Johann Joachim Becher. Line engraving by W. P. Kilian, 1675.

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Io. Ioach. Becheri, medici, chimici et polyhistoris celeberrimi effigies ad vivum delineata Viennae Austr. Anno 1675. Natus Spirae Nemetum circa a. c. 1635. Denatus Londini in Anglia. A(nn)o c. 1685. Lettering continues: Symb. fidem, famam, scientiam, / pecuniam, vitam: tranquillitatem ipse cura, / neque alias in hoc offende. The date of death has been altered by hand from 1685 to 1682.

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R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 220.2

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