Wilhelm Janson ( - )

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




Biography:
Instrument maker who made a large cartwheel astrolabe for Adrian Metius, who was a professor at the University of Franeker. He was active between 1600 and 1650.

Occupations:
instrument maker: ~1600 - 1650

Sources:
Gunther, R.W.T. The astrolabes of the world : based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans collection in the old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford : with notes on astrolables in the collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir J. Findlay, Mr. S.V. Hoffman, the Mensing collection, and in other public and private collections (London 1976).