Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet

Name: Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet
Brand: Yale University Press
SKU: 9780300075342
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Автор: Georgius Everhardus Rumphius

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Yale University Press

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G. E. Rumphius, also known as the "Indian Pliny," was one of the great tropical naturalists of the s...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1999

страници

672

EAN

9780300075342

ISBN

0300075340

Enbook ID

04573044

Издател

Yale University Press

Теглоt

1941

Размери

191 x 279 x 42

Пълно описание

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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