Robert Beckit (fl. 1597-8) is known as both an engraver and mathematical instrument maker, following the same pattern as several of his better-known London contemporaries. At present only one surviving instrument is known, a sector dating from the year before the publication of Thomas Hood's book on the instrument. Beckit's engraving is equally poorly represented; the only known work being a set of 5 signed maps in Jan Huygen van Linschoten's Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies (London, 1598)..