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| Signature | Maker Info | Instruments | Comments | Location | References |
| N. 1 | MIM | Cruciform Sundial, silver = Koller 11/17/75. | signed "N. 46" on the cover. | RSW. | |
| N. 2 | c.1809-19, MIM | Compass, silver, with case = Drouot 4/26/67. | the "N" has a crown over it. | RSW. | |
| N.A. | England, fl.1731-65, | stands for New Astronomer, a pseudonym for William Ross which see ; he invented a type of ring sundial called a Rossisphere in 1733; there is an example at OXF; author. | Taylor 2(222 & 301). | ||
| N.C. | France, 1797, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, cast pewter, 1792 = Nouveau Drouot 5/20/88. | RSW. | ||
| N.D. | Habermel-type Astrolabe = Michel Coll. | Price 2. | |||
| N.G.H. | c.1790, MIM | marked on a cartographic surveying rule signed "K.L.C." (1) under a crown. | Christie-SK 11/27/86. | ||
| N.H. | 1764, MIM | Garden Sundial, 1764 = Den Gamle By, Aarhus. | RSW. | ||
| N.M. 1 | Germany, 1649, MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory, 1649 = Huelsman Coll. | Nikolaus Miller 2. | Nürnberg. | Syndram; RSW. |
| N.M. 2 | USA, 1760?, MIM | Window Sundial, small = D.(1989). | perhaps related to Josiah Miller. | Moskowitz 132. | |
| N.N. | England, 1611, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1611 = Hartshead, Yorkshire. | Hartshead, Yorkshire. | Gatty. | |
| N.V. | Italy, 1853, MIM | Pillar Sundial, wood, 1853 = ADL-W137. | ADL; RSW. | ||
| NACHET ET FILS | France, pre-1851-1881 and 1892 on, OIM | Microscopes = K. & C. 6/21/75, Phillips 5/20/75; etc. | Camille Sébastien Nachet and son; the firm of A. Nachet changed its name back to Nachet et Fils in 1892. | rue Saint-Séverin 17, Paris. | USNM; G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. |
| NACHET, A. | France, fl.1881-92, OIM | Microscope = D.(1989). | successor to Nachet et Fils; the firm changed its name back to Nachet et Fils in 1892. | Paris. | Moskowitz 132. |
| NACHET, CAMILLE SEBASTIEN | France, 1799-1881, OIM | Microscopes = D.(1972), D.(1984); etc. | Camille Sébastien Nachet started business with Vincent Chevalier; established his own firm c.1840; made microscopes. | rue Voltaire (1819); rue Serpente 16; both in Paris. | Daumas 1; Pipping 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; Coffeen F; Moskowitz 104; Brieux; Warner 13. |
| NAFTEL, PAUL | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 2/4/77. | Guernsey. | RSW. | |
| NAGLER, JOHN | USA, fl.1810-30, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = Wachovia Museum, Old Salem, North Carolina. | Winston-Salem, North Carolina. | USNM. | |
| NAHMENS, NAHMEN | Germany, 1704-68, NIM | Octant with Compass = X. | Zinner 1. | ||
| NAIME | misreading for Nairne. | Phillips 9/10/86. | |||
| NAIRN | variant spelling for Nairne. | RSW. | |||
| NAIRNE AND BLUNT | England, fl.1774-93, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | wide range of instruments that may be seen in many museums including FLO, WHI, MLL, COO, BAR, UTR, LEY, SUN, KEN, OXF, CNAM, PMM, Burton Constable, etc. | Edward Nairne and Thomas Blunt 1; Blunt had been apprenticed to Nairne from 1760 to 1771. | 20 Cornhill, London. | Taylor 2(750); Goodison 1; Bell 2; Moskowitz; Wynter; RSW; Dewhirst; Daumas 1; Bonelli 1; J.A.Bennett 1 and 2; Middleton 1. |
| NAIRNE, EDWARD | England, 1726-1806, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | made a wide range of well engraved instruments including; barometers, electrical machines, telescopes, sundials, rules, a mariner's astrolabe (NMM-52), etc.; examples may be seen at ADL, UTR, MLL, MAN, USNM, FLO, NMM, OMM, SWE, HAR, OXF, WHI. | apprenticed to Matthew Loft of the Spectaclemakers' Company on Feb. 2, 1741; free of the Company by Redemption, Jan. 26, 1748; Master of the Company 1759, 1774, 1796-97; took apprentices; partner with Thomas Blunt 1, 1774-93; "Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty"; T.C. | at the Golden Spectacles, Reflecting Telescopes and Hadley's Quadrant, in Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange, London. | Taylor 2(388); O. Brown 1; Calvert 2; Engelmann 1; DNB; DSB; Crawforth 1 & 7; Maddison 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; Goodison 1; J.A. Bennett 1 and 2; A. Stimson 3; Garcia Franco; ADL; RSW. |
| NAPIER, D., AND SON | England, c.1848, NIM | Mariner's Compass = AMST. | patented "Captain's Registering Compass" in 1848. | 8 and 9 Vine Street, York Road, Lambeth. London. | Mörzer Bruyns 1; Chaldecott 3; RGO. |
| NAPIER, JOHN | Scotland, 1550-1617, | Baron Merchiston; published a work on logarithms in 1614 and invented two calculating devices called "Napier's Bones" and a more complicated version called the "Promptuary", in 1617. | Merchiston. | DNB; DSB; G.L'E. Turner 24; Tomash; etc. | |
| NARCAL, FEITA | Brazil, c.1720, NIM | Compass, 1720 = LIM. | Rio de Janeiro. | RSW. | |
| NARCISS, THEODOR AUGUST | see Theodor August Narzis. | RSW. | |||
| NARCY | MIM | Universal Ring Sundial = Soth. 1/22/73 = D.(1997). | modern work; this looks like the work of the forger Williams. | "Paris." | Brieux 4; Coffin 58; RSW. |
| NARRIEN, JOHN | England, fl.1805-25, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | Sectors, ivory and brass = Soth. 12/15/78, Armand 10/11/90; Stick Barometer = D.(1986); Theodolite = D.(1973). | Soth. sector is part of a set of drawing instruments. | 70 St. James's Street, London. | Taylor 2(1186); Wynter and Turner; RSW. |
| NARRIEU, JOHN | misprint for John Narrien. | RSW. | |||
| NARZIS, THEODOR AUGUST | Germany, 1721-73, MIM | Sundial, octagonal, 1766 = ULM. | compass in lid; marked "Stuckjunker." | Ulm. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; RSW. |
| NASH, F.M. | USA, fl.1866-71, MIM SIM | a partner in Blunt and Nichols with Edmund Blunt 2 and John H. Nichols who was Blunt's uncle; later was a partner in Blunt and Co. (1868-71), with William Sinclair Blunt; then on his own, made surveying instruments. | New York, N.Y. | Smart 1. | |
| NASH, JOHN 1 | England, fl.1664-90, MIM | apprenticed to Walter Hayes of the Grocers' Company; free of the Company in 1664; admitted as a Brother to the Clockmakers' Company, Feb. 24, 1668; took apprentices; also sold maps and globes; had some faulty rules seized in 1672. | at the Sign of the Globe, within Aldgate, London. | J. Brown 1 & 3; Taylor 1(310); Clay and Court. | |
| NASH, JOHN 2 | England, c.1717, MIM | apprenticed to William Bennett of the Clockmakers' Company on April 4, 1709; free of the Company, Oct. 7, 1717; J. Brown 1 reported that Nash took over Thomas Clark 1 as an apprentice from Charles Crick 1 of the Grocers' Company on July 16, 1697 though these dates do not agree; it may be that this is John Nash 1, though the dates are off also. | London. | J. Brown 1 & 3. | |
| NASH, REUBEN | USA, 1786, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass, 1786 = Vermont Historical Society. | Benson, Vermont. | USNM. | |
| NASH, THOMAS | England, fl.1717-69, MIM | apprenticed to William Bennett of the Clockmakers' Company on Aug. 10, 1708; free of the Company, Oct. 7, 1717. | London. | J. Brown 3. | |
| NATHAN, ADOLPH | c.1850, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Den Gamle By, Aarhus. | "opticus." | RSW. | |
| NATHAN, ELIAS | England, c.1830, OIM | 1 Old Millgate, London. | Taylor 2(1946). | ||
| NAVARRE, FRANCOIS | France, fl.1760-78, OIM | Telescopes, Gregorian = Auction, Versailles 5/6/79, CNAM, P.C. | in 1760 brevetted "ingénieur Ordinaire en instruments de Physique et de Mathématiqus Privilégié de Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne" elder grandson of Louis XV; worked with Dom Noël. | Quai de l'Horloge, Paris. | Daumas 1; Augarde; RSW. |
| NAYLOR 1 | England, c.1722, PHIM | made weather-glasses. | Black Lion, Longacre, London. | Smart 1. | |
| NAYLOR 2 | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Halifax. | Goodison 1. | |
| NAYLOR, T. | England, c.1800, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Hutchinson-Scott Auctioneers, 6/14/94. | barometer maker. | Lowestoft; Halifax. | Bell 2; RSW. |
| NAZE, JEAN | France, 1553, MIM | Astrolabe, 1553 = Musée, Lyon; Astronomical Table Clock = CLU. | ICA-2000 | Lyon. | Destombes et Brieux; Brieux 3; ICA 2. |
| NEAL, MISTER | England, MIM | globe maker; probably John Neale. | London. | Bedini 8. | |
| NEALE, HENRY | England, fl.1686-95, MIM PHIM | Set of Weights D.(1971); Money Balance = Gabb Coll. = NMM. | T.C.; Moskowitz thought c.1775. | at ye end of St. Bartholomew Lane, near the Royal Exchange, London. | Calvert 2; Taylor 1(446); Moskowitz 102. |
| NEALE, JOHN | England, fl.1743-58, MIM OIM PHIM | Stick Barometer = X; Waywiser = X. | author; watchmaker; made miniature orreries, globes, electrical machines, etc.; often signed "J. Neal"; he attempted to publish John Bevis' Star Atlas in 1750 but went bankrupt. | Leadenhall Street, London. | Taylor 2(389); Goodison 1; Dewhirst; Lattin; Clay and Court; Gingerich 1. |
| NEBEL | France, c.1795, MIM SIM | Graphometers = WHI, MYS, Auction, Honfleur 6/17/79; Sector = P.C.; Folding Square = P.C. | au Butterfield, Paris. | Price 12; Brieux 2; Olivia Brown 1; RSW. | |
| NEEVES, RICHARD | England, fl.1857-60, PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker. | 3 Regent Place, Grays Inn Road, London. | Goodison 1. | |
| NEEVES, WILLIAM | England, c.1838, MIM PHIM | 17 Great St. Andrew Street, London. | Taylor 2(2193). | ||
| NEFF, W.C. AND J. | USA, fl.1848-69, MIM NIM PHIM | manufactured electro-magnetic machines. | Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM. | |
| NEGELEIN, N.G. | Germany, c.1830, MIM | Diptych Sundials, wood and paper = UTR, ADL-N15, OXF, D.(1977), P.C., Delft Sundial Exhibition; Magnetic Compass, small, boxwood = D.(1971). | the magnetic compass has a multi-colored compass rose printed in English. | Nürnberg a Bavaria. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; Evans 1; de Rijk; Giordano 2; Moskowitz 102; ADL; RSW. |
| NEGRATTI, H. | England, c.1839, PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker; possibly Henry Negretti but he is not known at this address. | 2 Dorrington Street, London. | Goodison 1. | |
| NEGRETTI | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | 36 Redcliff Street, Bristol. | Goodison 1. | |
| NEGRETTI AND CO. 1 | England, PHIM | Marine Barometer = Gloucester Museum; Wheel Barometer = Phillips 9/10/86; Stick Barometer = Christie-SK 6/24/88. | Henry Negretti; the barometer at Christie-SK was signed "Negretti & Co., fecit, London." | 19 Leather Lane, London. | Goodison 1; RSW. |
| NEGRETTI AND CO. 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | 35 Pike Street, Plymouth. | Goodison 1. | |
| NEGRETTI AND ZAMBRA | England, 1850-present, MIM OIM PHIM | sundials; telescopes; microscopes; barometers; thermometers; hygrometers; etc. | Henry Negretti and Joseph Warren Zambra became partners in 1850, this continued until the death of Negretti in 1879; the firm was carried on by the sons of Negretti and of Zambra and still exists under the same name; T.C.; "Opticians and Meteorological Instrument Makers to Her Majesty"; patented an improvement for barometers in 1861. | 11 Hatton Garden; 1 Hatton Garden; branch at 122 Regent Street (1862-present); 38 Holborn Viaduct (1870-1941). | G.L'E. Turner 24; W.J. Read; Daumas 1; Moskowitz; Middleton1; Goodison 1; RSW. |
| NEGRETTI AND ZAMORA | England, c.1773, PHIM | Angle Barometer = Christie 4/19/78. | the perpetual calendar on the barometer runs from 1773-1872; this must be a misreading for Negretti and Zambra and the early date taken from the perpetual calendar. | RSW. | |
| NEGRETTI, ENRICO ANGELO LUDOVICO | see Henry Negretti. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(2194); Bell 2. | |||
| NEGRETTI, G. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Liverpool. | Goodison 1. | |
| NEGRETTI, GAETONO | England; USA, fl.1841-52, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | the barometer is signed "G. Negretti, Manchester." | 4 Thomas Street, Manchester (1841); New York, N.Y. (1850-52). | Goodison 1; Warner 5. |
| NEGRETTI, H., AND CO. | England, c.1840, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Christie-Sk 10/20/89. | 19 Leather Lane, London. | RSW. | |
| NEGRETTI, HENRY | Italy; England, 1818-79, MIM OIM PHIM | Magnetic Sundial, brass case = Soth. 11/13/61; Wheel Barometer = KEN; etc. | Enrico Angelo Ludovico Negretti; came to England in 1830; he was apprenticed to Francis Augustus Pizzala 1 in 1838; Read thought he was apprenticed to C. Tagliabue; glassblower, in 1840; Middleton thought he was working with John Ronketti in 1840; worked for M. Pizzi from 1843, and later for his widow; philosophical instrument maker by 1849; formed a partnership with Joseph Warren Zambra in 1850 which continued until Negretti's death in 1879; the firm was carried on by sons of Negretti and of Zambra and still exists under that name. | see NEGRETTI, HENRY (cont.) | |
| NEGRETTI, HENRY (CONT.) | 20 Greville Street (1840); 17 Leather Lane, Holborn (1841-45); 9 Hatton Garden (1849); all in London. | Taylor 2(2194); Goodison 1; Bell 2; Daumas 1; W.J. Read; G.L'E. Turner 24; Middleton 1; RSW. | |||
| NEGRETTI, L., AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Liverpool. | Goodison 1. | |
| NEGRETTI, L., AND SON | England, 19th Century, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Phillips 4/20/83. | Portsmouth. | RSW. | |
| NEGRINI, C. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X (2). | Tenterden. | Goodison 1. | |
| NEHR, F.C. | England, 18th Century, MIM | Armillary Sundial = Magdalen College, Oxford. | Greenwich. | Gunther 2. | |
| NEIL, SIR PAUL | England, c.1650, OIM | telescope maker "of high repute." | USNM; Dewhirst. | ||
| NEILL BROS. | Ireland, fl.1850-63, PHIM | Stick Barometer = VNN. | probably the sons of Robert Neill. | 23 High Street, Belfast. | Morrison-Low and Burnett; RSW. |
| NEILL, JR. AND J. | Ireland, c.1860, NIM | Sextant = Bearne's 1/25/89. | may be Neill Bros., which see. | Belfast. | RSW. |
| NEILL, ROBERT, AND SONS | Ireland, fl.1842-46, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | barometer signed "Neill and Sons." | 25 High Street, Belfast. | Goodison 1; Morrison-Low and Burnett. |
| NEIRNE | misreading for Nairne. | Dewhirst. | |||
| NELLE MESURE | "nouvelle mesure", the new metric measure of the French Revolution. | RSW. | |||
| NELLSON, R. | England, 1738, MIM | Sundial, 1738 = X. | Gatty. | ||
| NELME, LEMUEL DOLE | England, c.1750, | T.C.; dealer in ships' merchandise; etc. | at his office in Exchange Alley, London. | Crawforth 1. | |
| NELSON, JOSEPH | England, fl.1703-08, MIM | supplied all sorts of sundials; a surveyor. | Colchester, Essex. | Taylor 1(541). | |
| NELSON, OLIVER | Ireland, 1771, MIM | Sundial, 1771 = Soth. 3/10/87. | he was "printer to the Honourable City of Dublin." | Dublin. | RSW. |
| NELSON, WILLIAM | Ireland, fl.1830-62, OIM PHIM | Telescope built into a cane = ADL-A56; Marine Barometer = X. | barometer signed "Nelson Dublin"; optician, spectacle maker and jeweler. | 21 Essex Quay (1830-31); 20 Essex Quay (1832); 24 Essex Quay (1833); 37 Lower Ormond Quay (1834-39); all in Dublin. | Bryden 9; Goodison 1; Morrison-Low and Burnett; ADL; RSW. |
| NELSON, WILLIAM H. | England, fl.1840-62, MIM OIM | may be the same as William Nelson or maybe his son. | 37 Lower Ormond Quay (1840-44); 42 Lower Ormond Quay (1845-51); 66 Dame Street (1852-62); all in Dublin. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | |
| NEMES, JOHN | England, fl.1724-53, MIM | Sundials = OXF, AMST; Horizontal Sundial = Soth. 9/20/83; Compass Sundials = Soth. 10/18/74, 10/20/75 and 3/10/87-99, WHI-1192. | apprenticed to his father, Robert, in the Clockmakers' Company in June, 1710; freed as a Brother in the Company, June 18, 1724; the horizontal and compass sundials are signed on the paper compass roses inside the lids of the cases; some of the signatures show as "I. Nemes." | London. | Taylor 2(199); Mörzer Bruyns 1; Gunther 2; Evans 1; Weil 25; Crawforth 8; Baillie 1; Britten; Bryden 16; RSW. |
| NEMES, ROBERT | see John Nemes. | Britten. | |||
| NEMES, T. | England, MIM | Compass Sundials = ADL-W231, D.; Diptych Sundial = Einsiedeln Stift. | Taylor 2(199); Crawforth 8; Weil 25; Zinner 1; ADL; RSW. | ||
| NENZELIUS, OLOF | Sweden, 1728-1804, MIM | clock and instrument maker, amateur. | Lund. | Pipping 1. | |
| NEPHEW, CHARLES | India, 19th Century, MIM | Equatorial Sundial = Soth. 2/25/86. | Calcutta. | RSW. | |
| NEPHEW, CHARLES, AND CO. | India, 19th Century, MIM | Pocket Compass = Soth. 4/27/72; Inclinable Sundial = ADL-N24; Universal Equatorial Sundial = Soth. 12/16/63; Horizontal Sundial = Soth. 12/16/63. | Calcutta. | ADL; RSW. | |
| NEPOS GEMMA FRISIUS | Gualterus Arsenius, which see. | RSW. | |||
| NERICE, BERNARDO | Italy, 1762, MIM | Sundial, brass, on a marble base, 1762 = Goldschmied Coll. = NMM-Caird. | Lucca. | NMM 2. | |
| NESBIT, ALEXANDER | England, MIM | Evans 1. | |||
| NESBITT, JOHN | England, PHIM | Balance, large = D.(1976). | 42 Market Street, Manchester. | RSW. | |
| NESSY | France?, MIM | Sundial = Hayden Planetarium, Boston. | USNM. | ||
| NESTFELL, JOHANN GEORG | Germany, 1694-1762, MIM | Planetaria = Natural History Museum, Vienna (1753), BAM, WUR; Quadrant, (1762) = DEU; Table Sundial = Pommersfelden Schloss. | King said Vienna mechanism was very similar to that in the George Graham tellurian at ADL. | Bamberg; Würzberg (1753). | Maurice 1; H.C. King 2; Michel 3; Zinner 1; ADL; RSW. |
| NETHERWOOD, JOB | England, c.1689, MIM | apprenticed to Clement Foster of the Clockmakers' Company on Dec.16, 1689. | J. Brown 3. | ||
| NETINI, PAULUS CONSTANTINI | Italy, fl.1820-40, MIM | Sundials on papier-maché snuff boxes, 1820 & 1840 = Drecker Coll. | Evans 1. | ||
| NEUHAUS | Austria, c.1800, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = P.C. | Vienna. | RSW. | |
| NEUHOFER UND SOHN | Austria, MIM | Alidade = Technical Museum, Warsaw. | Vienna. | RSW. | |
| NEUMAN, JOHANN-BAPTIST | Austria, 17th Century, MIM | Sundial, gilt-brass = Michel Coll. | Vienna. | Michel 3. | |
| NEUMANN, BALTHASAR | Germany, 1712, MIM | Sundial, 1712 = DEU-2829; Sectors = WUR (1713), P.C. | artillery officer; P.C. sector is architectural. | Price 2; Daumas 1; Zinner 1; RJW; RSW. | |
| NEUSSHART | Germany, 1750, MIM | String-gnomon Sundial, 1750 = ULM. | also marked "P.M.L.P.N." | Ulm. | RSW. |
| NEVE, GUILLIAM DE | Holland, c.1623, PHIM | balance maker; T.C. dated 1623. | Amsterdam. | Soth. 11/16/87. | |
| NEVE, P. | France, c.1820, MIM | Planetarium = Soth. 12/16/63; Planetarium, wood and paper = Soth. 12/17/62. | rue de l'Hirondelle, 22, Paris. | RSW. | |
| NEWALL, R.S. | England, c.1946, MIM | Capuchin-type Sundials = WHI (4). | modern. | Bryden 16. | |
| NEWBERY, WILLIAM | England, c.1610, MIM | apprenticed to Charles Whitwell of the Grocers' Company on Oct. 20, 1610. | J. Brown 1. | ||
| NEWBOND AND BULFORT | England, OIM | Telescope, three-draw = Melun 4/24/83. | London. | RSW. | |
| NEWCOMB AND MANSELL | England, PHIM | Marine Barometer = X; sextant = PC. | Mansell 2. | 35, Wapping Liverpool. | Goodison 1; WEBDB. |
| NEWCOMBE, F. | England, c.1860, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Soth. 12/14/89. | London. | RSW. | |
| NEWDIGATE, FRANCIS | England, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = Weschler 5/22/76. | RSW. | ||
| NEWELL AND BROWNING | USA, c.1803, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich. | probably Joseph Newell and Samuel Browning 1. | Merchants Row, Boston, Mass. (1803). | Smart 1. |
| NEWELL AND SON | USA, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compasses, wood = Andover Historical Society, Mass., Bostonian Society, Old State House, Boston, Mass., P.C. | Andrew and Joseph Newell; the compass card in the private collection is also marked "Callender Scp."; some compass cards signed "N. Hurd Sct." | East end of Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass. | USNM; Smart 1; Rudd; Warner 12. |
| NEWELL, ANDREW | USA, 1749-98, MIM NIM SIM | Surveyor's Compasses, wood = PMS, Philadelphia Maritime Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., P.C., D.; Backstaff = P.C. | "served his time with the late Mr. Dupee"; worked under "the best Masters in London"; Nathaniel Hurd and Joseph Callender engraved the compass cards. | King Street 1 (1773); 61 State Street (1789-96); at the East End of the Market (Faneuil Hall) (1798); all in Boston, Mass. | Bedini 1 & 8; Smart 1; Price 2; Rudd; Giordano 3; D.J. Warner 8 and 12; RSW. |
| NEWELL, CHARLES | USA, 1783-1809, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Surveyor's Compassses = PEA, South Natick Historical Society, Mass. | T.C; son of Andrew Newell. | 11 Merchants Row, East side of the Market, Boston, Mass.(1805). | Bedini 8; Smart 1. |
| NEWELL, JOSEPH | USA, fl.1798-1813, MIM SIM | partner with his father, Andrew Newell, 1798; also a ship chandler; partner with Samuel Browning 1 as Newell and Browning. | East end of Market (1798); Merchants Row (1800); 11 Merchants Row (1805-1813); all in Boston, Mass. | Smart 1. | |
| NEWELL, THEODORE | USA, c.1821, MIM | made several orreries; farmer; amateur astronomer; held a patent on his orrery. | Poultney, Vermont. | Bedini 8. | |
| NEWMAN AND SON | England, c.1851-62, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | John Frederick Newman and his son; taken over by Negretti and Zambra in 1862. | London. | Middleton 1. | |
| NEWMAN, A.J. | England, MIM | Set of Drawing Instruments = Soth.-B 3/2/79. | RSW. | ||
| NEWMAN, ELIZABETH | England, 1694, | apprenticed to Daniel Thomas in the Clockmakers' Company in 1694. | Crawforth 7. | ||
| NEWMAN, GEORGE 1 | England, c.1769, | apprenticed to Robert Tangate 1 in the Joiners' Company on Dec. 5, 1769. | Crawforth 7. | ||
| NEWMAN, GEORGE 2 | England, c.1808, MIM | watch and clockmaker who made the movement in Dec., 1808 for an orrery by Thomas Blunt 1; the movement was later repaired by Henry Voight of Philadephia, Pa.; there is a chance that the two George Newmans are the same man. | Wynter 1. | ||
| NEWMAN, JAMES | England, fl.1793-1827, MIM OIM PHIM | apprenticed to Thomas Newman 1 of the Grocers' Company, who was possibly his father, in 1793; succeeded him c.1800; made barometers and thermometers. | Exeter Exchange, Strand, London. | Goodison 1; Daumas 1; Clay and Court; Taylor 2(1015); Middleton 1. | |
| NEWMAN, JOHN FREDERICK | England, fl.1816-60, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | made many philosophical instruments including barometers, pyrometers electrical machines, also sundials, surveying instruments, rules, etc; examples may be seen at KEN, VEN, USNM, SWE, Royal Institution, etc. | most instruments signed "I. Newman" or "J. Newman"; showed an air pump at the Great Exhibition, London, 1851; he was philosophical instrument maker to the Royal Institution; made instruments for the East India Company; developed a portable barometer in 1833; probably succeeded James Newman; bought out by Negretti and Zambra, 1862; T.C.; see Newman and Son. | No. 7 and 8 Lisle Street, Leicester Square (1816-25); 109 Regent Street; 122 Regent Street (1827-60); all in London. | Taylor 2(1396); Goodison 1; USNM; Price 2; Moskowitz 103; RSW; Evans 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; Chaldecott 3; RGO; Middleton 1. |
| NEWMAN, S. | England, c.1800, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Soth.-Sussex 9/18/86. | 122 Regent Street, London. | RSW. | |
| NEWMAN, THOMAS 1 | England, fl.1759-1800, MIM PHIM | Pantograph = CMY (Cooke Shop). | apprenticed to Tycho Wing of the Grocers' Company on Sept. 5, 1751; free of the Company on Jan. 2, 1759; took apprentices; successor to Heath and Wing; T.C.; took James Newman, possibly his son, as apprentice, 1793; James Newman succeeded him c. 1800. | Essex Street in the Strand (1759); Shoe Lane (1764); Exeter Change, Strand (1788); all in London. | J. Brown 1; Calvert 2; Taylor 2(516); RSW. |
| NEWMAN, THOMAS 2 | England, c.1788, | apprenticed to his father, Thomas Newman 1, of the Grocers' Company, on Nov. 6, 1788. | J. Brown 1. | ||
| NEWMAN, W., AND CO. | India, c.1880, MIM | Universal Equatorial Sundial = Soth. 1/27/75; Augsburg-type Sundial, round = WHI. | Calcutta. | Bryden 16; RSW. | |
| NEWMARCH, LEE | England, 1824, | signature on the back of the compass card of an azimuth compass by Thomas Smith 2. | Hull. | Moskowitz 102. | |
| NEWSUM, BARTHOLOMEW | England, fl.1565-93, MIM | Table Sundial = FIN-223 = P.C. = Christie 6/7/72; Case of Drawing Instruments = BM; Compass in Clock = BM; etc. | sundial maker to Queen Elizabeth I; a variant spelling is "Newsam." | London. | Taylor 1(39); Michel 3; Price 3; Ward 4; Clay and Court; RSW. |
| NEWTON | England, fl.1825-50, MIM PHIM | Stick Barometer = X; Pair of Globes, 1850 = Soth.-B 2/9/72; Orreries = D.(1973), D.(1986)(2); Terrestrial Globes, miniature = ADL-W53, Focke Museum; Celestial Globe = Grimaldi Coll.; Globe = NMM; Orrery, miniature, case = Cranbrook Institute of Science, Mich.; etc. | probably William Newton 2; the ADL globe is signed "Newton's new improved Pocket Globe." | 66 Chancery Lane, Fleet Street, London. | Calvert 2; Grimaldi; Coffeen F; Wynter 1; Yonge; ADL; RSW. |
| NEWTON AND BERRY | England, 1831, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1830 = Christie-SK 11/27/86; Terrestrial Globes, miniature, 1831 = Soth. 9/20/83 and 4/18/88; Terrestrial Globe, in box, 1831 = Soth. 1/27/75; etc. | successors to J. and W. Newton; succeeded by Newton Son and Berry. | 66 Chancery Lane, London. | Taylor 2(1397); RSW. |
| NEWTON AND CO. | England, fl.1861- 85, MIM OIM PHIM | Stick Barometer = Phillips 2/14/79; Barometers = Christie 10/26/72, and 12/6/78 (No-433); Inclinometer = WHI; Telescopes, refracting = D.(1972), Soth.-WS 10/18/83; Microscopes = D.(1975), Christie 4/3/85; Sextant, pocket = Soth. 9/20/83; Dumpy Level = Christie 12/18/74; Gyroscopes = Christie 4/9/75, Soth. 3/10/87; Vacuum Pump = Christie-SK 4/17/86; Inclinable Sundial = Phillips 2/14/79; Terrestrial Globe, miniature = Soth. 7/7/78; etc. | succeeded Newton and Son; T.C.; "Opticians and Globe Makers to the Queen." | 66 Chancery Lane; 3 Fleet Street near Temple Bar; both in London. | G.L'E. Turner 24; Dewhirst; Calvert 2; Crawforth 1; Moskowitz 122; Taylor 2(1397); Olivia Brown 1; RSW. |
| NEWTON AND SON | England, fl.1840-61, MIM | Terrestrial Globes = H. Ford Museum, Mich (1840), Rutgers U. Library, N.J. (1844); P.C. (2), Phillips 7/20/83 (1845), Maria Mitchell House, Nantucket, Mass. (1849), USNM (1852); Terrestrial Globes, miniature = Soth. 7/7/78, Phillips 4/20/83; Celestial Globes = D.(1974)(1845), Maria Mitchell House (1847), Cambridge Geological School (1861); Pair of Globes on stands with compasses = Christie 4/3/85; Orreries = Soth. 1/27/75, Bonhams 12/4/81; etc. | John and William (2) Newton; one terrestrial globe is marked "Newtons New and Improved Terrestrial Globe. Published by Newton and Son"; T.C. | 66 Chancery Lane, London. | Taylor 2(1397); Dewhirst; Calvert 2; Crawforth 1; Wynter 1; Wynter and Turner; USNM; Olivia Brown 1; Yonge; RSW. |
| NEWTON AND SONS | England, c.1845, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, miniature = Christie-SK 11/27/86. | Chancery Lane, London. | Wynter and Turner; RSW. | |
| NEWTON BROS. | England, NIM OIM | Sextant = D.(1976); Telescope = Christie-SK 4/14/89. | telescope marked "Impd. Day or Night." | Hull. | RSW. |
| NEWTON SON AND BERRY | England, fl.1830-61, MIM | Celestial Globe, miniature = Phillips 10/20/82; Pocket Globe = Soth. 5/6/69; Terrestrial Globes = D.(1987) (1836), Chicago Historical Society, State College, Framingham, Mass.; Celestial Globes = D.(1989) (1839), P.C. (1838). | the pocket globe was misread as Newton Sons and Berry; the celestial globe has constellations shown as mathematical instruments, etc.; succeeded Newton and Berry; became Newton and Co. | 66 Chancery Lane, London. | Taylor 2(1397); Wynter and Turner; Maine Antique Digest, June, 1987; Moskowitz 132; Yonge; RSW. |
| NEWTON, B., SON AND BERRY | England, 1830, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1830 = Bracketts 4/27/90. | probably misreading for "Newton, Son and Berry." | ATD 4/21/90. | |
| NEWTON, E.T. | England, c.1830, MIM SIM | Telescopic Mining Transits = P.C. (1982), P.C. (1984); Surveying Instrument = Soth. 10/8/71; Altitude Theodolite = Phillips 4/20/83; Sundial = D.(1974); Surveying Compass = X. | the altitude theodolite and the sundial are marked "Camborne"; the rest are marked "St. Day, Cornwall"; T.C.; "Successor to the Maker" (William Wilton). | Cambourne; St. Day; both in Cornwall. | Bryden 9; Crawforth 4; Rienitz; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. |
| NEWTON, E.T., AND SON | England, c.1860, MIM SIM | Theodolite = P.C. (1987). | Camborne, Cornwall. | RSW. | |
| NEWTON, F.M. | England, c.1850, OIM PHIM | Stick Barometer = Soth. 10/19/87. | optician; probably a retailer of barometers. | Leicester. | RSW. |
| NEWTON, ISAAC | England, 1643-1727, MIM OIM | Wall Sundial = Wolsthorpe, Lincolnshire; Reflecting Telescope = Royal Society. | scientist; astromomer; author; F.R.S.; designed and made prototype instruments; constructed a seven mirror burning glass. | Wolsthorpe, Lincolnshire; Trinity College, Cambridge. | Taylor 1(299) and 2(97); DNB; DSB; Gatty; Price 2; USNM; Spargo 1; I. Bernard Cohen 3; G.L'E. Turner 24; Genuth 2. |
| NEWTON, J. AND W. | England, fl.1815-20, MIM | Celestial Globe = Bowes Museum (1804); Pair of Globes, 1820 = P-B 3/4/39; Terrestrial Globes = Bearnes 9/16/87 (15", 1815), H. Ford Museum, Mich. (1820). | John and his son William Newton; Ford Museum marked "Newton's New Improved Terrestrial Globe manufactured by J. and W. Newton." | No. 66 Chancery Lane, London. | Taylor 2(1397); Wynter and Turner; Yonge; RSW. |
| NEWTON, JAMES | England, 1810-68, | surely John Newton, which see; some miniature terrestrial globes with cases, marked "Newton's New and Improved Terrestrial Pocket Globe", were thought, incorrectly, by Syndram and Yonge, to be by James Newton; dated 1817-18 at Huelsmann Coll., H. Ford Museum, Mich. VNN and P.C.; celestial globes are at State College, Framingham, Mass., Shelburne Museum, Vt. | No. 66 Chancery Lane, London. | Syndram; Yonge. | |
| NEWTON, JOHN | England, fl.1783-1818, MIM | Terrestrial Globes, miniature, 1817 = Phillips 7/20/83, Soth. 10/19/82, D.(1981); Celestial Globe, 1818 = Peron et Corsy, Melun 6/10/79; Pocket Globes, 1817 = Soth. 10/21/74; Orreries = Soth. 10/21/74 and 12/3/76; Sector, ivory = D.(1972); etc. | brother-in-law of Edward Baker; globes dated 1783 were redrawn from Hill's 1754 plates, signed "Palmer and Newton 1783", a later edition was signed "J. Newton 1783"; T.C.; Palmer and Newton, c.1783; Newton and Son (William 2); J. and W. Newton; Newton, Son and Berry, 1838; see James Newton. | No. 128 at the Globe and Sun in Chancery Lane, Fleet Street; No. 56 and No. 66 Chancery Lane, Temple Bar; 3 Fleet Street; all in London. | Taylor 2(1397); Wynter 1; Moskowitz 122; Crawforth 1; Krogt 2; Wynter and Turner; Millburn 11; RSW. |
| NEWTON, THOMAS | England?, fl.1769-96, MIM | Sextant, 1769 and Quadrant, 1796 = Wadsworth Atheneum, Conn. | there may be more than one sextant. | USNM. | |
| NEWTON, W. AND F. | England, c.1830, MIM | Compass, wood = D.(1981); Sundial = P.C. | 3 Fleet Street, London. | Coffeen I; USNM. | |
| NEWTON, W. LEIGH | England, c.1830, PHIM | Kaleidoscope = Soth. 3/10/87. | RSW. | ||
| NEWTON, W.E. AND F. | England, 19th Century, OIM | Microscope = Phillips 9/10/86. | RSW. | ||
| NEWTON, W.E. AND K. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Temple Bar, Fleet Street, London. | Goodison 1. | |
| NEWTON, WILLIAM 1 | England, c.1690, | Benjamin Owen, an apprentice, was turned over to Newton, c.1687 from Isaac Webb of the Clockmakers' Company. | J. Brown 3. | ||
| NEWTON, WILLIAM 2 | England, 1840, MIM | Celestial Globe = D.(1974). | marked "Newtons new and Improved Celestial Globe, calculated for 1840"; son of John Newton; see J. and W. Newton; Newton and Son; Newton Son and Berry. | London. | Wynter 1. |
| NEWTON, WILLIAM, AND SON | England, c.1851, | exhibited in the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. | 66 Chancery Lane and 3 Fleet Street, London. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | |
| NHOLDER, T. | misreading for T.N. Holderich, which see. | Zinner 1; Hamilton 1; Findlay Sale. | |||
| NICCOLLSON, JOHN | England, c.1629, | apprenticed to Thomas Brown 1 in the Joiners' Company on June 30, 1629. | Crawforth 7. | ||
| NICHO, P. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Liverpool. | Goodison 1. | |
| NICHOL | England, 1717, NIM | Nocturnal, boxwood, 1717 = TIM. | the name might be "Nicholas"; the index is at April 27. | RSW. | |
| NICHOLAS | see Nichol; might be first name on boxwood nocturnal, 1717, at TIM; correction table on the reverse. | sSW. | |||
| NICHOLL, ISAAC | England, c.1681, MIM | apprenticed to Withers Cheney of the Clockmakers' Company on March 8, 1675; free of the Company, March 22, 1681. | J. Brown 3. | ||
| NICHOLLS, SUTTON | England, fl.1692-1731, MIM | made 9-inch terrestrial and celestial globes. | near Weaver's Arms, by the Postern in London Wall, London. | Taylor 1(477). | |
| NICHOLSON | England, fl.1787-1802, MIM PHIM | made four-foot sliding Gunter's scales, sectional log-scales and hydrometers; see Margetts and Nichlson. | London. | Taylor 2(876). | |
| NICHOLSON, BARTHOLOMEW | England, c.1711, | apprenticed to John Urings 1 in the Joiners' Company on April 17, 1711. | Crawforth 7. | ||
| NICHOLSON, PETER | England, 1765-1846, | invented a cyclograph and other drawing instruments; teacher; author. | London. | Taylor 2(877). | |
| NICHOLSON, WILLIAM | England, 1753-1815, | invented a hydrostatic balance in 1784; scientist; author. | Soho, London. | Taylor 2(753); Multhauf 1; G.L'E. Turner 24. | |
| NICKELSEN, JENS | Denmark?, 1763, | marked on the mirror box of a 1763 octant signed "Beneeden het Lohat", in the Roussel Sale, item No.81; see Beneeden. | Michel 3; RSW. | ||
| NICKERSON AND BAXTER | USA, NIM | Compass = MYS. | Boston, Mass. | RSW. | |
| NICOLA, P. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Liverpool. | Goodison 1. | |
| NICOLAI, GUILIELMUS | France, fl.1603-26, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, 1603 and Celestial Globe, 1626 = Chicago Historical Society. | manuscript. | Lyons; Avignon. | Yonge. |
| NICOLAUS DE CUSA | Germany, 1401-64, MIM | Celestial Globe = CUS. | Nicolaus Krebs; author; cardinal. | Cues. | Zinner 1; Weil 2(6); Hartmann. |
| NICOLE | France, 1742, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, pewter, 1742 = R. Wiener Coll., Nancy. | Nancy. | Boursier. | |
| NICOLLET | France, c.1738, OIM | workman for Passemant; continued the shop with Ollivier, Passemant's brother-in-law. | au Louvre. | Daumas 1. | |
| NICOLOSIO, IOA. BAPTISTA | Italy, MIM | Terrestrial Globe = Vatican. | Price 2. | ||
| NIDERMAYER, JOHAN-FRANZ | Austria, c.1710, MIM | Perpetual Calendars = Basserman-Jordan Coll., Soth.-PB pre-1980. | Salzburg. | Michel 3; RSW. | |
| NIEUWELANT, JAN. | Belgium, 1572, MIM | Astrolabe, 4 tympans, 1572 = Plantin (1572). | Plantin's account also mentioned "cross dials." | Louvain. | Michel 2 and 3. |
| NIEUWENHUIS, LAMBERTUS | Holland, 1741-1810, | friend of and collaborator with Eise Eisinga. | Enschede. | Rooseboom 1. | |
| NIGHTINGALE, PETER | see Petrus Philomena de Dacia. | RSW. | |||
| NIKHEL, JOSEPH | France?, 1702, MIM | Wall Sundial, 1702 = Ottingue. | Ottingue. | Rohr 2. | |
| NIKOMEDES | Greece, 1st Century A.D., MIM | Spherical Sundial = Archaeological Museum, Kavalla, Greece. | Gibbs 1. | ||
| NIMBLETT | USA?, c.1790, MIM | Dividers = Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier. | USNM. | ||
| NIMS | USA, c.1850, MIM | see Moore and Nims; globe makers. | Troy, N.Y. | RSW. | |
| NIMS, H.B., AND CO. | USA, c.1858, MIM | Terrestrial Globe = USNM. | "Improved Globe Boston." | Troy, N.Y. | Yonge. |
| NISSEN, JULIUS | Denmark, c.1851, PHIM | Stick Barometers = NOR, Den Gamle By, Aarhus | exhibited an air pump at the Great Exhibition, London, 1851. | Copenhagen. | G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. |
| NIXON, J. | England, c.1820, NIM PHIM | Sextant = D.(1973); Octant = USNM; Wheel Barometer = Christie-SK 5/15/96. | barometer signed "Nixon 75 Crombies Street, Commercial Road East." | Commercial Road, London. | USNM; RSW. |
| NO, D. IO. | France, 1710, MIM | see Dom Joseph Noto. | Brophy. | ||
| NOAKES, J. | England, c.1820, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | signature is "Noakes Burwash." | Burwash. | Goodison 1; Baillie 1. |
| NOBERT, FRIEDRICH ADOLPH | Germany, 1806-81, OIM | microscope maker; designed a dividing engine; showed at the Great Exhibition, London, 1851. | Barth, Pomerania, Prussia. | Pipping 1; G.L'E. Turner 24. | |
| NOBLE, JOHN | England, fl.1810-20, OIM | Telescope = DeLuca 8/1/87. | RSW. | ||
| NOBLE, NATHANIEL | England, fl.1627, MIM | above St. Clement's Church, towards the May Pole in the Strand, London. | Taylor 1(156); Evans 1. | ||
| NOBLE, PHILANDER | USA, 1772-1845, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass, 1839 = P.C. | silversmith; clockmaker. | Westfield, Mass. | Smart 1; USNM. |
| NOBLET, J.F. | England, 1830, MIM | Compass, 1830 = Musée Lombard, Geneva. | RSW. | ||
| NODEN, JNO. | England, fl.1826-28, PHIM | barometer maker. | 10 Charles Street, Hatton Garden, London. | Goodison 1. | |
| NODOS | France, c.1760, OIM | Microscope = Bernard Coll. | "fournisseur du roi." | Paris. | Daumas 1. |
| NOEL, DOM NICOLAS | France, 1712-83, OIM | Dom Nicolas Noël; Benedictine; made telescopes with Navarre. | St. Germain des Prés; la Muette, Passy. | Daumas 1. | |
| NOLF, PIETER | Holland, c.1597, MIM | Universal Equatorial Sundial = P.C. | Rooseboom 1; MADEX. | ||
| NOLLET, JEAN-ANTOINE | France, 1700-70, PHIM | Abbé Nollet; a professor who made a large number of philosophical instruments; he had an early interest in electricity; mounted a terrestrial globe in 1728, now at the NMM; technical assistant to Réaumur, 1734; visited London, 1734; F.R.S. | Paris. | Daumas 1; MADEX; DSB; NMM 2; A.J. Turner 10. | |
| NOLLI, J.B., AND CO. | Scotland, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Perth. | Goodison 1. | |
| NOLLI, S., COMOLI AND CO. | Scotland, c.1780, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 2/4/77. | Edinburgh. | RSW. | |
| NOLSON, JOHN | England, 1689, | apprenticed to Daniel Quare 1 in the Clockmakers' Company in 1689. | J. Brown 3. | ||
| NOONE, THOMAS | England, 1669, MIM | Evans 1. | |||
| NOOR, F.W. | Denmark, 19th Century, PHIM | Stick Barometer, No.353 = Den Gamle By, Aarhus. | "Mechanius et Opticus." | Kongens Nytorr. | RSW. |
| NOORDBERGH, PIETER, JR. | Holland, 18th Century, NIM | Crown Compass = RIJ; Compass = Schiffer-Gesellschaft, Lübeck. | Rotterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | |
| NOORDIJK, H. | Holland, 1753-1828, MIM NIM | Cross-staves = AMST (1805), P.C. (1804); Slide Rule, 1810 = Historic Museum, Amsterdam. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 and 2. | |
| NOOTH, DR. JOHN MERVIN | England, 1737-1828, PHIM | Nooth Apparatus = KEN, Cragside, Burton Constable, Petworth. | desgned chemical apparatus. | E. Hall; G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | |
| NORBERT | misreading for Friedrich Adolph Nobert. | USNM. | |||
| NORDBORG, OL. | Sweden, 1723, MIM | Garden Sundial, 1723 = Ost India Hus, Goteborg. | Upsteld. | RSW. | |
| NORDEN, ROBERT | misreading for Morden. | Evans 1. | |||
| NOREDON, JOHN | see John Noseda. | Fennell. | |||
| NOREEN, D. | Sweden, PHIM | Stick Barometer = NOR. | Stockholm. | RSW. | |
| NORETTI AND ABATTI | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | ||
| NORIE AND CO. | England, fl. 1816-39, MIM NIM | Sextants = MYS, LIM; Octant = Marine Museum, Horten, Norway; Quadrants = PEA, SUN; Gunter Sliding Rule = D.(1996). | John William Norie. | Navigation Warehouse, Leadenhall St., London. | American Neptune, Jan., 1975; Coffeen 55; Clifton 1; RSW. |
| NORIE AND WILSON | England, c.1800, NIM | Octant = Nat'l Museum of Canada; Sextant = Hart Nautical Museum, MIT; Compass = LIM. | John William Norie and C. Wilson. | 156 Minories, London. | USNM; RSW. |
| NORIE COMPANY | England, c.1830, NIM | Sextant = Soth. 7/10/67. | surely Norie and Co. | London. | RSW. |
| NORIE, J.W., AND CO. | England, c.1819, NIM | Octants = AMST, MYS, Whaling Museum, Nantucket, Mass., Soth. 7/10/67 & 3/19/73, Auction Melun 11/5/78, P.C.(1977); Sextants = New London County Historical Society, Conn., Hart Maritime Museum, MIT. | John Wiliam Norie; Norie bought out the firm of David Steel, nautical publishers, in 1819; by 1937 the firm had become Imray, Norie and Wilson, Ltd. | London. | USNM; Mörzer Bruyns 1; Taylor 2(1019); Witt; RSW. |
| NORIE, JOHN WILLIAM | England, 1772-1843, NIM | T.C.; author; used the figure of a little midshipman as his shop sign; may have been only a retailer. | Naval Academy, Navigational Warehouse, 157 Leadenhall Street, London. | Taylor 2(1019); Pipping 1; Lefkowicz 6, 1977; C.N. Robinson. | |
| NORIEGA, F. | Spain, 19th Century, PHIM | Balance = Soth. 6/21/76. | Madrid. | RSW. | |
| NORMAN, C. | Sweden, 1787, MIM | Almanac on snuff box, 1787 = D.(1995). | Runic calendar. | Coffeen 51. | |
| NORMAN, JOHN | England, c.1846, | microscopic objects and supplies. | 178 City Road, London. | USNM. | |
| NORMAN, ROBERT | England, c.1550-1604, MIM | Variation Compass = X. | invented a dip needle, c.1576, to measure the vertical component of magnetic force; the compass is illustrated in William Borough's book; author, compass maker. | Ratcliffe, London. | Taylor 1(29); Michel 3; Evans 1; Dewhirst; G.L'E. Turner 24; Clay and Court; USNM; J.A. Bennett 2. |
| NORRIEN | misreading for Narrien. | Wynter and Turner. | |||
| NORRIS AND PETERS | NIM | Sextant, vernier = MYS. | RSW. | ||
| NORRIS, J. | England, PHIM | Barometer and Thermometer = K. and C. 12/15/72. | Brighton. | RSW. | |
| NORRY, N. | France, 1620, MIM | Britten. | |||
| NORRY, PIERRE | France, fl.1644-79, MIM | Sundial, string-gnomon, oval = Phillips 9/16/81; Sundial, string-gnomon, octagonal, 1644 = Ecouen (CLU-18537); Sundials, octagonal, silver = Barnett Coll. (1649), Soth. 3/17/38; Butterfield-type Sundial, 1679 = OXFB-70; Horizontal Sundials = MERC, Lempertz 6/14/76, Libert et Castor 4/28/82, Soth. 2/25/86. | the dials are usually signed "Norry" but sometimes spelled "Nory"; Michel thought that Norry moved to Paris about 1679. | Gisors; Paris (c.1679). | Hamilton 1; Michel 3; RSW. |
| NORTH, FRANCIS, BARON GUILFORD | England, c.1670, | invited to become a F.R.S, but declined; taught Henry Wynne and Henry Jones how to make barometers. | Middleton 1; A.J. Turner 10. | ||
| NORTH, LUKE | England, 1710, NIM | Nocturnal, boxwood, 1710 = LEY; Nocturnal, pearwood = FIN. | is this the same instrument? | Taylor 2(98); RSW. | |
| NORTHEN, EDWARD | England, fl.1830-42, OIM PHIM | partner with his father, Richard Northen, before 1834; succeeded his father in 1842; made barometers. | 46 Lowgate (pre-1834); 50 Lowgate (1835-42); both in Hull. | Goodison 1. | |
| NORTHEN, RICHARD | England, fl.1790-1841, MIM OIM PHIM | Microscope = Christie-SK 12/1/83; Drawing Instrument Set = WHI. | also a barometer maker; took his son Edward as a partner before 1834. | Lowgate (1790-91); 46 Lowgate (1803-34); 50 Lowgate (1835-41); all in Hull. | Taylor 2(878); Goodison 1; RSW. |
| NORTHEN, RICHARD, AND SON | England, 1830-45, MIM OIM PHIM | Wheel Barometer = D. | watch, clock and barometer makers; the son was probably Edward Northen; the barometer was marked "46 Lowgate, Hull"; the firm was succeeded by W. White 2, c.1845. | 46 Lowgate (pre-1834); 50 Lowgate (1835-41); both in Hull. | Goodison 1. |
| NORTON AND TAGLIABUE | USA, 1847, PHIM | received a diploma of excellence for barometers and thermometers at the Fair of the American Institute, 1847. | 240 Water Street, New York N.Y. | USNM. | |
| NORTON, ELIJAH | USA, fl.1817-37, MIM OIM | Surveyor's Compass = Division of Archives and History, University of the State of New York, Albany. | 64 Whitesboro' Street (1817); 128 Genesee Road (1833); both in Whitesborough; Utica, N.Y. (1837). | Smart 1. | |
| NORTON, JOHN | England, fl.1803-07, MIM | described himself as a MIM; patented a new mill and a pump. | Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane, London. | Taylor 2(1188). | |
| NORTON, ROBERT 1 | England, fl.1590-1635, | designed a "cosmodelite", a complicated, all-purpose instrument. | The Tower, London. | Taylor 1(84). | |
| NORTON, ROBERT 2 | England, c.1845, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 12/13/88. | Stamford. | RSW. | |
| NORY, PIERRE | see Pierre Norry. | RSW. | |||
| NOSEDA, J. AND P. | England, c.1830, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Phillips 12/2/87. | Walsall. | RSW. | |
| NOSEDA, JOHN | Ireland, fl.1774-79, PHIM | Barometer = X. | Belfast. | Fennell; Morrison-Low and Burnett. | |
| NOSEDON | see Noseda. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | |||
| NOT., JOSEPH | Germany, | see Dom Joseph Noto. | RSW. | ||
| NOTO, DOM JOSEPH | Germany, 1710, MIM | Astronomical Compendium, wood, 1710 = P.C.; Altitude Sundial = OXF (1785); Sundial, small = LAW-304. | the compendium is signed "D. Io. No."; the LAW sundial is signed "Joseph Not."; the Oxford dial is signed "Ame D: Joseph Not:° Pennica." | Penig, Saxony. | Brophy 1; RSW. |
| NOURRY, JEAN | France, c.1671, MIM | Inclinable Sundial = OXF; Equatorial Sundial, silver, 1671 = MADEX-108 = Caird Coll. = NMM; Equatorial Sundial = MADEX-92; Horizontal Sundial = History of Science Museum, Geneva; Sundials, octagonal = MADEX-128 and D. | the dealer's sundial was marked "Paris", the others, "Lyon." | Lyon; Paris. | Maddison 5; Brieux 2; Evans 1; RSW. |
| NOVATI, BORDESSA AND EATON | England, fl.1853-54, PHIM | made barometers and thermometers; became Bordessa and Eaton in 1855. | 54 Exmouth Street, London. | Goodison 1. | |
| NOY, JOHN | see John Noyes. | J. Brown 1. | |||
| NOY, WILLIAM | England, c.1762, MIM | see William Noyes. | J. Brown 1. | ||
| NOYES, JOHN | England, c.1789, MIM PHIM | Stick Barometer = X; Wheel Barometer = X. | apprenticed to Richard Rust of the Grocers' Company on March 7, 1782; free of the Company Nov. 5, 1789; son of William Noyes. | Grocers Hall, Poultry, London. | J. Brown 1. |
| NOYES, WILLIAM | England, c.1762, MIM | father of John Noyes; apprenticed to James Crick in the Grocers' Company on Aug. 7, 1754; free of the Company, April 6, 1762. | London. | J. Brown 1. | |
| NOZZI | see Comoli and Nozzi. | Goodison 1. | |||
| NUGENT, PATRICK ROONEY | England; Nova Scotia, fl.1786-98, MIM NIM | Nugent was awarded patents for a steering azimuth compass and for modifications to the octant and sextant; appointed Deputy Surveyor General of Cape Breton, 1786-87, and acting Surveying General in 1796. | St. Pancras, Middlesex; Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia (1786-87); Grey's Inn, Middlesex (1794); Cape Breton Island (1796); London (1798). | R.C. Brooks. | |
| NUNEZ, PEDRO | Portugal, 1542, | wrote many books on navigation; invented the "nonius" scale for dividing the quadrant; this was a series of concentric arcs, the outer divided into 90 parts, the second into 89 parts, the third into 88 parts and so on to the innermost arc which was divided into 46 parts; the alidade could thus read to within 30" of arc; Tycho Brahe was the only one to make use of the idea, but not very successfully. | Daumas 1. | ||
| NUTZ, L.N. | c.1830, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass, with vernier = P.C. | RSW. | ||
| NYE, EDMUND | England, c.1830, MIM | Floating Sundial, Porter-type = Christie-SK 8/20/87. | Tunbridge Wells. | RSW. | |
| NYSTROM | Sweden, c.1760, MIM | Lund? | Pipping 1. | ||
| NYSTROM, J.W. | USA, c.1851, MIM | Calculating Machine = USNM. | patented in 1851. | Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM. |
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