Jacob Köbel

Jacob Köbel (1462-1533) was a printer and publisher in Oppenheim.

Köbel graduated in arts and law from Heidelberg University in 1491. He appears to have then studied mathematics at Cracow, and is said to have been a fellow student of Copernicus there.[1] He learnt the publishing trade as editor and proofreader for Heinrich Knoblochtzer in Heidelberg. 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
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gollark: <@356209633313947648> Stock exchanges have been, well, started on before, never really finished.
gollark: It would be complex to do, but extremely cool.
gollark: The neural interface could presumably detect which computer it's looking at with lots of weird raytracey stuff, and then you could ask that computer to stream its terminal to you.
gollark: You probably could, assuming the computers opted into your system.

References
  1. R. M. Gascoigne, A chronology of the history of science 1450-1900, Garland Pub., 1987, p.413.
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