Adrianus de Koning ( - )

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




Biography:
Instrument maker from Amsterdam in Kalverstraat, corner Taksteeg. He made also instruments for the expedition of Kolb to the Cape.

Collection: According to the Museum Boerhaave documentation in 1953 a "graphometer", signed "Adr. de Koning Amsterdam Fecit" was in the possession of a certain Mr. Kaas.

Occupations:
Instrument maker: ~1704 (Amsterdam)

Sources:
Kuile, S. ter en W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, Amsterdamse kompasmaker ca. 1580-1850 (Amsterdam 1999).