Jacob Köbel, or Iacobus Kœbelius, (1462 – 31 January 1533) was a printer and

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in Oppenheim. Köbel was born in

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in 1462 and graduated in arts and law from Heidelberg University in July 1491. He appears to have then studied mathematics at

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, and is said to have been a fellow student of Copernicus there.R. M. Gascoigne, ''A chronology of the history of science 1450-1900'', Garland Pub., 1987, p.413. He learnt the publishing trade as editor and proofreader for Heinrich Knoblochtzer in

. On 8 May 1494, he married the daughter of Henrich zum Gelthus and settled there as secretary to the city council. He died on 31 January 1533 in Oppenheim, aged 70-71.

Works

* ''Geometrey'', 1498 *
Die Merfart vn[d
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erfarung nüwer Schiffung', 1509. (This work is the illustrated travelogue of Balthasar Springer, who traveled in the Portuguese colonial expedition to Goa in 1505-06.) * ''Elucidatio Fabricae Ususque Astrolabii'', 1513 *

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