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

1 print : engraving

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.

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

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