The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Christoph Schissler (c.1531 - 1608)
Instrument maker and surveyer Other biography: https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/maker.php?MakerID=34 Relevant locations: Birth place in Augsburg, GermanyWorkplace or place of business Augsburg, Germany
References in Documents:
[Excerpts from Zacharias Uffenbach's diary of his visit to Oxford in 1710 in the company of his brother Johann Friedrich Uffenbach] a very valuable quadrant .
This is said to be of pure gold. There are many scales and calculators upon it, but rather badly engraved,
though the worthy Crab , to make it seem more costly, opined that the work was even more valuable than the material
from which the quadrant was made. I would sooner have had the gold myself. Had one had a little of the
badly worked gold, one could have purchased a more accurate article and a more useful one,
in plain brass-gilt. This quadrant is more than a Rhenish foot square and possibly six to
eight pounds in weight. The artist's name was on it,—Christophorus Schiffler Schissler , Geometricus ac Astronomicus
artifex Augustae Vindelicorum faciebat1579 .
At the present day we know how to make
them more conveniently and correctly.