Humfray Cole[1] (died 1591)[2] was an English maker of scientific instruments and engraver.
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Cole was, according to his own description, a native of the north of England. From his employment at the mint and the general character of his work he appears to have been a mechanician.[3]Edward Dyer acted as his patron, and he was commended as artisan by Gabriel Harvey.[4]
For the second edition of the Bishops' Bible, published in 1572, he engraved a map of Palestine, as Canaan, thought to be based on a 1557 map by Tilemann Stella or Stoltz.[5] On it he describes himself as "Humfray Cole, goldsmith, an Englishman born in ye north and pertayning to ye Mint in the Tower, 1572."[3]
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