Lynch 1. | 26 Capel Street, Dublin. | Bryden 9; Morrison-Low and Burnett; RSW. |
| LYNCH, JAMES (2) AND GEORGE | Ireland, fl.1840-44, MIM OIM PHIM | opticians, mathematical and philosophical instrument makers to the University and to the Royal Dublin Society. | 26 Capel Street, Dublin. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | |
| LYNCH, JAMES 1 | Ireland, fl.1760-1807, MIM OIM PHIM | Surveyor's Compass = Soth. 11/13/61; Microscope = Wellcome Institute. | partner with Edward Spicer, 1760-72, as Spicer and Lynch, which see; also a dealer. | 26 Capel Street (1784-1807); at the Sign of the Royal Spectacles, Capel Street; both in Dublin. | Taylor 2(743); Calvert 2; Bryden 9; Morrison-Low and Burnett; RSW. |
| LYNCH, JAMES 2 | Ireland, fl.1826-39, MIM OIM PHIM | T.C.; "optician, mathematical and philosophical instrument maker to the Ordnance and Trinity College" (1832). | 26 Capel Street, Dublin. | Bryden 9; Morrison-Low and Burnett. | |
| LYNDEN, JOHANN ANTON | Germany, fl.1580-1604, MIM | Astrolabes = OXF(ICA-274), BRU; Astronomical Plate, 1604 = ZUS; Astronomical Compendium, 1596 = BM; Chalice Sundial, 1594 = LND. | the "Astronomical Plate" may be the astrolabe (ICA-572); the compendium was designed by Christopher Liebfried of Würzburg. | Heilbronn. | Zinner 1; Gunther 1; Price 1 & 3; Ward 4; Michel 2, 3 & 7; Evans 1; ICA 2; Dewhirst; Cousins; RSW. |
| LYNE, FRANCIS | see Francis Hall. | ||||
| LYON 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | South Molton. | Goodison 1. | |
| LYON 2 | Scotland, PHIM | Barometer = D.(1772). | Edinburgh. | John Bell. | |
| LYON, BENEVOLO | MIM | Protractor = P.C.(1965). | RSW. | ||
| LYON, C. | England, c.1823, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Bridlington. | Goodison 1. | |
| LYON, DANIEL M. | USA, c.1850, MIM | Spirit Levels = Craft Auction 5/1/82. | tool maker. | Newark, N.J. | Maine Digest, July, 1982. |
| LYON, HUNTER | Scotland, fl.1793-1803, OIM | optician. | Cross Causeway (1793-95); 118 Nicholson Street (1796 1801); 4 Bristo Street (1801-03); all in Edinburgh. | Bryden 3; Morrison-Low 1. | |
| LYON, JAS. 1 | England, c.1830, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2), Christie-SK 9/23/88 and 10/20/89. | No. 6 Dove Court, Swithin's Lane, Lombard Street, London. | Goodison 1; RSW. | |
| LYON, JAS. 2 | Scotland, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Glasgow. | Goodison 1. | |
| LYON, JON. | England, c.1660, MIM | Sector = NMM-CI/S.11. | London. | NMM 2. | |
| LYON, JOSEPH | England, c.1708, MIM | apprenticed to George Griffith of the Grocers' Company on Oct. 12, 1708. | J. Brown 1. | ||
| LYON, PETER 1 | Scotland, fl.1784-88, MIM NIM OIM | on the Shore, Leith. | Bryden 3. | ||
| LYON, PETER 2 | Scotland, fl.1780-99, OIM | optician. | at the Cross Well (1782); near the Guard (1784); Head old Assembly Close (1786); High Street (1788-90); Bull Turnpike (1794); Castle Hill (1795); Calton Hill (1796-97); Parliament Close (1799); all in Edinburgh. | Bryden 3. | |
| LYONET | France, | designed a microscope. | Daumas 1. | ||
| LYONET, PIERRE | Holland, 1707-89, OIM | made a simple microscope; naturalist. | Nachet. | ||
| LYONS, ABRAHAM | England, fl.1800-01, OIM | 408 Oxford Street, London. | Taylor 2(1176a); Dewhirst. | ||
| LYONS, GEORGE | England, c.1850, OIM | Telescope = Soth.-B 3/2/79. | Bristol. | RSW. | |
| LYONS, MICHAEL | Ireland, 1844, MIM | Moon Dial, slate, 1844 = Dublin Civic Museum. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | ||
| LYTH, A.B. | Sweden, NIM | Marine Compass in binnacle = K. and C. 3/19/75. | Stockholm. | RSW. | |
| LYTH, GEORG WILHELM | Sweden, 1834-1918, MIM NIM | Stockholm. | Pipping 1. |
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