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| Signature | Maker Info | Instruments | Comments | Location | References |
| BAILLE AINE ET NEVEU | France, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Bretaudiere et Raynaud, Chalon-sur-Saône 6/23/79. | Baille Aîné et Neveu. | RSW. | |
| BALBRECK FILS AINE | France, MIM PHIM | Orographe Schrader = CNAM. | Balbreck fils aîné; surveying instrument to draw elevation and location of mountains. | Paris. | Delehar 8. |
| BANCE AINE | France, MIM | Diptych Sundial, wood = Soth. 10/21/74. | Bance Aîné. | Paris. | RSW. |
| BARADELLE L'AINE | France, 1752-94, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | Graphometer, 1782 = Versailles 5/6/79; Cam-type Sundial in gold watch case = D.(1985); Spherical Level = Libert et Castor 4/28/82; Equatorial Sundial, gold = NMM; Pair of Globes, wood = Schuhmann Sale-96; Surveying Cross = ADL-W193; Mining Instrument Set = P.C.; Instument Set (1788) = P.C. | Baradelle L'aîné; Jean-Louis-Jacques Baradelle, fl.1774-94; Augarde thought him Nicolas-Alexandre Baradelle, c.1761; made nine nautical and mathematical instruments for Courtanvaux. | Rue Dauphine, Paris. | Courtanvaux; Daumas 1; NMM 2; Philips; A.J. Turner 10; ADL; Augarde; RSW. |
| BARADELLE LAINE | France, MIM | Astronomical Ring = Drouot 4/7/87; Sundial = TIM (1987). | misinscribed; should read "Baradelle L'aîné." | Paris. | RSW. |
| BASTIEN L'AINE | France, 1842, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, 1842 = BOM 3/28/06-556. | Bastien L'aîné. | Rue St André des Arts, 60, Paris. | RSW. |
| BILLAUX L'AINE | France, c.1787, PHIM | made physical apparatus; also spelled Billeau and Billiaux; Billaux l'Aîné. | Paris. | Daumas 1; Nachet. | |
| CASTLEMAINE, EARL OF | England, | see Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine. | Bryden 11; Gunther 3; Taylor 1(402, 406). | ||
| CHARLET AINE | France, c.1850, NIM | Octant = MYS. | Charlet aîné; "Opticien." | Le Havre. | Preuss and Treworgy. |
| CHEVALIER AINE | France, c.1830, PHIM | Dark Mirror = Nouveau Drouot 5/20/88. | Chevalier aîné; "Ingénieur Opticien"; Vincent-Jacques-Louis Chevalier, which see; see also "Vt. Chevalier l'aîné." | No. 69 Quai de l'Horloge au miscroscope achromatique, Paris. | RSW. |
| CHEVALIER L'AINE PERE ET FILS, VINCENT | France, c.1830, MIM | Drawing Set = D.(1997). | Vincent Chevalier l'aîné père et fils; son was Charles-Louis Chevalier; T.C. | Au Microscope Achromatique, No. 69 Quai de l'Horloge à Paris. | Coffeen 56. |
| CHEVALIER L'AINE, VINCENT | France, 1770-1841, | Beam Compass Set = D.(1997). | Vincent Chevalier l'aîné; see Vincent-Jacques-Louis Chevalier; sometimes signed "Vt. Chevalier l'aîné" or "Vinc't Chevalier l'aîné." | Paris. | Moskowitz 119; Coffeen 58. |
| DEFORGES L'AINE | France, 1744, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial, marble, 1744 = ADL-M328. | "Deforges l'aîné fecit." | tools, stars, comet, etc, carved in relief and colored, on the sides; owned by Heilbronner. | Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. |
| DELVEDEZ AINE | France, c.1810, NIM | Holland Circle = P.C. | Delvedez Aîné. | Clermont. | Brieux 1; Wheatland 3. |
| FASTRE AINE | France, 1849, PHIM | Barometer, Fortin-type = CNAM. | Fastré aîné. | Quai des grands Augustins 63, Paris. | Middleton 1. |
| FONTAINE, DE | England, c.1800, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-S 1/25/89. | RSW. | ||
| FONTAINEMOREAU, PIERRE ARMAND | Scotland, c.1844, | Le Comte de Fontainemoreau; he invented a new type of barometer. | Skinner's Place, Sise Lane, Edinburgh? | Practical Mechanic and Engineer's Magazine, Vol.IV, p.56. | |
| GEMMA FRISIUS, RAINER | Belgium, 1508-55, MIM | Celestial Globes, 1537 = Zerbst Schlossmuseum, NMM. | doctor; mathematician; teacher at the U. of Louvain; uncle of the Arsenius brothers; invented the radio astronomico; Zerbst globe signed "Faciebant Gemma Frisius medicus ac mathematicus, Gaspar a Myrica et Gerardus Mercator Rupelmundanus anno a partu virg 1537". name means "Gemma from Friesland"; pupil of Apianus. | Louvain. | Zinner 1; Van Ortroy 2; Maddison 1 and 2; Michel 2 and 3; DSB; Baillie 1; Taylor 4; NMM 2; De Smet 1 & 2; A.J. Turner 10. |
| LAFONTAINE | France, 19th Century, MIM | Cannon Sundial, miniature = D.(1988). | 18 Galerie Monpensier, Palais Royal, Paris. | RSW. | |
| MARKDAINEL, JOHN | England, c.1718, | apprenticed to John Urings 1 in the Joiners' Company, Nov. 11, 1718. | Crawforth 7. | ||
| MARTIGNONI L'AINE | France, c.1840, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Drouot Richelieu 4/28/88. | Martignoni l'aîné. | Mans. | RSW. |
| MENARD, GUILLAUME, L'AINE | France, fl.1663-91, OIM | Guillaume Ménard l'aîné; made microscopes and telescopes; worked with Philippe-Claude Le Bas as Le Bas et Ménard; worked with Chapotot to make the binocular telescope for Chérubin. | Quay de l'Horloge-du-Palais, à l'enseigne du Bon Pasteur, Paris. | Daumas 1. | |
| MITAINE | France, c.1855, MIM | Equatorial Sundial = Versailles 4/17/83. | signed "l'Ingénieur Mitaine Opticien fabricant." | Place Vendome No 2, Paris. | RSW. |
| PAINE, CHRISTOPHER | England, c.1590, MIM SIM | instrument maker; plane tables. | Hosier Lane, Smithfield, London. | Taylor 1(85); Evans 1. | |
| PAINE, JOHN | England, c.1689, | apprenticed to William Howe of the Grocers' Company on Aug. 5, 1689. | J. Brown 1. | ||
| POCHAINE, JOHN | England, c.1810, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 10/16/86 | signed "J. Pochaine Warranted"; may be the same as Pochine. | Dean Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. | Goodison 1; RSW. |
| RAINER FRISIUS | see Gemma Frisius. | Zinner 1. | |||
| ROUX, JOSEPH, FILS, AINE ET COMP. | France, c.1760, NIM | Hadley's Quadrant = PEA. | Joseph Roux, Fils, Aîné et Comp. | Le Port vers St. Jean, Marseilles. | RSW. |
| SAUTOUT L'AINE | France, c.1720, MIM | Sundials, Butterfield-type = Soth. 2/1/79 (silver), Soth. 12/12/55; Sundials = Evans Coll., Soth. 10/22/56, FIN-58; Sector = X. | Sautout l'aîné. | Paris. | Michel 3; Evans 1; RSW. |
| SAUVAGE, L.J., FILS AINE | Belgium, c.1850, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = USNM; Compass = van Alfen Coll. | the compass in the USNM is signed "L.J. Sauvage fils" and "Aîné à Liège." | Liège. | USNM; Hollands Glorie; RSW. |
| SCHELNSTAINER, FRITZ | Germany, c.1487, MIM | made sundials, 1487. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | |
| SEBELIN L'AINE | France, MIM | Sebelin l'aîné; first name might be Josue; sundial maker; is he the same as or related to Jean Sibelin? | RSW. | ||
| SHUTTLEWORTH, HENRY RAINES | England, c.1732-97, MIM OIM | Microscopes = Stevens' Auction Rooms 6/14/1782, Soth.3/25/86; Garden Sundial = P.C.(1987); Spyglass = D.(1985). | father of Henry Shuttleworth; apprenticed to John Cuff in the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1747; free of the Company in 1754; Master of the Company, 1782-87; took apprentices; see Shuttleworth. | at Sir Isaac Newton and Two Pairs of Golden Spectacles; The Old Mathematical Shop near the West End of St. Paul's (1791) (otherwise 23 Ludgate Street); both in London. | Taylor 2(537); Court and von Rohr 3(153); A.J. Turner 10; Robischon; Coffeen 9; Clay and Court; Goodison 1; Crawforth 1; RSW. |
| STAYNES/STAINES/STANES/STAGNES, JEOFFREY | England, c.1680, | apprenticed to George Ryley in the Lorimers' Company; turned over to Simon Chapman of the Clockmakers' Company. | J. Brown 3, Loomes. |
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