Prospero Alpino. Line engraving by R. Blokhuysen.

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On the table before him are an armillary sphere and some books: volumes entitled "De plantis Aegyptior[um] [....] & exoticis" (i.e. his De plantis Aegypti liber, Venice 1592, and his De plantis exoticis libro duo, Venice 1627) and "De praesagienda vita & morte" (i.e. his De praesagienda vita et morte aegrotantium, libri septem, Frankfurt 1601)

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Prosper Alpinus Marosticensis ph. & med. ac professor medicinae Patavinus. R. Blokhuysen fecit.

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R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 57.1

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Wellcome Collection 5015i

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