Paulus van Arnhem Claesz (1600 - 1650)

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

~1600
~1650

Biography:
Arnhem was a lens-grinder in seventeenth century Amsterdam, working for Constantijn Huygens Sr and Descartes. He is mentioned as lens-grinder in Christiaan Huygens, Oeuvres Completes, 1653, XVII.

Occupations:
optical instrument maker: 1630 - 1640 (Amsterdam)

Sources:
Zuidervaart, Huib, ‘The ‘invisible technician’ made visible. Telescope making in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Dutch Republic’ in: Alison D. Morrison-Low [et al] (eds.), From Earth-Bound to Satellite. Telescopes, Skills and Networks (Leiden/Boston: Brill 2012), 41-102, esp. 89.