"Thomas Rückert (scientific instrument maker; goldsmith/metalworker; German; Male; c.1575 - c.1581; active)
Also known as: Rückert, Thomas
Biography: Instrument maker Thomas Rückert from Augsburg is known as the maker of a number of hodometers in about 1575 at the request of August I, the Elector of Saxony. In 1581 he received a privilege from the Holy Roman Emperor for his hodometer. The design of his instruments was copied by other instrument makers such as Erasmus Habermel.
Bibliography: Mario Biagioli, From Print to Patents: Living on Instruments in Early Modern Europe, History of Science 44 (2006), pp.139-186, esp. 142-3.
EPACT [www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/maker.php?MakerID=103]
Zinner 1967, pp.239, 331 and 604." - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=80691, 30.12.2017
GND unter Thomas Rucker: "Lebensdaten: 1532-1606 (Geburtsjahr ca.), Handwerker", 30.12.2017
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