Petrus Belkmeer (1703 - 1763)

Field(s) of interest: scientific instruments | optics
Gender: male

Born: Medemblik, 1703
Died: Enschede, 1763

Biography:
Belkmeer worked in Enkhuizen as a surgeon. He also made microscopes.

Collection: Science Museum London (microscope, signed: ‘Petrus Belkmeer me fecit Enchusae Anno MDCCXXXII’).

Occupations:
surgeon and amateur microscoop maker: ~1732 (Enkhuizen)

Sources:
Dissertatio inauguralis (Harderwijk 1725)

Gorter, J. de. De perspiratione insensibili (Leiden 1736), Tab. III (gravure)

Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).