Jacob Köbel (1462–1533) was a

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and

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Oppenheim Oppenheim () is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The town is a well-known wine center, being the home of the German Winegrowing Museum, and is particularly known for the wines from the Oppenheimer Krötenbru ...

. Köbel graduated in arts and law from

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in 1491. He appears to have then studied mathematics at Cracow, and is said to have been a fellow student of

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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

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. In 1494 he married a woman from Oppenheim and settled there as secretary to the city council.

Works

* ''Geometrey'', 1498 * ''Elucidatio Fabricae Ususque Astrolabii'', 1513 *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kobel, Jakob 1462 births 1533 deaths German printers German publishers (people)