Eberhard Gockel. Line engraving by P. Kilian, 1668, after A. Schuch.

  • Schuch, Andreas, 1600/1605-1686.
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1668
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3607i
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The print shows Gockel at the age of 32 in 1668. The lettering identifies him as having a doctorate in practical and theoretical physic from Ulm university and being physician to the town of Giengen an der Brenz, Baden-Württemberg

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1668

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1 print : engraving

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Lettering

Eberhardus Gockelius ulm. d. p. t. phys. reip. giengens. ordinar. Aetatis XXXII. MDCLXVIII. Andreas Schuech del. Philipp Kilian sculps. Lettering continues: Quisquis es, huc studio, spectator, lumina verte, / Gockeli facies perspicienda datur. / Gockeli; illius soboles germana periti / (Ulmae qui mors est mortis amica) viri. / Gockeli; medicas cui Phoebus porrigit herbas, / Giengae praecellens antidotum celebri. / Gockeli; cuius nulla est ars tanta, videndas / ingenii dotes quae posuisse queat. / In amoris non fucati / signum f. / Joh: Melchior Welschig D.

References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1147.1

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Wellcome Collection 3607i

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