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Last Name Allen

Given Name Elias

alt. Names E. A. ;

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Year born 1588 c. in Tonbridge, England

Year died 1653

Place of death London, England

Father's occupation

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Education apprentice of the instrument maker Charles Whitwell ;

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for engraver in Edmund Gunter: De Sectore et Radio (London 1623) ;

Patronage British Kings James I & Charles I; Earl of Arundel; various members of the English aristocracy

Collaborators engraver ->Wenceslas Hollar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wenceslas_Hollar_-_Elias_Allen.jpg ;

Techniques technical, mathematical, and scientifical copperplate engraving ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, England; acc.no. 1026; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Allen

Published sources H. Higton: thesis (Cambridge 1996) ; Instruments and Illustration. Early Science and Medicine 18 (2013): 195f. ; H. K. Higton, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) ; Gerard L'Estrange Turner: Elizabethan Instrument Makers (Oxford 2000: 31-2) ;

other Primarily known as scientific instrument maker, mainly sundials & quadrants; set up business c.1610, first in "Blacke Horse-ally, neere Fleetbridge", then besides St.Clement Danes Church, Strand, London; cf. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244807.

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