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Last Name Eisenhoit / Eisenhout

Given Name Anton

alt. Names A. E. ; Eisenhaut / Eisenhut / Eisenhodt / Antoni Eisenhout / Iserenhodt / Antonie / Antonius ;

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Year born 1553/1554 Warburg-Altstadt, Paderborn

Year died 1603

Place of death Warburg

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Education apprenticeship in Rome

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for mathematician, astronomer, and instrument-maker Jost Bürgi ; Landgraf Wilhelm IV of Kassel ; Michele Mercati : Metallotheca Vaticana (1717/19) ; Benjamin Bramer: Bericht (1648) ;

Patronage papal court,, Rome (until 1581) ; Popes Pius V & Clement XI; papal physician Giov. M. Lancisi; Count Wilhelm IV of Kassel

Collaborators draftsman S. Conca ; draftsman J. Freij ; draftsman -> Ägidius Sadeler (1619) , draftsman Benjamin Bramer: Appolonius cattus ( c. 1648) ;

Techniques astronomical and technical copperplate engraving ; instrument-making ; celestial globes; drawing ;

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Eisenhoit ; http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonius_Eisenhoit

Archival sources

Published sources L. Mackensen: Erste Sternwarte Europas (Munich 1982: 8, 33, 37, 67 & 80f. ; Bryan's Dict.; ADB 48 1904: 317–322 ; Anna Maria Kesting: A. E. 1964 ; Davidson 2008: 10-11 & 18 ;

other Since 1585 Warburg-Altstadt, Paderborn, Westfalia.

Further techniques: goldsmith, clock-driven armillary sphere; celestial globes .

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