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| Signature | Maker Info | Instruments | Comments | Location | References |
| ALBERTI, ANGELO | England, fl.1822-25, PHIM | made barometers. | Fargate, Sheffield. | Goodison 1. | |
| ANGELI, MICHAELIS | Italy, 1812, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, paper, wood, 1812 = P.C. | "Michaelis Angeli a Nero Capuccini"; a Capuchin. | Nero. | Price 2. |
| ANGELO, A. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | see Dangelo and Cadenazzi. | Winchester. | Goodison 1. |
| ANGELO, ALBERTI | England, fl.1822, PHIM | made barometers. | Fargate, Sheffield. | Taylor 2(1475a). | |
| BELLANI, ANGELO | Italy, c.1835, PHIM | Thermographs = FLO-1794 (1835), FLO-2025. | Bonelli 1. | ||
| CADGELL, THOMAS | England, c.1682, MIM | apprenticed for eight years to William Elmes of the Clockmakers' Company on June 3, 1682. | J. Brown 3. | ||
| CAMPONOVO, ANGELO | England, c.1846, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X(2), Christie-SK 6/24/88. | one X signed "Camponovo Summers Town, Oxon."; the other X and Christie-SK signed "Camponovo Oxford." | St. Thomas's Parish, Oxford. | Goodison 1; RSW. |
| CINGELING, HK. VAN | Holland, c.1805, MIM | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1. | ||
| CINGELING, WEDUWE HK. VAN | Holland, c.1809, MIM | succeeded her husband, HK. van Cingeling. | Achterburgwal, vis-à-vis le Bloemmarktsteeg, Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1. | |
| DANGELO AND CADENAZZI | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Winchester. | Goodison 1. | |
| DANGELO, G. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Basingstoke. | Goodison 1. | |
| DEREGNI, ANGELO | Italy, 18th Century, OIM | Telescopes, pasteboard and horn = ADL-M449, P.C., Soth. 10/28/86; Telescope, vellum and paper = D. | Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW; Brieux 2. | ||
| ENGELBERT | Czechoslovakia, MIM | Sundial, square = Hammer. | probably Engelbrecht. | Braune. | RSW. |
| ENGELBRECHT, ANTON | Czechoslovakia, fl.1825-29, MIM | Analemmatic Sundials = D.(1825), CZJ (1829); Inclinable Sundial, 1825 = PRA. | Melnik. | Horsky and Skopova; Zinner 1; Fischer 2; RSW. | |
| ENGELBRECHT, JOHANN 1 | Czechoslovakia, fl.1680-1702, MIM | Nocturnals = SPI (1684), HAK; Analemmatic Sundials = LIE (1680), Weimar Schloss Museum (1680); Azimuth Sundials = SPI (1681) = PRN, SPI (1684) = PRN; Table Sundials = ROU (1683) = VIE, LIN; Horizontal Sundials = P.C., SPI, MIL; Astronomical Clock = HAM. | Price thought there might be only one Johann Engelbrecht. | Brünn. | Zinner 1; Price 2; Fischer 2; Michel 1 and 3; Horsky and Skopova; Nachet; Ernst. |
| ENGELBRECHT, JOHANN 2 | Czechoslovakia, fl.1776-1804, MIM | made many brass horizontal, inclinable sundials dating from 1776 to 1804; examples may be seen at DEU, TGM, NUR, DRE, ADL, NYC, ZAG, PRA, MUN, STU, KEN, WHI, OXF, POTS, RSM, LIE, Huelsmann Coll., etc. | many of the instruments listed above have a notch in the gnomon to show the time of year; he is thought to have invented this type. | Brünn. | Zinner 1; Basserman-Jordan 1; Fischer 2; Horsky and Skopova; Price 3 and 12; Ward 3 and 4; Whipple 1; KEN; Chenekal 1; Coffeen G; Bryden 16; Syndram; ADL; RSW. |
| ENGELBRECHT, P. | Czechoslovakia, 1791, MIM | Armillary Sphere Clock, 1791 = PRA. | Seige. | Czech. Inv. | |
| ENGELHARDT, JOHANN | Germany, MIM | Sundial, portable = FIT. | Zinner 1; Gunther 3. | ||
| ENGELL, LEONHART CHRISTIAN VON | Germany, 1688, MIM | Squadra Mobile = FRA. | RSW. | ||
| ENGELMANN, G. | Germany, 1696, MIM | Celestial Globe = ZIT. | Meffersdorf. | Zinner 1. | |
| ENGELS | Holland, MIM | Rule = MLL. | Amsterdam. | RSW. | |
| ENGELSE, VAN | Holland, MIM | Horizontal Sundial = UTR; Magnetic Azimuth Sundial = UTR. | de Rijk. | ||
| GELB, JOHAN WOLFGANG | Germany, 1599-1632+, MIM SIM | Artillery Alidade with Inclinometer = Soth. 2/26/62 = USNM. | accepted into the Guild of Smiths as a small clockmaker in 1625; last child born in 1632; instrument signed "Johan Wolf Gelb me fecit Ulm." | Ulm. | Bedini 4; Price 2; RSW. |
| GELDER, BEERT JOHANNES | Holland, d.1828, MIM OIM PHIM | made sundials, microscopes, telescopes, barometers, thermometers, and clocks; father of Rinse Beerts Gelder. | Hallum; Beetgum. | Rooseboom 1. | |
| GELDER, RINSE BEERTS | Holland, 1794-1857, MIM OIM | Compass, pocket = Frisian Marine Museum, Leeuwarden. | son of Beerts Johannes Gelder; made telescopes; clockmaker. | Beetgum; Menaldum. | Rooseboom 1; Mörzer Bruyns 2. |
| GELIN, E. | France, 1603, MIM | Sundial, slate, 1603 = P.C.(1964). | Vallo (Vallon?). | Ant. Hor. Soc. Exhib., 1964. | |
| GELLIBRAND, HENRY | England, 1597-1636, MIM | Wall Sundial = Library, Trinity College, Oxford. | author; designed instruments; wrote on magnetic deviation. | London; Oxford; London. | Taylor 1(138); Evans 1; DNB; DSB. |
| GUARNERIO, ANGELO | England, fl.1839-50, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | jeweler and silversmith. | Sheep Market, St. Ives. | Goodison 1; Bell 2. |
| HIRSCHVOGEL, AUGUSTIN | Germany, 1503-53, MIM | Surveying Instruments in wooden box = X. | made for the city of Vienna and delivered in 1594. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1. |
| KOEDIJK, ENGELB | Holland, c.1817, MIM OIM PHIM | Kalverstraat bij de Bagijnenhofsteeg, Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | ||
| LANSUERG, ANGELUS | Italy, | misreading for Lusuerg. | Evans 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. |
| 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. | |
| MAGELLAN, J.H. DE AND FIERI | England, MIM | London. | COO notes, 1968; RSW. | ||
| MAGELLAN, JEAN HYACINTHE DE | Portugal; France; England, 1723-90, NIM | Repeating Circle = NMM. | invented a type of repeating circle; made Gowin Knight's compasses with George Adams 2; took out a patent for an improvement for the barometer with Henry Pyefinch in 1765; agent for some London instrument makers; F.R.S. | Paris; London (by 1765). | Taylor 2(378); DNB; Middleton 1; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. |
| MASCAGNE, DANGELO | Italy, PHIM | Measure = Koller 11/7/63. | Certosino. | RSW. | |
| MEGELE | France, MIM | Compass Sundial, round = Soth. 5/10/54. | Vienne. | RSW. | |
| MEGELE, JOSEPH | Italy, 1775, OIM | mechanician at the Milan Observatory, 1775. | Milan. | Daumas 1. | |
| 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. |
| NEGRETTI, ENRICO ANGELO LUDOVICO | see Henry Negretti. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(2194); Bell 2. | |||
| PETRALI, ANGELO | c.1820, NIM | Octant, ebony, ivory and brass = Christie 5/10/83. | RSW. | ||
| PREGELL, THOMAS | Germany, fl.1617-29, MIM | Astrolabe, 1629 = VIE (ICA-560); Diptych Sundial, 1617 = Greppin Coll. = Koller 11/17/75; Sundial, ivory, 1619 = AMST; Sundial, 1617 = de Longrée Coll; Diptych Sundial = P.C.; Sundials = Fremersdorf Coll. (1623), BRE (1629). | alternative spelling was "Prögel." | Nürnberg (1617); Zwickau. | Zinner 1; Gunther 1; Michel 2; Price 1; Mörzer Bruyns 1; GHD; RSW. |
| PROGEL | Prögel see Pregell. | Michel 3. | |||
| RANNOY, P. GELASIUS VISCHER | Germany, 1712, MIM | Sundial, stone, 1712 = DEU. | Price 2. | ||
| RAWBENGEL, HANS | Germany, 1487, MIM | made sundials, 1487. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | |
| RINGELBERGH, JOACHIM STERCK VAN | Antwerp, fl.1499-1536, MIM | he was reported to have made a ring sundial. | Ringelberg. | Zinner 1. WEBDB. | |
| SAEGELKEN, JOHN HINRH. | Germany, MIM NIM | Compasses = BRE, D.(1983); Compass Card = BRE. | Bremen. | Coffeen C; RSW. | |
| SINGELING | see Cingeling. | Rooseboom 1. | |||
| SPIEGEL, JOHANN | Germany, c.1705, MIM | Cube Sundial, wood,1705 = Drecker Coll. = DPW; Pillar Sundial, wood = Drecker Coll. = DPW; Cube Sundial = Pressburg Museum. | Lindau. | Zinner 1. | |
| SPINGEL, JOHAN JOACHIM | Germany, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial = GEL. | it is possible that this is Johann Spiegel, which see. | RSW. | |
| STRIGEL | Holland, pre-1745, MIM | Rule, with case = D.(1993). | scale on each side, "Pouc. d. Roy", "Pouc. de Rhyn", "Antwerp Fer Calibre" and "Antwerp Piere Putre"; signed "Strigel a la Hay" and "Nicolas Mercator 1745", owner; both "ys" have an umlaut over them; see J.C. Strigelius. | The Hague. | Coffeen 43. |
| STRIGELIUS, J.C. | Germany, 1742, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1742 = DES. | with compass and level; see Strigel. | Crailsheim. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; DES Cat. |
| TAGLIABUE, ANGELO | England, fl.1829-48, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | partner with Anthony Tagliabue, 1829-31, as A. and A. Tagliabue, which see; barometer is signed "A. Tagliabue 19 Leather Lane." | 11 Brook Street, Holborn (1829-33); 19 Leather Lane (1835-40); 91 Leather Lane (1841-44); 3 Charles Street, Hatton Garden (1845-48); all in London. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(2261). |
| TOREY, ANGELO | England, c.1830, MIM | Salisbury. | Taylor 2(2030). | ||
| TORNAGHI, ANGELO | England; Australia, fl.1850-64, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Surveyor's Level and Compass = Soth. 4/18/88. | "optical and mathematical instrument maker to the Surveyor General Department Observatory, etc."; worked with Negretti and Zambra. | London (1858); 28 Bridge Street, Sydney (1861); 312 George Street, two doors from Hunter Street, Sydney, (1864). | RSW. |
| TORRICELLI, EVANGELISTA | Italy, 1608-47, MIM OIM PHIM | mathematician, and briefly a pupil of Galileo; Torricelli's work with air pressure led to his invention of the mercury barometer. | Florence. | G.L'E. Turner 24; Middleton 1; A.J. Turner 10; Daumas 1 | |
| VISCHER, GELASIUS | Germany, 1712, MIM | Horizontal Table Sundial, chalk stone, 1712 = DEU. | Raunou. | Zinner 1. | |
| VOGEL, J.H. | Switzerland, | "J.H. Vogel delineavit" is marked on a horary quadrant made by Johann Meylin. | Zinner 1. | ||
| WEGELIN, BARTHOLOMAEUS | Switzerland, 1683-1750, | author; wrote on cosmography and armillary spheres. | St. Gallen. | Michel 3. | |
| WEGELIN, JOSUA | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Sundial on table clock = Auction, Munich 1933. | Augsburg. | Michel 3. | |
| WEIGEL, ERHARD | Germany, 1625-99, MIM | Celestial Globes inside Armillary Spheres, 1699 = BASH, KAS, Breslau Universitäts Sternwarte, NUR, etc.; Globe, silver with coat-of-arms and weather vane = MUN; Celestial Globes, 1699 = NMM, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. (copper); Terrestrial Globe, 1699 = FLO; Celestial Globe = FLO. | author; wrote on globes. | Jena. | Zinner 1; Price 2; Yonge; RSW. |
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