Erasmus Habermehl
Illustration — Meridiane, 1580 ca. Erasmus Habermehl, also Erasmus Habermel (ca. 1538 – 15 November 1606 in Prague) was a major watchmaker and maker of astronomical and geodetical instruments, who last worked as a court instrument maker at the court of Emperor Rudolf II. In Prague. • Illustration — Habermehls Sextant in National Technical Museum (Prague) He probably originated in southern Germany and probably reached Prague via Nuremberg, the centre of watchmaking art at the time.
Erasmus Habermehl
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- Born
- Erasmus Habermehl was born in 1538. · Nuremberg.
- Died
- Erasmus Habermehl died on 15 November 1606. · Prague.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- watchmaker · instrument maker · mechanic
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Meridiane, 1580 ca. Erasmus Habermehl, also Erasmus Habermel (ca. 1538 – 15 November 1606 in Prague) was a major watchmaker and maker of astronomical and geodetical instruments, who last worked as a court instrument maker at the court of Emperor Rudolf II. In Prague. • Illustration — Habermehls Sextant in National Technical Museum (Prague) He probably originated in southern Germany and probably reached Prague via Nuremberg, the centre of watchmaking art at the time.
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Erasmus Habermehl (1538–1606) was a German instrument maker, mechanic and precision mechanic, among other activities. Born in Nuremberg, the instrument maker died in Prague.
Languages used include German. Works by Erasmus Habermehl are held at Deutsches Museum, Het Scheepvaartmuseum and Maritime Museum Rotterdam, among others.
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Erasmus Habermehl is recorded as watchmaker, instrument maker and mechanic.
Exhibit in the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon (Zwinger), Dresden, Germany. This artwork is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.
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1538
Erasmus Habermehl born at Nuremberg.
1606
Erasmus Habermehl died at Prague.
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Erasmus Habermehl was born at Nuremberg.
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Erasmus Habermehl died at Prague.
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A brass box signed "Erasmus Habermel Pragae 1576" is considered his earliest known work. He married a Susanna Solis there in 1593 or 1594. In the same year he was appointed "Kay: Mt: Astronomischer und Geometrischer Instrumentmacher". He received commissions from Tycho Brahe and Francesco Padua di Forli, the personal physician (and at the same time alchimist) of the emperor. In addition to their outstanding technical precision, his instruments were at the same time artistic, objects of the highest order designed in the style of the Renaissance. František Martin Pelcl reported 1782 in the Illustrations of Bohemian and Moravian scholars and artists together with short news about their life and work of instruments at the imperial court in Prague: "Of Habermel, a Bohemian mechanicus, are here still present 1) – Tycho Brahe's sextant. 2) – some sundials. 3) Some astrolabes, where the former magnetic declination for which in 1558 four pieces decreases quite exactly 10° to the east -[..]" (141 and 142).
Habermehl Rock in Antarctica is named after Erasmus Habermehl.
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- 1.Reinhard Glasemann: Erde, Sonne, Mond & Sterne. In Schriften des Historischen Museums, No. 20. Frankfurt/M 1999, , .
- 2.Ralf Kern: Wissenschaftliche Instrumente in ihrer Zeit. Volume 1. Vom Astrolab zum mathematischen Besteck. .
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