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Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist
Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on
the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By
presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple uses, he
succeeded in creating a cultural and scientific treasury of
incomparable value for today's botanists, anthropologists,
ethnobotanists, science historians, medicinal chemists, and other
scholars. This comprehensive reference, complete with over 800
original illustrations, describes in remarkable detail more than
2,000 plants, their habitats, and their economic and medicinal
uses. Also recorded are native plant names in Malay, Latin, Dutch,
and Ambonese-and often in Macassarese and Chinese as well. E. M.
Beekman's introduction discusses the Herbal's significance for
tropical botanical literature and surveys the Indonesian economic
and medicinal uses of the plants Rumphius described. Beekman also
provides invaluable annotations throughout the Herbal. Copublished
with the National Tropical Botanical Garden
Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist
Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on
the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By
presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple uses, he
succeeded in creating a cultural and scientific treasury of
incomparable value for today's botanists, anthropologists,
ethnobotanists, science historians, medicinal chemists, and other
scholars. This comprehensive reference, complete with over 800
original illustrations, describes in remarkable detail more than
2,000 plants, their habitats, and their economic and medicinal
uses. Also recorded are native plant names in Malay, Latin, Dutch,
and Ambonese-and often in Macassarese and Chinese as well. E. M.
Beekman's introduction discusses the Herbal's significance for
tropical botanical literature and surveys the Indonesian economic
and medicinal uses of the plants Rumphius described. Beekman also
provides invaluable annotations throughout the Herbal. Copublished
with the National Tropical Botanical Garden
G. E. Rumphius, also known as the "Indian Pliny," was one of the
great tropical naturalists of the seventeenth century. Born in
Germany, he spent most of his life in the employ of the Dutch East
India Company, stationed on the island of Ambon in eastern
Indonesia. He wrote two major works; this one, the first modern
work on tropical fauna, was published posthumously in Dutch in
1705. A classic text of natural history, it is now available in
English for the first time.
The descriptions in "The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet cover "the
gamut of organisms found in the seas surrounding Ambon--crabs,
shrimp, sea urchins, mussels--as well as minerals and rare
concretions taken from animals and plants. A series of exquisite
etchings accompanies the descriptions. The book has been
masterfully translated and extensively annotated by E. M. Beekman,
whose introduction provides the first biography of Rumphius in
English that incorporates new material.
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